Comments on: Elixir Interactive Online Reputation Management Case Study

By: Elxir Interactive

Elxir Interactive — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:13:53 +0000

Tanya,
Thank you for your kind words. I really enjoy that webinar series the next one is in October. I cannot comment publicly about where are at in the legal process drop me an e-mail to the address from the webinar and I will update you.
Regards
Fionn

By: Tanya Elllis

Tanya Elllis — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:06:18 +0000

Fionn,
Thank you for your wonderful webinar where you presented this case study. Your tips and information were great and I am busy building my social media profiles. I was wondering what the update on the legal situation is you said on the webinar that you were taking the legal route to remove the information from the search engines. I dont claim to fully understand it but wondered what was happening. Either way best of luck to you and look forward to your next webinar in the social media series.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:30:31 +0000

These stories are scary! I did not realize a rival business could purchase a legitimate business’ brand and couple it with target searches like scam and fraud. Ugly.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:48:17 +0000

It’s good to know My3Cents and ComplaintsBoard respond promptly to evidence of false comments and false negative reviews.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:33:00 +0000

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I intend to share this information with some of my coworkers. I did not know something could be done about negative, false reviews. The web needs to be better regulated, so that honest businesses are not crippled by slanderous posts.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:01:24 +0000

From what I have read it seems like there will be much more regulation coming in the internet in the near future. We shall see how that affects problems like this.

By: Wiley

Wiley — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:22:03 +0000

That was a really interesting read. It’s unfortunate that there seems to be little legal recourse that you can take against these sites. It would be nice if websites had to adhere to the same laws as physical entities. A newspaper, for instance, could not get away with publishing such blatantly obvious libel about companies without being sued.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:35:22 +0000

What an unfortunate story! It’s terrible that these practices are allowed to on more or less unchecked. It is also unfortunate that the majority of the complaint sites did nothing to help. Really makes you question their validity and a lot of what you read online.

By: Fionn

Fionn — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:57:45 +0000

Dylan, the legal options are being explored and yes it is expensive but ultimately we aim to get the necessary court orders to have the false information removed from the sites. We can then add this process to the case study. JImmy, all the spam linking has been reported to Google, all the spun content and the sites being used. For some reason Google has not yet devalued the spam links. They came to their senses on Rip Off Report eventually they will see the way that Pissed Consumer is being manipulated to cause harm and will hopefully take away its authority. Of course Pissed Consumer could avoid the fate of Rip Off Report if they had a mechanism in place to address these obvious false attacks but they hide behind CDA 230 and it will bite them eventually. I have made several attempts to contact them and they will not respond.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:15:40 +0000

Its sad that people will resort to all types of underhand schemes in the interest of making money. Its even worse when it revolves around discrediting another business. Karma will catch up with them though……