This article is all about how Google’s Place Pages and what exactly it is supposed to be. More importantly, near the ends, the author writes wonderingly about how Place Pages will effect business reputation management. This is an interesting concern, and one that I’d be excited to read more about.
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/09/28/google-local-feature-raises-seo-concerns

Like a business or an individual, churches sometimes need help managing their reputations too. Potential critics of a church can find a platform through the Internet, where free blogs, forums, and website can be created for cheap or free. This can be quite damaging to the church’s reputation, lower its weekly attendance, or decrease its influence in the community. A reputation manager can help to avoid this.
http://www.ministrymaven.com/marketing-and-advertising/church-online-reputation-management/

Google is the king of search engines, a fact which is not likely to change anytime soon. When someone Googles you or your company, the links they see are the result of a formula that Google uses to determine the “authority” of each link. Business reputation management firms can help to manipulate these search results and determine which links will appear in a given search.
http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2009/08/learning-to-protect-yourself-online-the-basics.html

The article cited below gives a number of ways NOT to respond to online defamation, but I want to zero in the focus on his first point. Never ask a blogger, or commenter for that fact, to remove a post. For one, if you comment on their posting–this will only give them more fuel for the fire, and it will increase the visibility of their posting. Secondly, it is highly unlikely that the blogger will remove the posting anyway–he will, more than likely, bristle about freedom of speech.
http://www.davidrisley.com/2009/02/26/negative-publicity/

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