June 1, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

20 SEO plugins for Google Chrome part 1

As the latest statistics shows Google Chrome is becoming more and more popular. And indeed, this browser is fast, minimalistic and has some unique style that attracts people. In addition it already has a great variety of extensions available for a free download and this amount grows on a daily basis. So today we are going to review the extensions that primarily will be useful for webmasters and search engine optimization (SEO) specialists. We would like to mention that it doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to install all the extensions mentioned below. You can just try them out and choose the ones that suit your needs and preferences the most for your everyday SEO tasks. Taking into consideration that posting all 20 extensions with descriptions would make this article extremely long and not quite easy to read we decided to divide it in two parts.

So here is the first 10 of the best 20 SEO extensions for Google Chrome:

1. SeoQuake – in our opinion this is one of the best SEO related extensions for Google Chrome. This extension is able to show lots of SEO parameters like Google PageRank (PR), Alexa rank, external links at Yahoo and much more information. But most important SeoQuake integrates seamlessly and displaying all this information right in the search results. Download SeoQuake.

2. SeoQuake Lite – if you need the lite version of the above extension then SeoQuake Lite is definitely your choice. This extension shows only the most important information about the webpage like Google PageRank and Alexa Rank. SeoQuake Lite is very similar to SearchStatus extension for Firefox but it works on Google Chrome only. Download SeoQuake Lite.

3. Chrome SEO – this extension is truly considered one of the best. It has really great potential and functional abilities in terms of SEO optimization: competition analysis, keywords analysis tool, external links analysis, Google PageRank, the number of indexed pages, visitors’ overview, NoFollow links highlighter and many more. As per the latest research – more than 100 000 webmasters and SEO specialists all over the world are using Chrome SEO extension on a daily basis. This extension works with such sources like Archive.org, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, CoralCDN, Ask, Baidu, Bing, Delicious, Digg, Dmoz, Google PageRank, MajesticSEO, Open Site Explorer, Quantcast, SEMRush, SEOmoz, Linkscape, StumbleUpon, Technorati, WebCite, Yandex Quotation Index, Yahoo. You can download Chrome SEO extension here.

4. SEO Site Tools – another great extension for Google Chrome. Here are some of the functional abilities of this extension: social services counter, counter for search results in Yahoo, Bing and Google.  SEO Site Tools extension works with Google Analytics and other statistics services. In addition this extension can display on page elements like Metatags, H1 tags, text links, nofollow attribute and other ‘source code’ related information. You can download SEO Site Tools here.

5. SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar – this is yet small but functional Google Chrome extension for your day-to-day SEO needs. This extension is capable of displaying Google PageRank and Alexa Rank for any page. And if you click the plugin button then you will see the visitors’ statistics for any website based on Alexa data. Download your copy of this extension here.

6. META SEO inspector -  this Google Chrome extension will be perfect for those webmasters who would like to quickly analyze the relevancy of the metatags towards the page content, their optimization rank and if they match Google requirements. In addition META SEO inspector extension will show you a warning message if any metatag info is absent. Download META SEO inspector.

7. SEO & Website Analysis – this extension will be extremely useful if you would like to run an advanced analysis for the website. SEO & Website Analysis extension for Google Chrome allows you to work with more than 50 different parameters. This extension has such features like: website traffic prediction, display amount of indexed pages in Google and Yahoo, keywords analysis, robots.txt file analysis, WHOIS information and many others. Despite of its huge functional abilities SEO & Website Analysis extension is absolutely free to download and use. Above all, it even allows you to create reports in PDF format. You can download extension here.

8. WebRank SEO – this extension allows checking the following parameters: Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, Quantcast Rank, website’s indexed pages, amount of indexed pages in various search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Webrank SEO extension would work great not only for the SEO analysis but also for the certain website analysis and the competition research in general. Using this extension you will be able to review the competitors’ websites in just one click. In addition WebRank SEO has the ability to shorten the links and share those using popular social services. Click here to download this extension.

