Our CEO to speak about Yelp and Reputation Management at Pubcon 2015
From October 5-8, Las Vegas will be taken over by Pubcon. The gathering is one of the largest annual meetings of search marketing professionals, and discussions will delve deep into all manner of organic search topics. Joining these brilliant minds in search is the veteran SEO and social media marketer: Pierre Zarokian. Zarokian, who is CEO of Reputation Stars and Submit Express, is an expert on the art of reputation management. Through Reputation Stars, Pierre is successfully growing the reputation management arm of his successful...
read moreReputation Stars Announces Unique Solutions for Reputation Management
We have just released a press release titled “Reputation Stars Offers Unique Solutions for Reputation Management.” In summary, Reputation Stars works with a legal team to try and get most negative reviews removed. These legal methods often work much better than traditional SEO methods and result in complete removal of the report from the offending site or Google. Reputation Stars, will use traditional SEO method if the legal method is not an option or if it fails. Reputation Stars management have 18 years of experience in SEO...
read moreIs it Possible to Remove Negative Yelp Reviews?
When Yelp first began, it caught on like wildfire. Users were providing honest ratings, complete with photos, and businesses were receiving valuable bumps in revenue and foot traffic. As time went on, the site became open to gaming. Fake reviews began to pop up, slandering some businesses and inflating others. Yelp recently won a court case that allows it to tailor its reviews as it wants, disabling any chance a business may have had at controlling their Yelp reputation. It is possible to remove some negative Yelp reviews, but that the...
read moreCould DMCA work for removing Defamatory Content?
By Pierre Zarokian The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was meant to help individuals establish copyrights for their materials online. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work to get defamatory content removed, unless the content was something you owned, such as a section of your website copied or a copied picture that you own the copyright to. However, be adviced that some sites such as ripoffreport and thedirty.com may not comply with a DMCA take down notice, where the owners use federal protections to justify their behavior. Sending a notice to...
read moreTheDirty.com is back up after being down for over 3 weeks
We reported last week that thedirty.com was a victim of hackers taking it down due to DOS attacks. It seems the site has gone live now and Nik Richie has improved his servers and technology. He posted a message on thedirty stating: “TheDirty.com is back online. We are still under DDoS attack and other attacks, but I’ve put a stronger team in place and rebuilt the infrastructure from scratch. I’m not going anywhere. This year the DIRTY ARMY will rise — I implore you to join. As you can see the new design is in place. I’m 35%...
read moreTheDirty Looses Lawsuit but turns out it was filed against the wrong company
A judge just awarded $1.25 million over defamatory comments on Thedirty.com brought by a woman who says comments on the site stated that her 3 children were from 3 different men because she wanted to collect child support and the owner Nik Richie refused to remove them when she requested. The judgement was awarded against Dirty World Entertainment Recordings. However, TheDirty attorney states that thedirty.com is not owned by that entity and Nik Richie has nothing to do with it. The correct entity that owns Thedirty.com is called the Dirty...
read moreNik Richie of TheDirty gets his iCloud account hacked showing extortion messages
We just reported that thedirty.com was down due to hacker DOS attacks. Apparantly they also hacked Nik Richie’s icloud account and a personal message from it was posted online showing Nik trying to make a deal with girl or prostitute to sleep with his friends so then he could remove a post…funny stuff. We have no way of knowing the authenticity of this, so we leave the judgment up to you. Read below the full...
read moreThedirty gets taken down by hackers
Thedirty.com has been down for the past 2 weeks apparently hit by a group of hackers. The group “Anonymous” seems to be behind it and FBI is currently investigating. However, another group called Justice Squad took credit on youtube as well. TMZ Reports that the owner Nik Richie has lost over $250K-$300K already in ad revenue due to the hack. It seems this is a Denial of Service Attack (AKA DOS Attack), which means even if the servers are moved the attack will follow. These hackers are doing some serious attacking because Nik has...
read morePierre Zarokian, CEO of Reputation Stars, on How to Fight Yelp
Yelp was created to try and help users familiarize themselves with amazing spots in a city they thought they were familiar with. It used the opinions of friends to try and source these recommendations. At a small scale, this worked very well. Reviews were honest and people used the check-in feature to add authenticity. As Yelp scaled, it failed to deal with the underlying of problem of transparency. CEO of Reputation Stars, Pierre Zarokian, understands this problem all to well. Reputation Stars helps businesses develop strategies to fight...
read moreWho Needs ORM (Online Reputation Management)
Anyone whose web site appears in response to an online search might need ORM. Consumer generated media offers the public an opportunity to express their views. This information can be found in search engine results. The more a product, brand or company is exposed to public attention and scrutiny, the greater the likelihood that someone will want to challenge their reputation. This can include dissatisfied clients, customers and competitors, who may have legitimate complaints, but can also include rumor mongers, and irresponsible, vindictive...
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