Can Internet Lawyers Help You Protect Your Online Reputation?

EASY ONLINE REPUTATION MANAGEMENT STRATEGY!

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YOUR ONLINE REPUTATION IS THE MOST PRECIOUS ASSET THAT YOU POSSESS IN YOUR BUSINESS TODAY.

You don't need an internet law expert to tell you that only a thin line divides between a fair comment and a defamatory remark. Online Reputation travels fast and because so many members of the public wrongly believe that they can hide behind a made up name in an online forum to post comments without being accountable for the consequences of their comments, you can see how your business reputation could be completely tarnished almost overnight.

"If you have found yourself being the subject of an online reputation attack, with lies being spread about you over the internet, you will find that the most effective way of dealing with such menace is to simply ask that the website owner or the Internet Service Provider remove the libelous statements. Normally website owners and internet service providers are not willing to tolerate online abuse or risk getting involved in litigation which has probably got nothing to do with them anyway. You can normally obtain verfy useful information from the website owner because websites routinely require visitors and bloggers to register before posting content and sites usually can pinpoint the IP address where the defamatory posting originated. “

Almost every business relies on the internet to acquire new customers and there is no doubt that you must create a positive online reputation before you can convince people to give you their business, whether your business is mainly based online or offline.
Good reputation plays a major part in every company’s marketing plan, and some businesses almost solely relay on their good online reputation to acquire new work. You take the online reputation away from them and their business is finished.
Even those small businesses who have not yet found a way to incorporate the internet into their marketing strategy, are nevertheless exposed to reputation attacks online by unsatisfied customers and by competitors.

Imagine a customer who came to you through a ‘word of mouth’ referral and who did a simple Google search against your company, let’s say just to find the address. Imagine that the first results that this person sees on Google contain pages of negative comments about your company. Are you likely to hear from this customer again? You know what the answer to this question is; you don’t need us to tell you.
So once you discover that there are online threats to your reputation, what exactly are you going to do about it and how would you make sure that the damage does not spread across the internet and that your next ‘word of mouth’ client does not see the same results appearing when searching for your company on the internet? How would you make the comments to disappear off the face of cyberspace? And what if the comments have in the meantime been copied and distributed over the internet, on blogs and forums? How quickly would you be able to restore your reputation and how much would it cost you to do so? Some serious food for thoughts.

"There is an old say that “the first step to getting out of a hole is to stop digging”. If you discover that your online reputation has been tarnished on a rough website and that bad results are appearing against your name upon every Google search, do yourself a favour and overcome the natural tendency of constantly clicking on the link to the bad result. A defamatory remark on the internet is similar to a toothache – we feel almost a compulsive need to touch and feel the pain – in case it has already gone without us noticing it. Sadly, with defamatory remarks on the internet, the more you click the more powerful they become. Google gives priority to popularity. So every click makes the bad comment more dominant and in Google’s view also more important, which means that the defamatory remark will constantly be claiming up the search engine ladder with more people seeing it. When people see a link to a defamatory page against them, they tend to tell friends and family about it with the result that the link to the bad comment becomes very popular. The more people click on the link to see what is being said about their friend/family, the more likely it is that the link will remain at the top of the search engine. So remember that the first step to getting out of a hole is to stop digging. An internet law expert will use special tools to examine the link and the defamatory page regularly without actually adding to its popularity. So if you are unfortunate enough to have enemies who have taken upon themselves to defame your character online – make sure you don’t tell the world about it and take legal advice from an internet law expert as soon as possible. "

But the good news is that there is help available and that it does not necessarily need to cost you a fortune to get an answer to many of these bothering questions, so we are going to get you started in defending your Online Reputation NOW.

Basically, the longer you leave it the more difficult it will become to fix the problem and the more it will cost you to do so.

"Everyone needs to have a few blogs or ‘mini websites’ on the back burner. It is like having an army of loyal soldiers, all well trained and ready to fight the enemy upon demand. These mini websites can be activated with positive content about your company as soon as you feel that a reputation attack is imminent. By populating these mini websites you will help to push any negative web pages down the search engines. Because it could take weeks and sometimes months for web pages to be indexed by the search engines, I always advise to have these blogs, or mini websites already prepared, indexed and ready to go on demand. Speak to your internet people today and ask them to create a few basic websites for you straight away, just in case..... "

There are 3 stages where you can take action to defend your Online Reputation. Take action early and you are likely to succeed in protecting your Online Reputation at little or no costs at all. The longer you leave it the harder it is to get effective results and the more it will cost to fix the problem.