9. SEO SERP – this extension provides you with a simple way to check website’s position for the selected search query in various countries. The list of supported countries is as follows: Brazil, India, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Holland, Ireland, Russia, China, Poland, Salvador, Australia, Canada and the entire .com zone in general. Download SEO SERP extension for Google Chrome here.

10. iPageRank – this extension among all other SEO features has a very interesting one. iPageRank can display how much PageRank will be forwarded to your website through the dofollow link at any page. In addition it shows the general information about internal and external links on the page and how many of them don’t have nofollow attribute. iPageRank extension can make a query based on PR to various Google servers which allows to display this parameter in a longer time-frame. You can download this extension by clicking here.

May 30, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

Remove link from Google – myth or reality

With the growing potential of online reputation management there are more and more services that get listed in the standard work scope of every single reputation management company. One of the services that most of these companies provide is ‘remove link from Google.’ So today we are going to review what does this mean and how this can be done.

First of all we would like to make a note that remove link from Google statement is ambiguous. When it comes to online reputation management all the individuals and companies who discovered that they have some sort of negative identity online are ready to spend huge money to get such link(s) removed from the search results completely. However this is not as easy as it seems. In fact there is no way remove link from Google search results completely so that there will be no way to find it at all. Even if you will и lucky enough and the administrator or webmaster of the internet resource where the negative link is posted will agree to remove this entire page from their website – the information with the negative link will still be available through Google cache. In this case the alternative is to try to outrank this negative link and push it off to the lower positions I the search results so it is not so obvious.

Outranking the negative links in search results may differ. It depends on the amount of links that need to be outranked, how long ago these links were posted and what are the websites where these links were posted. For example the link with negative information that was posted at some infamous website or blog that gets just a few hits per day should not be a problem to outrank. However if the link is posted at some website with good PR (PageRank) and this specific link is getting hundreds of visits per day + people are leaving negative comments on this page as well – in this case you are in big trouble and most likely you will need to turn for professional online reputation company since in most cases people can’t fulfill this on their own.

Another thing to mention is that online reputation management is continuous process. Because of this most of the reputation management companies charge a one-time fee at the beginning of your project and then when the goal is achieved they will be charging you smaller monthly fee for maintaining the positive links and posts that were created to bump out the negative link that was bothering you from the top positions of Google search results. Somebody would say that this is not fair and simply is a waste of money however as statistics shows people would rather be paying 100-200$ monthly and would live stress free knowing that they have online reputation company that works for them on a daily basis providing them the defense of their online identity and remove link from Google if it is possible or will outrank the link if the first option is not available.

May 28, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

How to remove name from Google search

If you are looking for a way to remove name from Google search – you are in the right place! But first of all let’s try to figure out when was the last time you were trying to search for your own name or your company name? If you can’t answer this question oк the last search date was more than two weeks ago – than you definitely need to pay more attention to your online reputation. Ideally you should be the first person to identify if any issues come up and start acting immediately to improve the situation. The main issue of the World Wide Web is that your identity can be easily involved into some thread or ripoff despite of the fact that you never done anything bad in your life. And because of that you always need to keep an eye on the search results and information that is showing on at least first two pages of search results. In either way there are couple easy steps that you can actually do to remove your name from search engines, BUT there are no 100% guarantees to any of these methods.

At the very beginning there are literally two options that you need to try out: The first option is to get in touch with the owner/webmaster of the website where the negative link that is showing in the search results is posted and ask them to remove/disable this link kindly! It doesn’t necessarily mean that they will agree to help you so if the above option didn’t work than you need to move on to the second one: start working on improving you online web presence and start outranking the negative information that is showing by replacing it with more current positive things that will stay above the negative link.

For the accomplishment of the first step you will need to find out the contact details of the website’s owner. This can be done by using WHOIS database. There are plenty of such services now but the most popular ones are: http://whois.domaintools.com/ and http://www.internic.net/whois.html So if you check those two links most likely you will get an address, phone/fax number and email as well. There might be a case when the domain name was registered using so called ‘Private Registration’. In this case the contact details that will be displaying in WHOIS database results will belong not to the actual website owner but to the dedicated department of the domain registrar company.

