Category Archives: Online Reputation Management

Social Media CyberSquatters

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on March 13, 2009. Filed under Online Reputation Management, Social Media Optimisation. No comments.

Cybersquatting has been a threat to businesses from the inception of the internet.  The term refers to individuals who buy domain names associated with big brands and sit on them for future profit or gain. Legislation has since been passed to protect brands against cyber squatting and many companies have successfully managed to claim their [...]

ORM on a Shoestring

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on March 12, 2009. Filed under Online Reputation Management. No comments.

Want to monitor and manage your online reputation but don’t have the budget for it?  Here’s a list of some of the top Online Reputation Management Tools on the Net that can help you keep track of your online reputation across a spectrum of sites, blogs, forums and social media.   In order to manage your reputation, you [...]

Multiple Google Alerts Using Yahoo PIPES

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on February 20, 2009. Filed under Gadgets & Tools, Online Reputation Management. 1 Comment.
Google Alerts with Yahoo Pipes

Google provides an alert service for monitoring various keywords in it’s search index as well as news, blogs and other properties it owns. This can be very useful for monitoring online reputation.  Here are 10 easy steps to create a Mega Google alerts RSS feed using Yahoo PIPES. 1. Sign up or Login to Yahoo! pipes 2. [...]

ORM – Managing Your Brand’s Reputation Online

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 18, 2009. Filed under Online Marketing, Online Reputation Management. No comments.

With more and more people using search engines to research brands and products, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that your brand has a positive reputation online.   The internet has become a vehicle for disgruntled customers/clients/employees to air their views about negative experiences they’ve had with a brand. While this is a good thing for the democratisation [...]

Google Alerts Now in RSS

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on November 9, 2008. Filed under Feeds, Google News, Online Reputation Management. No comments.

Do you subscribe to Google alerts?  If you do then you’ll be happy to know that Google has now begun offering the option to recive them via RSS!.  Yes thats right RSS! Benefits of reciveing Google alerts via rss as opposed to to email include the ability to include them in your favourite reader, or [...]