The other day, I don't remember which news, there was talk of online reputation and a new business where there are companies and professionals working with the aim of improving other people's reputation on the internet . One might think that this is simply a habit of important people, VIPs or politicians who are in the mouth of public opinion or companies that sell services and products and instead it is not at all like that, the online reputation concerns everyone .
Have you ever searched for a colleague or friend on Google "> list of sites to search for people on the internet by name and article on how dangerous Facebook is from this point of view.
Just Facebook, given its popularity, becomes a means by which to know everything about others, even strangers (also read how to check my visibility on Facebook).
Probably, if a person uses a lot of Facebook, his profile can be the first result when looking for his name.
As seen in another article (on how to publish an online resume), the best way to protect your online reputation is to create profiles with serious biography and resumes on job search sites that are well indexed by Google .
In general, there is no need to pay anyone to restore a person's or product's good online reputation; if there is negative information that cannot be eliminated, one must subscribe to the best sites and social networks that are well indexed on Google (and it does not matter if they are used or not in Italy) such as Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter.
It would be excellent to open a blog, even simple in 5 minutes with a single page, which is titled with your name and surname on these platforms: Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr.
Without paying too much attention to making contacts or friendships, the important thing is to write in all these sites something like a curriculum vitae or a biography even with only schematic information that praises yourself.
All these profiles must then be connected to each other via Google Profiles and you're done.
In a short time, looking for your name on Google or other people search engines, these profiles and these web pages or blogs will appear first (undermining old news that ruined the reputation) where you appear as professional, serious and fashionable people .
So when a prospective employer, recruiter, HR manager or client (but also a newly-known girl) searches for your name on the internet to see who you are, he will only get favorable information.
Returning instead to the questions above, let's see how it is also possible to check your reputation on the internet and, specifically, the search results on Google that concern my name.
Google does not give any information on how many times and on who looks for a name on the search engine and even Facebook (let's dispel the false myths) can tell me who and how many times someone visits my profile.
There are two ways to check who is looking for you on Google.
One is via Google Alert which warns if you are talking about yourself, a person or a thing, on the internet.
In this regard, Google also offers an online tool to find my identity online and know who I am on the web .
The other trying to see who is looking for you on Google and how.
The best tool to see the most searched words, Google AdWords, can find the monthly global search volume for a name or the relevant keywords that are searched together with the name.
However, it says nothing about the person who is looking for you and you have to use a trap similar to the one used to see who accesses and reads my emails.
The trick is to position your curriculum vitae (written differently than the one put on social networks), published on specific sites, at the top or at least on the first page on Google results when your name is searched.
If someone searches for you on the internet, they will probably browse through various results and fall into the trap.
When he opens that site with my CV, I will be able to read and know both how he found me (if with only his name or name and a few other words), and the IP address of this person and understand the city of origin and perhaps even the precise location.
Excellent is also the support of the BrandYourself site which promises to raise its profile on Google search results.
One of the best site that allows you to set up a profile and track visits is Naymz which allows you to set up a complete profile with biography, photos and resume.
After a short time, this profile page is indexed by Google and, every time someone opens it, you can receive an email alert .
The email will tell you when your profile was searched, where the search came from (based on the IP address), and what keywords were used to find you.
I also remember several other sites where you can publish your curriculum vitae online to be found on the internet and look for work.
So what about me?
How do you protect your online reputation?
Have you ever had this kind of problem?