If the above step didn’t work than you definitely need to move o the second option to remove negative link from search results. And in this case you are down to basically creation of the links with positive information that will be ranked higher by search engines and placed above negative search result(s). There are several websites, tools, services etc to get this accomplish however we would like to make a note that there is no way to completely remove the information that was once indexed by the search engines. Even if the actual page will be removed and the link will be disabled there still will be the ‘cached’ copy of the page where the negative info could be found though it will not be so obvious.

Few tips on how to manage your online reputation

So the alternative way to remove information from search results is to replace the negative link with much more amount of positive information. Here is the list of just a few most popular online profile services that get extremely good rankings in various search engines and most likely will occupy good positions in the search results: LinkedIn.com; Facebook.com; Plaxo.com; Ziki.com etc. In addition you should utilize resources like Digg.com; Mixx.com;StumbleUpon.com; Sphinn.com and others. You will be able to find much more resources that can be utilize in order to remove your name from Google if you do a simple search online. We would like to mention that this is not overnight process and things will not happen in a snap of a finger. Online reputation management is time consuming and might take you weeks and even months until you see positive results and actually achieve your main goal.

Lastly, if none of the above options succeeded you always have an option to turn to professional online reputation management company. There is a great variety of such companies and they can be easily found online. With this option you can stay stressless knowing that your project will be manageв by professional search engine optimization experts. RepManagementFirm.com is a professional online reputation management and search engine optimization firm. If you have issues removing your name from Google – submit free quote now and our specialists will be more than happy to help you!

May 27, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

Defensive-Passive online reputation management

Defensive/passive online reputation management occurs when offending materials or information was posted at a time in the past and has not been refreshed for quite some time. Usually, this takes the form of negative forum posts or blog comments, negative reviews, court documents or article in online newspapers.

As the practice shows the approach of handling this online reputation management issues slightly differ in type of newly posted web content, the information updates schedule and the amount of resources required to get the job done. The reason is that passive nature of such content tends not to rise or constantly move around in the search results as aggressively as the newly created negative information that might become popular among the readers and will be getting constant hits/comments because of this. On the other hand, the negative links that were posted a long time ago have certain advantage in front of the newly created pages since the ‘age’ of the link is something that search engines pay attention to when displaying search results for the given keyword.

Defensive/Passive online reputation problems can be solved in different ways. This is the combination of creation of the new resources with related content and the identifying of the existing links and pages that already exist on the third party websites but due to the low search engine potential occupy the lower positions in the search results. Such existing positive links can be optimized and promoted to get higher positions on the search engine result page (SERP). In addition to that various profiles through popular social community resources and social bookmarking websites would be of a great help to improve your online reputation. We also should not forget about the creation of the personal website and couple blogs and forums to be able to spread custom written materials and articles online.

Most of the users who found out that they are experiencing online reputation management issues prefer to contact professional rep management firm for assistance. Such companies specialize in helping both individuals and corporations to maintain or improve their online identity. By contacting reputation management firm you can be assured that your case will be treated in professional manner the best way possible.

May 25, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

Online Reputation Management by rep management firm

Reputation Management Online is simply the act of protecting, improving and/or repairing someone’s online reputation. One of the most common forms of Reputation Management is Online Reputation Management widely performed by professional rep management firm. Being so easy for people to publish bad comments and reviews, the World Wide Web became a huge place for users to vent their anger and frustration just about anything and anyone. Moreover it became a perfect place for competitors to destroy ones online presence by distributing fictional negative comments and reviews.

The definition of Online Reputation Management By Wikipedia.org is as follows: Reputation management is the process of tracking an entity’s actions and other entities’ opinions about those actions; reporting on those actions and opinions; and reacting to that report creating a feedback loop.

