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Reputation Management Monitoring

Reputation Management monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation.
Learn who is talking about you, your brand, company or products on websites, videos, news, blogs and social networks.

Reputation Management Monitoring

Monitor what is being said about you or your company and protect yourself.
Reputation is the the feeling a web surfer takes away when querying a search engine for a name, product, or service, regardless of whether the surfer clicks on any results.

Do it Yourself Reputation Management Monitoring

While paying for monitoring can be very effective, individuals can use free tools to monitor their reputation online.
Below is a number of free, quick, easy and effective approaches to monitor results for your name.

Yasni

Yasni- This is a search engine dedicated to finding people on the web through publicly available information, including images, videos, social networking profiles and posts.

Google Alerts

You can configure Google Alerts by different areas: News; Blogs; Web search results; Google Groups.

RSS

Create a folder in your RSS Reader for reputation monitoring feeds. Create custom RSS feeds based on keywords: Technorati.com, Feedster.com, Google.com/blogsearch, Google News, Blogpulse.com, MSN Spaces, MSN News Yahoo! News, MSN News.
Use FeedDemon for a dedicated Windows program, its sibling NetNewsWire on Macs, or read on the web with Google Reader.

Create your own Search Engine

Rollyo can track sites that do not offer RSS feeds for keywords such as Consumerist, Complaints.com, Better Business Bureau, RipOffReport, PlanetFeedback and ComplaintCenter.

Key Words and Phrases

Not sure what keywords to track? Use Google Keywords Tool for ideas.

Technorati

One of the great search systems for bloggers is  Technoroti, which has a Watchlist feature.

URL Monitoring

WatchThatPage, UpdatePatrol, and WebSite-Watcher monitor URLs.

Whois

Research the background of bloggers and web site owners using domain name search tools such as Who Is.

Free Feed Reader

Feedreader offers advanced, cutting-edge capabilities, including the most comprehensive podcasting support available today, as well as unique smartfeed technology that puts the information you need right at your fingertips. Feed Reader

Monitor This

Monitor This allows you to monitor keywords across dozens of search engine feeds at the same time. The OPML works well with the Feed Reader.

WhoLinksToMe

WhoLinksToMe- A link search tool that tracks backlinks and makes them easily sortable by anchor text, origination, and by the target URL with enhanced reporting capability. You can also import links from Google Webmaster Tools for enhanced analysis.