Archive for the ‘Online Reputation Management – ORM’ Category

My wife and I watched “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed,” the new documentary about the famous PBS landscape painter last night. The film reveals how Ross’s business partners, Annette and Walt Kowalski, wrested the bulk of Bob Ross’s estate from his son, wife, and half-brother, and now operate a business with the artist’s […]

Argent Media has long provided Online Reputation Management services for both individuals as well as for organizations. While we also have long provided Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services as well as Pay-Per-Click Search Ad Management (SEM) — the two staples of Internet Marketing — even from our beginning we have provided Online Reputation Management as […]

Argent Media CEO Chris Silver Smith has been asked to provide the keynote at the International Search Summit in Barcelona this November. Chris has long provided online reputation management services to individuals, companies and organizations, and he plans to provide a number of anecdotes from the reputation trade, in addition to providing a number of actionable […]

We recently took the unusual step of advocating for an admitted forger by way of submitting an amicus curiae brief to the court prior to the sentencing phase. If you closely followed the news around online reputation management issues, you may have heard of the jewelry company CEO who was caught forging court orders in […]

Chris Silver Smith will be speaking at SMX East in two weeks on the topic of “Tips for Local SEO & Reputation Management”. In some ways, Local SEO has gotten harder over time, as competitors become more sophisticated, and as technical tricks no longer provide advantages. However, some methods for performing the basics can be […]

A couple of weeks ago, internet marketer Joe Hall, announced that he was auctioning off a domain name as a benefit for the son of Michael Streko, a prominent figure in the industry who tragically died on August 11th. We’re pleased to have participated in the benefit auction, and we won the DIYORM.com domain name. […]

The MyEx.com revenge porn website that encouraged people to send in nude photos of ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends along with their personal information including their names, locations and other identifying data, has effectively been shut down by the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Nevada. The complaint filed in federal court named EMP Media Inc., Aniello […]

This Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, a gun store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, thought it would be a good idea to advertise a sale tied into the them of the holiday. The Los Ranchos Gun Shop is offering 10% off of accessories with the purchase of a gun today. It’s not unusual for retail […]

You’re sailing along with no care in the world, up until that wicked person posted something bad about you online. “No problem,” you think. After all, you already have a lot of good stuff about you that’s been ranking strongly for years, like your own website, your Twitter and Facebook accounts, online directory pages, a […]

Argent Media is pleased to announce that we have begun marketing to Hispanic markets in the United States, as well as to Spanish-speaking markets internationally for Online Reputation Management services. While Argent Media is primarily an English-speaking agency, we do have background in translating language processing applications and websites of Fortune 500 companies into Spanish. […]

At the end of December, I reported at Search Engine Land on what what seems to have been a major change in Google’s internal policy. (See: Paradigm shift: Has Google suspended defamation removals?) Google has effectively begun to decline requests to remove defamation from its web search results, although it has been honoring those takedown […]

A year ago, I stated that the Ashley Madison hacking scandal was not over, and that is proven yet again. A member of the Electoral College has now had his reputation attacked online using details from the Ashley Madison data and other apparent details from his life, because he wrote an op-ed for the New […]

Whenever we have managed Facebook pages for businesses or individuals that are the target for online reputation attacks, I’ve been struck with how odd it is that Facebook doesn’t provide an option to allow all comments to be automatically moderated so that one may review them and approve or disapprove them before being published. It […]

In my recent article, I predicted that the worst was far from over for Ashley Madison users whose personal information was exposed by the massive hacking. Indeed, our research has now uncovered that over 500 domain names have been registered, indicating that the next stage of this reputation apocalypse is about to happen.

Argent Media CEO, Chris Silver Smith, was interviewed recently by Gemma Birch of Webcertain TV on the topic of “Online Reputation Management – The Dark Side of the Internet”. Description: “It has never been easier to create smear campaigns and publish defamatory content online – and the impact of such campaigns on individuals can be […]

Argent Media CEO, Chris Silver Smith, will be presenting a session on “Repairing and Safeguarding Your Brand Online” at the Rocks Digital Marketing Conference in Dallas next week. Request a discount code if you’d like to attend! Chris has worked on various aspects of Online Reputation Management (“ORM”) for many years and has extensive experience […]

Hallelujah! Google has announced that they’ll soon accept takedown requests from any revenge porn victims! This is a truly fantastic bit of news for anyone who may be the victim of revenge porn — where someone posts nude and compromising photos of one without consent online. This is really, really great news! Unfortunately, this doesn’t […]

One of the most controversial areas of online marketing is that of business reviews and ratings. Companies intensely feel impact to their pride and their bottom line when they receive negative consumer reviews, and this consternation does little to reduce the desire of other companies to publish them like Yelp, TripAdvisor, Angie’s List, online yellow […]

As part of the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle, Chris Silver Smith, Argent Media CEO, will be speaking at the Local Search Advantage Workshop on June 4, 2015.   The Local Search Advantage Workshop provides a deep dive into many of the primary aspects of local marketing, covering all of the topics necessary for local […]

I’ve been very excited that Search Engine Land‘s editors have recently allowed me to start a new column series dedicated to Online Relationship Management, which will be published on their sister site, Marketing Land! My first article for it, “9 Key Points for Cleaning Up Your Online Reputation Nightmare Via SEO“, appeared a few weeks […]


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