Online reputation management service has come into wide use with the advent of widespread computing. This is evidenced by a recent front page article in the Washington Post featuring several online reputation management companies. Online reputation management systems use different predefined criteria for processing complex data to report reputation. However, these systems only facilitate and automate the process of determining trustworthiness. This process is central to all kinds of human interaction, including interpersonal relationships, international diplomacy, stock markets, communication through marketing and public relations and sports.

The Wikipedia’s definition above is a little complex but in general is true. The bottom line is, online reputation management will improve your online presence and can help to bury negative links online. Online Reputation Management is an industry that is growing fast and is highly popular by a lot of companies and individuals. RepManagementFirm.com is an original rep management firm online and we know what it takes to fix and rebuild online identity for businesses and individuals.

Let RepManagementFirm.com defend your online reputation and name. Our online reputation management company will fight for your good name as if it were our own. Contact Us Now for a FREE custom quote.

May 23, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

Protective Online Reputation Management

Defending a brand online is as important task as building online reputation for the newly created one. Prophylactic online reputation management is preventative and useful way of securing online positions and information that is showing in the search results when someone is doing a search for your brand’s name. By reviewing the trends an identifying proper search queries (key words), creating positive online reputation, managing social profiles, doing regular article writing and blog commenting online reputation issues can be effectively reduced or avoided completely.

Prophylactic online reputation management should definitely be a part of every company’s online security plans. The reason is that years of careful reviews and proper products/services positioning along with hundreds thousands of dollars that you’ve spent on marketing and advertisement of your brand can all be laid waste if the competitor will simply start posting negative fake reviews about your brand online and if those reviews will hit the first positions of search results when people will be searching online for the name of your brand. In this case this will be a serious issue that might destroy your business empire.

As the most practice shows the majority of search engines users usually use the default search settings and one of the setups is displaying 10 search results per page. In case the search has been done for your brand name, the name of the product or service that your brand provides, or the name of the executive in your company, there will be 10 lines of related search results and this is what you have to convince them that you are worth of trust and doing business with. It is not even a question that in the ideal world you definitely would want to control all ten of those search results. As the latest research results shows 86% of all the people who are using search engines for finding the necessary information are looking at the first page of search results only, controlling the first ten search results allows the company not only to present its products/services in the most professional way but also secure positions for the possible fraud attacks from the competitors that will be trying to destroy your brand’s online reputation.

So the conclusion is very simple: the earlier you will start thinking about your online reputation protection upfront and start taking actions to move forward in this direction the easier it would be to achieve and secure positive search results. By using existing social profiles resources and bookmarking website along with corporate website, blog/forum and other sources of interaction with Internet users and spreading the word online the dominant positions in the search results can be had. At Rep Management Firm .com we realize how important your online reputation is for your business growth. Our professional reputation management firm consists of a professional technical team and search engine optimization experts along with dedicated in-house content copyrighters who will do all the best to take over all your online reputation management needs and make your life stress free. Contact us today for a free quote and we will select a perfect solution for you that will match your needs and budget. Your good reputation is our responsibility!

May 20, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

5 Online Reputation Management tips

Online reputation management industry with its fast growing market became a new field for companies to increase their leads, profits and sales. Unfortunately as the practice shows while some reputation management companies are actually helping people to improve their online identity the other companies specialize in creating negative info online about companies or individuals and then contacting them offering their services. As defined by www.Wikipedia.org ‘Online reputation management (or monitoring) is the practice of monitoring a reputation on the Internet with a view to controlling perception of that reputation.’ So today we are going to share 5 tips for online reputation management.

1)    You need to clearly realize the importance of your online reputation. Unfortunately most of the people when reading some gossip facts, rumors, stories etc about others do not realize that same kind of ‘informational attack’ can happen to them anytime all of a sudden. Internet became a place with very long memory. If someone will post negative information about you online – it will stay there forever. Negative information will not disappear by itself so you need to make sure that if ever that happens you are ready for this and one single link or post will not ruin your future career and your personal life.

