Reputation Management Online

Some industries bring inevitably more challengers for reputation management, much of it depends on how active the industry is online.  Take software, web design or SEO these industries naturally do a lot of their business and work on the net.  With loads of forums and groups it's very easy to get a negative or bad reputation with so many people writing content and pages on line.

It's because of this that we will often need to do some research into a company or industry before we price up SEO or reputation management.

Another big influence is how many customers your business has, if you run a hotel you are more likely to have a lot more customers talking about you than say a garage does.  Because of this, there is more likely just because of the law of averages to be negative content on the net.

Another big factor is how competitive is the market, often negative driven websites make money through advertising so they encourage people to right negative content.  Sites like wiki and Rip Off Report make it very easy for people to get pages ranking well in Google.