Some good insights on reputation management in the era of Web 2.0 appeared recently in IR Magazine’s blog: In “Stay Awake Online” (August 15), IR correspondent Tim Human notes that investors are increasingly scouring the Web to learn about companies – and can be swayed by attack posts on blogs, nasty YouTube videos and the like. He adds:
But companies can fight back against negative publicity online, with the right know-how. The 2009 Search Marketing Benchmark Guide by MarketingSherpa explains how a major bank reacted to a highly ranked site attacking its reputation.
The bank contacted other sites linked to the negative one and got them to de-link, lowering its importance to search engines like Google. In addition, the bank added lots of search-optimized content to its own site – like blogs, videos and press releases – to fill up more of the top spaces in search listings. As a result, the offending site was knocked from the top page of results.
Tags: Banking, Media relations, Reputation, Web 2.0, Websites
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