2)    Expand your online presence by posting all the news and events that are related to your personal name or brand. Of course it takes some time and most of us do not have time to spend hours in front of the screens creating Facebook connections and generating tweeter followers. But if you spend just 10-15 min a day and will do this regularly in a few months you will see how much you contribute to improve your online reputation.

3)    Generate more positive feedback from others. Advices and recommendations that were given by unknown people are truly considered to be the best advertisement. So you need to work in this direction as well and increase the amount of such positive comments. This is a continued process and this will not happen in a snap of a finger. To get appreciation and positive feedback you will need to do something good first. Share your success stories, give advices and help other people – if you follow these simple steps you will see that people will gladly thank you back.

4)    Basically there are three simple steps that you always need to keep in mind and follow to preserve your online reputation. Firstly, monitor and listen to what is being said and posted about you online. It will be much better for you if you will know about upcoming issue. In this case you will have time to prepare. Secondly, analyze the source of the issue. If you know where it comes from it will be much easier for you to maintain it and avoid this from happening once again in the future. The final step is taking action when the problem is identified. However you need to remember that you need to act with the strategy in place since if you will do this without any tactics there is a very high risk that you will make things even worse instead off improving the situation.

5)    It doesn’t matter if your brand is big or not and if it is well presented online or no – bad things can happen to it at any time and you need to realize and take this for granted. However if you did your homework and dedicated some time and resources in the past to establish positive web presence this will definitely will soften the blow and will allow you to treat this situation not from the standpoint of the emergency protection but from the standpoint of interaction with the people who are relate to your brand.

We absolutely understand that a lot of people will say that in order to secure online reputation themselves it would take them a lot of time. On the other hand a lot of people are not enough tech savvy to be able to manage this. That is why our online reputation management firm provides online reputation management and search engine optimization services for all our clients combining professional service and affordable prices.

May 18, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

How to create a podcast

Recently we’ve got a question from one of our visitor who is a newbie at search engine optimization. He was asking some advice and tips on how to make his website a bit more interactive for the visitors. Among all the other recommendations we suggested him to start creating the podcasts. He was quite interested in this but h requested for a bit of assistance with this. So today we are going to review the process of creating the podcast for your website or blog.

Basically ‘podcast’ is an audio or video recording that was created by the administrator (or the editor) of the resource/website and is available for all the visitors to listen and download. In our opinion podcasts are extremely useful since they provide an ability to represent the information in a bit different angle or make a valuable contribution.  We would like to make a note that we are not recommending making your website or blog out of podcasts only, but you should definitely use them as an addition to the articles and written pages.

The scheme of creating a podcast is really simple. First of all you need to make a recording of the information that you would like to represent in your podcast, then you need to upload the file onto podcast server and the final step will be the retrieve of the link for the chosen podcast and than inserting a code onto the page of your website.

There is a great variety of software programs that allow to record good audio files. You can start with Audacity pretty functional free software that is extremely easy to use. The only thing you need to make sure is to download Lame mp3 encoder plugin by going to Lame.buanzo.com.ar and downloading the latest version from there. When you are done downloading both parts you need to install Audacity and then install Lame. After completing these actions you are all set from the software standpoint and can start the recording.

At first, we recommend to do some training and record a test podcast. There are two main techniques of recording podcasts. The first is to ‘record an information on the fly’. The second option is to write down the information for your future podcast and then read it from the file when making a recording. From our point of view the second option is better as it allows to avoid mistakes and also to pronounce the words a bit slower to make the listening to your podcast more comfortable. Another advice is to record a podcast in parts (for example 1-2 minutes each). In this case it will be easier to create a good podcast with fewer mistakes.

When you are all done with recording you need to save it in two formats: mp3 (File – Export to mp3) and Audacity project (File – Save project as). In the future you will be able to open and edit the project. When the podcast recording is ready, for future usage you will need to use the mp3 file. You need to use this file and upload it to podcasts server. There is a great variety of those so you can choose to your preferences. www.podbean.com and www.mypodcast.com are considered one of the best. When you are done uploading the file to the server you will be given a HTML piece of code that you need to insert on your website to make your podcast available for the visitors. If you are going to insert the podcast to your wordpress based blog you can also use a great variety of podcasting plugins. If you are interested in video podcasting then you will need a video recording software similar to Camtasia. When you are don creating the video you will be able to upload it on YouTube and get the HTML code to insert it onto your website.