Stage 1: The First Online Reputation Damaging Signals:
You have to nip it in the bud and act swiftly towards every risk to your online reputation and by ‘swiftly’ we mean within hours or maximum days. You can have comments completely removed from a single website if they are defamatory and there are a number of ways of achieving this, some of which are fairly simple. You can try and do it yourself by writing to the website owners and ask for the defamatory content to be removed from their website and in many cases this helps to resolve the issue. You can also hire a solicitor to deal with this on your behalf to make sure that your requests are effective and are taken seriously. Solicitors who are versed in this area of law might charge you whatever they feel their service is worth for you. Here, we normally eliminate the First Online Reputation Damaging Signal for a fixed fee so you know exactly where you stand and what results to expect.
We take an approach of a medical clinic and treat the first online reputation damaging signal as a spreadable disease.

Stage 2: The Spread Of the Online Reputation Damage Disease
This time, we are talking about a disease which has already started to spread. This needs to be dealt with by carrying out a Cinical Surgery’ and/or by the development of a Clear Legal Strategy to deal with the problem. The aim is to save the patient (your business) with as little damage as possible to important organs (your business reputation and marketing systems) and to facilitate rehabilitation which means making sure that the disease does not recur.
A Clinical Surgery will involve giving some treatment to your website in connection with the damaging comment. The goal is to ‘push down’ in the search engines results which contain the damaging comments. To do so we engage with specialist companies that we trust and which are focussed on fixing the problem rather than on your wallet. We pick the people we work with very carefully. Our reputation is important to us.
The Clear Legal Strategy that as internet lawyers we prefer to use to restore your online business reputation, is always focused on the end results. The goal is to move away from reacting to being proactive in defending your online reputation. Your reactions to negative comments about your business might do more harm than good as this could escalatethe problem and could contribute to the rapid spread of the disease.
At the same time, ignoring defamatory remarks online could also cause damage because they allow untrue, negative comments to go unanswered. Each case therefore must be carefully analysed and action must be taken in line with the nature of your business and the nature of the threat. Only experience can tell you what the right strategy is to win back your right to online reputation and you have to be careful that your relative lack of experience in this field, of Online Reputation Management can easily result in you following the wrong strategy for your business and this is too much of a risk for you to take.
At this stage we do recommend that you see an Online Reputation Strategist or speak to an internet lawyer. You can find a few of them online. Here, we tailor a strategy to defend your online reputation and find and implement ways to start restoring your online reputation for a fixed fee, again to ensure that even small businesses can afford protecting their online reputation and also for you, to know exactly where you stand. What is for sure is that if you find yourself at Stage 2, where the spread of the online reputation damage disease is in advance stages, you will need to pay more money to get it fixed than if you caught the problem at stage 1 where the first online reputation damaging signal appeared.

Stage 3 (you really don’t want to get there) The Court Battle to Save Your Online Reputation.
In most cases, issuing court papers will sort the problem out at once. However, on many occasions if you find yourself having to resort to the Courts to defend your online reputation it means that you must have by now sustained some serious financial damage as a result of the defamatory remarks. Latest legal decisions worldwide tend to side with the business whose reputation has been damaged. However, the costs which are involved in such battles can be quite high as you might imagine.
The good news is that those sorts of cases tend to settle out of court and just before the legal costs are spiralling out of control. You might find yourself in this situation where you fight court battles to save your online reputation if you failed to effectively deal with the defamatory remarks at stages 1 and 2. You now might need to pay a high price for not being able to deal with the threats at early stages. But you can rest assured, that online reputation can be repaired and regained and if the court considers it to be irreparable, with effective legal representation you can win substantial damages to reflect the losses that you have sustained as a result of the defamatory remarks.
We work relentlessly to keep you away from the courts. We believe that in most cases, actual legal proceedings can be prevented.

What do we offer you?
At whatever stage you find yourself in, you get from us initial, straight forward advice in person or over the telephone. This advice is absolutely affordable! We charge a fixed fee for an initial consultation which is £93 and it lasts for approximately 45 minutes. The purpose of the consultation is to help you make a quick assessment of the problem and give you a variety of options to consider and implement.
Our goal is to help you solve the threat to your reputation as quickly as possible and at the lowest possible costs to you. We are happy to let you work on the solutions yourself or to work with you to help you regain your online reputation whenever you wish to do some of the work yourself to save costs. Whatever you decide, our unique Full Satisfaction Money Back Guarantee Offer applies to Internet Law issues too, which means that we guarantee that the consultation will be of value to you whatever advice we give.

So if you do want us to help you develop an Online Reputation Management Strategy or if you suspect that there is a current threat to your online reputation, do yourself a favour and treat this as an emergency and take action NOW. Every hour that passes and every day that goes by without positive action on your part, can result in you having to pay higher and higher costs to repair the damage, not to mention the daily loss of business. Call US NOW on 020 8252 7373 or we can call you back at a time whicn is most suitable to you!