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It all comes out in the wash.

“Treat others how you would expect to be treated or it may come back to bite you in your ass.”

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Tags: reputation management

“Have you ever had a client come to you in a state of desperation, begging for help to remove a blog post that ranks for their business name, and portrays them in less than a positive light?”

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Sphunn here

Tags: reputation management

It’s been said more than once that we should post to our blogs regularly, even at times when we may be under the weather or otherwise unable to submit ‘quality‘ posts.

Is this how we should view it? Or is this a huge mistake? Sacrificing quality is never the answer, as James Duthie (Online Marketing Banter) clearly notes.

This series by Jeff Quipp (Search Engine People) addresses the concept of authority building with the most professional yet, humane way I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading.

It’s posts like these that makes someone a respected authority figure, while establishing loyal readership. (especially referring to the third of the series)

Blogging - Step 1 of the Authority Building Process

Foundation Friending - Step 2 of the Authority Building Process

Shari Voigt of “Express Marketing Memo Blog” has been a Stumbleupon friend of mine for quite some time. We have discussed the negative goings ons in depth so we can try to come up with useful strategy to improve upon our presence there as well as to also improve other Stumblers experience.

She has written a 2 part series called “The Two Faces of Stumbleupon“.

**Update: As of when I am uncertain (sometime between writing this and submitting my tag change request to SU)

SU has returned our tags to their original status. This still poses a threat to us for it means that all of us are subject to the hands of those who may want to our names tainted in some way.**

***UPDATE AGAIN! She did it again to THIS post as well..She is stalking me now. Which is also illegal.***

Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land wrote about SEO’s having a bad month, reputation-wise.

Quote from Danny

“We seem to be going through another wave “SEOs are scumbags” incidents, and I find myself with little energy to push back against them with yet another defense of the industry. It’s not that SEO doesn’t deserve better treatment. It’s just that I feel anything I could say, I’ve said before — as have others as well…”

Marty and I were having a conversation in the comment area of his blog post “Stumbleupon Going After Abusive Users“…

His post is looking at the new changes in SU in a hopeful light, due to the new changes in SU with the ‘Flagging feature‘ which is in our mailbox next to individual mail as well as in the review area next to each submitted comment. It allows us to flag comments that may be spam, violent, hostile, or vulgar..On the positive side, it allows us to flag people as being helpful, not helpful, informative, and/or friendly.