[Shawn Collins]

I've got a friend who wants to push down a negative Google result for his name.

What are your favorite third party sites that tend to rank well?

In looking at results for my name, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Quora, and paper.li accounts are ranking well.

I was also thinking of Pinterest, Tumblr, MySpace, Meetup.com, Yelp, about.me, foursquare, posterous

Others anybody has seen index well?

[PatrickAllmond]

Why are people willing to consider "Reputation Management" companies (really SEO companies) but against things like massive link building and other greyhat areas. Reputation mgmt seems grey hat to me.

Patrick

Shawn Collins, on 15 February 2012 - 05:22 PM, said:

I've got a friend who wants to push down a negative Google result for his name.

What are your favorite third party sites that tend to rank well?

In looking at results for my name, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Quora, and paper.li accounts are ranking well.

I was also thinking of Pinterest, Tumblr, MySpace, Meetup.com, Yelp, about.me, foursquare, posterous

Others anybody has seen index well?

[Shawn Collins]

PatrickAllmond, on 16 February 2012 - 03:39 AM, said:

Why are people willing to consider "Reputation Management" companies (really SEO companies) but against things like massive link building and other greyhat areas. Reputation mgmt seems grey hat to me.

Patrick

I'd say it all comes down to how it is done - I think unless you're paying a company in perpetuity to manage reputation, the results they've gotten indexed will fade when they stop. In that case, the customer is getting gamed.

If reputation management is a matter of actively maintaining a series of social networking and other sites to dominate the SERPs, I don't see anything wrong with it.

I produce real, unique content in a variety of venues to better penetrate the results, and don't see how that would be construed as grey hat.

[Vinny OHare]

Flickr - slideshare - manta.com. I could go on all day but then I would have to charge

[Shawn Collins]

Vinny OHare, on 16 February 2012 - 04:01 AM, said:

Flickr - slideshare - manta.com. I could go on all day but then I would have to charge

Thanks, not sure if Flickr and Slideshare will work in this instance, but I never heard of manta.com - I need to play around there.

[Vinny OHare]

Doesn't have to work just create an empty account and it will fill in the top 10 spots. Heck create two or three accounts and use the keyword besides the name that they are being found for.

[Shawn Collins]

A little update... I started this last Friday on everything, and I'm seeing nice progress.

Here are the things I've gotten ranked in the top 20 so far:

#2 - domain with a WP blog in his name
#7 - LinkedIn
#8 - Quora
#10 - Wordpress.com blog
#11 - YouTube
#12 - paper.li
#14 - Tumblr
#15 - Pinterest
#17 - individual post from his domain
#19 - Google+
#20 - Twitter

Picasa, Facebook, Flickr and Meetup are on the move.

[Viksn]

You may use special software. There are some sites that provide something like reputation management. I know about strategator.com- it's able to give official information and Internet rumors.

[KushAtVMInnovations]

Shawn Collins, on 22 February 2012 - 04:08 PM, said:

A little update... I started this last Friday on everything, and I'm seeing nice progress.

Here are the things I've gotten ranked in the top 20 so far:

#2 - domain with a WP blog in his name
#7 - LinkedIn
#8 - Quora
#10 - Wordpress.com blog
#11 - YouTube
#12 - paper.li
#14 - Tumblr
#15 - Pinterest
#17 - individual post from his domain
#19 - Google+
#20 - Twitter

Picasa, Facebook, Flickr and Meetup are on the move.

Here a few more:

wappow.com (create a username with targeted keyword)
Slideshare (already mentioned)
sites.google.com/site/"keywordhere"
profiles.google.com/googleprofile+ "keyword title"
last.fm/user/"keyword here" (username= targeted keyword)
Etsy.com

Hope this helps

This post has been edited by KushAtVMInnovations: 09 April 2012 - 02:46 PM