Hey Gang,

Rand's back briefly to give a quick Whiteboard Friday lesson in reputation management. Following his directory smackdown a couple of weeks ago after the release of the Premium Link Directory, we caught some heat in the forums (albeit largely from disgruntled directory owners). Watch the video and get an idea of how we recommend dealing with these types of situations.




Here are the sources mentioned in the video (fill in your brand/domain for the queries):

• Google, Yahoo!, MSN & Ask
• Google News & Yahoo! News
• Forums like Digitalpoint, Cre8asite, SearchEngineWatch, Sitepoint, WebProWorld & SEOChat
• Voting News sites like Digg, Reddit, Sphinn & Netscape
  
• Large UGC Communities like Google Groups, Yahoo! Answers & Wikipedia
• Google Blog Search & Technorati

ONE MORE THING: Today is the LAST DAY to get the Early Bird Discount for the Premium SEO Training Seminar we're hosting on October 1st.