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How To Block Internet Ad Tracking and Maintain Your Online Privacy

Everyone should know that many aspects of your online behavior are visible to others. This data is essential for all businesses with a presence on the Web; it enables them to determine how, where, and when to attract your attention, thus leading to smarter, targeted, and increasingly personalized Internet marketing. As more and more commercial entities turn to the Internet for customers, those potential customers unwittingly share personal information with a vast array of online parties through HTTP cookies.

How To Find Out Who is Searching for You Online

If you’ve ever Googled yourself to discover more about your online reputation, then you may have wondered if others are doing the same. A recent AVG study showed that more than 90 percent of babies under the age of two have already developed an online presence. Given the data, electronic privacy is even more important now than it ever has been. This article examines how to discover if people are looking for you online. It will also teach you to protect your electronic privacy and manage your online reputation so that you control what people find when they search for you on the Internet.

Google your way to a better online reputation

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

 

Not everyone will admit that they Google themselves. It can sound kind of vain. But most people really do want to know what's being said about them.

It makes sense. Who wouldn't want to eavesdrop on the collective consciousness? Plus, we know that potential employers, customers and even dates are using it to form opinions about us, so it's smart to find out what the word on the street is.

With any luck, you'll like what you see. For many people, it's a showcase of their most noteworthy accomplishments: awards won, articles written, donations to charity, affiliations with upstanding organizations. Some people's results are dominated by their contributions to social media, including blog posts they've written or YouTube videos they've created (which can be good or bad, depending on what you've put out there).

Unfortunately, for some people, Google unearths unflattering profiles, bad reviews, or even slanderous content. Maybe you crossed the wrong blogger. Maybe you have a more serious PR problem. Heck, maybe you're in the mafia. Sometimes, there's information out there that isn't even true.

If you don't like what you see, at least you'll have some insight as to why you didn't get a second interview or why that girl never called you back. The first step towards improving your online reputation is knowing you have a problem!

What sorts of unexpected things have you found looking yourself up on Google or Bing?

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Perception is reality in the Internet age

The adage “perception is reality” has never been more true than when you consider online reputation management (ORM). If you are one of the many who has spent years building your personal brand or business and cultivating a positive Internet reputation, you should be confident that your customer base is by and large happy.

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Shelly Wutke

Find out which people-search websites and databases have your personal info

As most people know, using the Internet can be one of the fastest ways to find the information you need. Unfortunately, it can also be the fastest way for other people and businesses to find out information about you. With more than 200 data brokerage services and people-search websites on the Internet, most people are amazed at how much of their personal information is exposed to potentially prying eyes. Have you ever wondered how much of your personal information is readily available on the Internet?

How to use Blekko to manage your online reputation

Developing an online reputation management (ORM) campaign can be tricky. It’s not always easy to determine why certain topics remain attached to your personal brand while others disappear. That’s where Blekko, a novel, human-curated search engine, can help you refine your digital PR efforts.

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How to get your blog noticed by Google blog search

As with all search technology, Google blog search is a double-edged sword. On one hand you can say whatever you want on your blog, and anybody can create one by signing up with free services like Blogger or WordPress. That’s a lot of self-empowerment potential right there.

How to get your name to the top of Google and other search engines

People frequently form opinions from information they find through search engines, often without considering the validity of the content they read. Did you know that the first three results in the first page of a Google search get 79 percent of all clicks? Are you aware that as few as 10 percent of people go beyond the first page of search results? This article describes how to get your name to the top of Google in order to build a better internet reputation.

How to influence Google Suggest and protect your online reputation

Several years ago, Google added the “Google Suggest” feature to their popular search engine. Attempting to intuitively complete your search phrase as you type, Google Suggest was designed to help people search more efficiently. It can save some typing, help you with spelling and suggest better search phrases. It uses complicated algorithms, so it’s difficult to determine just what Google is using to make this feature work.

Three must-have social networking sites for online reputation management

These days it’s practically impossible not to use social media. Whether you’re keeping in touch with friends and family on Facebook, connecting with current and former colleagues on LinkedIn or sharing your personal opinions with the world on your very own blog, new media tools have changed the way we communicate and become an integral component of our daily lives.

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