Sunday, February 19, 2012

Self-Protection From Negative Publicity

Reverse search engines are vital tools in the field of online reputation management. Business houses and other organizations often become victims of negative publicity. This can be caused by anonymous blogs created by aggrieved customers, immoral competitors or others who are vindictive towards them for various reasons. When this type of blogs and pages start to make ranking in Google, Yahoo etc customers who happen to see those contents will have a wrong impression about the company and its products or services.

Thus the negative propaganda can vitiate the business prospects of a company. The only way to prevent erosion of online reputation of the company is to push off these pages to fourth or fifth page of google so that they cannot grab the attention of the viewers easily. Surfing through google and yahoo is quite common with all potential customers so that any vitiating contents in the opening pages will have the worst impact. However, those who go beyond the third page of google are very less and hence pushing the harmful pages beyond the fourth page is quite sufficient to safeguard the interest of the company. The information found in the first page of google has naturally the highest credibility and hence by pushing the negative press out of the first page is almost like keeping it out of sight.

Thus reverse search engines are vital aspects of the damage control exercise. The authority of a website within the search terms is a deciding factor for google ranking. The page of a web having better authority can easily gain the ranking. When such a page carries vitiating content against the organization it can bring serious damage to the reputation of the company. The new strategy is evolved to effectively prevent this kind of victimization. Various tools are used by professionals of this field in order to get rid of the negative propaganda. They ensure to keep those pages practically invisible by suppressing them off the opening pages.

In case, the negative publicity is ignored or not dealt with in the proper way, it will gain very high ranking in google and when they attain the positions of highly ranked pages, they will attract links. With more number of links, they become too difficult to throw out of visibility. Hence it will be always better to nip them in the bud so that they will not get deep rooted. When there is very tough competition in the market it is all the more important to remain on the frontline.

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