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Five Steps to Save Your Google Reputation

Five Steps to Save Your Google Reputation
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Nov 5, 2007
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Five Steps to Save Your Google Reputation

Five Steps to Save Your Google Reputation

Protecting your digital good name from your less discriminating self or someone with the same name and poor judgment isnt as hard as you think.


Five Steps to Save Your Google Reputation – Claim

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Naymz.com calls itself a reputation management network. The site allows individuals to create a profile that links out to all of their other authentic profiles on th


Five Steps to Save Your Google Reputation – Join

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The easiest way to improve search results for your name is to join online networks and add to conversations in prominent places. LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking


Five Steps to Save Your Google Reputation – Create

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Build a Web site with information that you want people to find with a URL that uses your name (www.YourNameHere.com). At the very minimum, it is a well-optimized page, with your resume or any other content that is relevant to you, says Anton


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Five Steps to Save Your Google Reputation – Ask

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Quests to wipe cyber-slates clean of embarrassing information can prove fruitless, but it usually doesn’t hurt to ask. But be careful before you do. Unfortunately, requests for content removal to people in the blogosphere can also lead to retaliati


Five Steps to Save Your Google Reputation – Explain

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‘We are all human, and the person at the other end of the interview table has likely done something equally if not more embarrassing,’ said User Effects Meyers. Handling the awkwardness before confronted directly or quietly rejected because of it may be


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