It’s not uncommon for job seekers to put their name into a search engine to make sure no potentially embarrassing items pop up, but businesses might want to consider doing this as well to make sure clients and customers aren’t seeing negative content when they do a search. To maintain a good online reputation, companies might want to consider using search engine optimization (SEO).
Alicia Whalen, co-founder of Canadian-based marketing firm A Couple of Chicks Marketing, writes on her IdeaHatching blog that companies should Google themselves frequently to see what others are saying about them. But finding out what’s being said about your firm online isn’t just limited to Google, as Whalen also suggests doing a search on Twitter.