Omar Kattan » Online Reputation Management

5 Free Methods for Measuring Twitter Success

Omar Kattan — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:59:31 +0000

Increasing numbers of businesses are realising the benefits of operating on Twitter. It offers an incredibly cost effective way of engaging with customers or clients and can be an unbelievably powerful promotional tool if used correctly. Engaging with Twitter can be intimidating for businesses and it can too often feel as th... Read more..

Social Media CyberSquatters

Omar Kattan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:28:53 +0000

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 URLs back. However, this phenomena has reincarnated itself in the form of Social Media Cyber Squatting which is more tricky to combat. Read more..

ORM on a Shoestring

Omar Kattan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:02:03 +0000

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... Read more..

Multiple Google Alerts Using Yahoo PIPES

Omar Kattan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:43:06 +0000

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. ... Read more..

ORM – Managing Your Brand’s Reputation Online

Omar Kattan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:28:44 +0000

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... Read more..

Google Alerts Now in RSS

Omar Kattan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:34:29 +0000

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 even importing them into a adatabase including your cms for reputation management and collaboration.