We think that podcasts have a great future. It is simple and technological way to interact with the visitors of your website, increase the amount of visits and the targeted audience. We hope that this short article will help you to start podcasting and grow further. Good luck!

May 16, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

A Simple Strategy to Remove Links on Search Engines

So you’ve decided you need to remove link from Google and other most popular search engines. You’ve realized that asking the website owner to remove the negative information is an exercise in futility. You’ve figured out that bringing lawyers into the situation will only cost a lot of time and money without guaranteeing results. It’s time to consider the services of a professional online reputation management service.

Any online reputation management service worth the name uses a fairly simple main strategy for dealing with negative publicity. The idea is to bury any negative links under a massive amount of positive links on the search engines. This way, negative links end up far lower on the page rankings where extremely few people bother to go when doing a casual search.

Online reputation management company combines the expertise of by public relations practitioners, legal professionals, search engine optimization (SEO) specialists and writers to ensure that any search for your name, company or brand will bring back only positive links on the first few pages of Google.  Each case is different and may require a combination of tactics to produce the desired results.

To give you an idea what a reputation management service like reputation management firm might do to handle negative publicity, here’s a sample of what you might expect in a high level online reputation management strategy for the first three months:

Phase 1:
•    Creation of social networking profiles  on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn
•    Launch of online press releases campaign and distribution to online media outlets.
•    Creation of a new blog
Phase 2
•    Social marketing through blog commenting
•    Continuation of online press release campaign and distribution to online media outlets
•    Article writing marketing campaign
•    Writing in newly created blogs
Phase 3
•    Industry association profiles creation
•    Online press release campaign and distribution to online media outlets.
•    Article marketing campaign
•    Social marketing through blog commenting
•    Writing in newly created blog.
•    Social bookmarking

If you have reason to be concerned about your online reputation or you want to take proactive steps protect your good name from malicious attacks or remove name from Google, do not hesitate to contact online reputation management company. Experienced online reputation management consultants will gladly discuss your case and customize a strategy that will protect your online reputation.

May 13, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

Protect Your Good Name Today!

Consumers are more likely than ever to use the Internet in forming their opinions about a product or service than ever before.  Social media allows anyone with an Internet connection to be very vocal about how they feel about companies. Every single day, massive amounts of consumer generated content makes it way online adding to a collective perception that forms your online reputation.

On the downside, there’s also no telling how much of this content is genuine. Sadly, smear campaigns have also gone virtual so that misleading information is often given as much legitimacy as any other piece of online information. Anonymity online gives some people a false sense of entitlement to come out with grossly inaccurate information against their competitors.

That’s why it’s crucial for both individuals and businesses to monitor and manage their online reputation. Why wait for negative publicity to be published about you when you can take simple steps to protect your good name or try to remove name from Google?

A reputation management company like RepManagementFirm.com specializes in protecting your name and reputation from bad publicity. Using different approaches, RepManagementFirm.com will analyze each and every aspect of your online brand and determine a strategy that will not only protect your good name from attacks but promotes a positive view of your name or brand.

As one marketing firm puts it, people need to monitor the “conversations” being made about their name or brand and implement proactive strategies to listen and react across a wide range of media which includes Twitter, social networks, forums, blogs and online review sites.

Still not convinced? Then consider the fact that while a customer with a good experience will typically tell 3 to 5 people, a customer who has a poor experience, for whatever reason, will tell more than 20. Factor in the speed with which bad news travels online through viral media, and a single person with an axe to grind against you or your company can do considerable damage to your name.

For more information about this service and many other online reputation management services please visit RepManagementFirm.com – online reputation management company who is considered one of the leaders in online reputation management industry!