If you are here, or living on this planet for that matter, you probably already know who Google is. They are the 900 pound gorilla dominating online search. If you are having a reputation problem, it’s probably also true that it lies within the Google search result pages.

Here are some current Google search statistics; in February 2010 an estimated 6.0 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 65.2 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.

In a month. One month. To boil that down it is over 7.5 million searches per hour. A whopping 128,000 searches per minute. An astounding 2134 searches per second. Yup, that’s power my friends. An awful lot of searches going through their system at any given second, and they are getting more and more of the search market each and every day. Projections suggest that by this time next year Google will be doing close to 10 billion searches per month.

So what does all this mean when it comes to your reputation online? › Continue reading…

It’s a fair question, and I’m sure that there are a ton of new clients, and a few of our competitors, that would love to know what search terms people use to find our website and ultimately our web reputation management services.

So I thought I’d put up a list of search terms users have used that have brought them to this site. The following keyword and key phrase list is not complete, and a few duplicate terms, as well as some that have our clients names in them, have been removed. This list includes searches done on all the most common search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, etc.

Here’s the list: › Continue reading…

This is usually how it all starts. With one little search. A search that reveals something terrible. A terrible review from a customer about one of your products or services. Right there on page one of the Google search results. There for everyone to see.

Maybe it’s a product review site, a personal blog, Ripoff Report, whatever. It could be one of many, and it really doesn’t matter. Because negative press on page one search results is a bad thing. Never mind that it may not be true, never mind that it might not even be a customer of yours. It’s there, and for most that do nothing, it is likely going to stay there. For a long, long time. Hurting your sales, your staff, your current clients and affecting how you do business for a long time to come. › Continue reading…