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Gartner: fake social media reviews

Sherrilynne Starkie

Photo credit: Wikipedia). As the FTC begins to crack down on this practice of fake reviews/ratings, some social media sites identifying fake and defaming reviews and requesting they be taken down. The site already filters suspected fake reviews but is introducing alerts that will stay on a business’ page for 90 days or longer.

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Crowd-Sourced Information Online: Helpful or Harmful?

The Social Media Incubator

There’s been quite a bit of discussion about the reliability of online information that is compiled by individual users (think Wikipedia ). Others scrutinize sites that allow users to share/upload files, music and videos freely. But who can really define whether these sites are doing right or wrong? So what happened?

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5 Smart PR & Marketing Trends for 2024

Proactive Report

Example: As a nutrition expert, write an informational 600-word article about why women over 35 need to eat a healthy diet that will help improve their health. For example, if you are the CRM software space, is your brand mentioned in articles about new CRM features or comparisons of CRM systems? Use subheads and bullet points.

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Online Reputation Management For Businesses: A Comprehensive Guide

Harp Interactive

These sites become popular because they use certain techniques that attract searchers who are typing in keywords associated with your brand. Google search results page will list these negative sites if these sites have gained momentum and are optimized for relevant search terms/keywords. Use PPC to improve traffic to domains.

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Monitor Your Brand Online-Part 1

Harp Interactive

Video Sites (Youtube). Image Sites (Flikr). Articles (ezine, articlebase etc). Tags (keywords on social bookmarking sites and Twitter Hashtags). Complaint Sites (Ripoffreport, Complaintsboard etc). Blogs (WordPress, Blogger, Twitter etc). Press releases. Next…how to monitor all these platforms?

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Traffic Rises 350% Year-Over-Year For Social Publisher BuzzFeed

The Realtime Report

Here are more stats from BuzzFeed’s traffic in November: the site’s 130 million unique visitors showed a 350% increase year-over-year. more visits to BuzzFeed in November than in the site’s first four years of existence. ” Or, as Wikipedia puts it, “ a snapshot of the viral web in realtime.”

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5 Strategies To Drive Traffic With Buyer Intent [Content Creation Template]

OnlineRockersHub Marketing Blog

If you’re attempting to rank your page for a specific topic and your site has a duplicate content penalty, you need to correct the issue before you will see any real results. If your site is taking at least 12 seconds to load each page, you obviously have a technical issue that needs to be addressed. Create killer content.