How to monitor and protect your online reputation

Have you ever wondered what people about you or your business online says? What if someone slanders your name, steal your content, or threaten you? How do you know it, and what can you do about it?

Your online reputation is more important than ever these days. Businesses and restaurants live or die by the made of them on the sites or social networking blogs. Apart from you or your company name in Google search every day, these tools are available to control what said about you or your business?

How do you know what's being said about you online?

Google offers a free tool "on the web Me," the warning, you can at any time your personal information will be accessed online in a public website that is parsed by Google Site. You can use the "Me on the Web" tool, set to say your name, e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number or any other news station a notification for every time shows Google to find online.

As a warning will help you know when someone is trying to impersonate you online to harass, defame his character, etc

To set up a Google Alert of personal data:

1GB www.google.com/dashboard and sign in with your Google account (eg, Gmail, Google+, etc.) - ID.

2 In the "Me on the Web", click on the link "set up search alerts for your data."

3 Click the check box for "Name", "Email", or enter a custom search alert your phone number, address or other personal information that you want warnings. I recommend you find your social security number, because if your Google Account was hacked and hackers looking your alerts then see your social security number, if you had a set of warning to her.

4 Choose how often you want to receive warnings of personal data, click the drop-down menu next to the "How often" Words menu. You can choose between: "it happens", "Once a day" or "week".

5 Click on the "Save" button.

More Online Reputation Monitoring Services:

In addition to Google, there are other tools to monitor online reputation on the web, including:

Reputation.com - provides a monitoring service, the reputation of the audit blogs, online databases, forums and more mention of his name
Alarm with Google services like Twitter messages - TweetBeep.
Monitor This - allows the monitoring of several search engines for a certain period and the results are sent via RSS
Technorati - a monitored the blogosphere, their name or a keyword.

What can you do if you about you or your online business, find something wrong, libelous or threatening?

If you find online some embarrassing photos or information about you, you can try to remove Google search by the following steps:

1 Log on to Google Dashboard.

2 In the "Me on the Web", click on the link that says:. "How to remove unwanted content"

3 Click "delete the contents of another site from Google search results."

4 Select the link to appear for the type of content that you want to remove (ie, text, image, etc.) and follow the instructions when you click on the type.

In addition to eliminate offensive image or text from Google search results, you must contact the webmaster of the offending site to request a removal of the content. If that does not work, then you might want help from the Internet Crime Complaint Center Search (IC3)

If you feel threatened online and your life is in danger, you should use the local police and / or local connection.