Reputation Management

Bad Yelp Review Leads to $750,000 Lawsuit

Bad Yelp Review Leads to $750,000 Lawsuit
Guest post Provided by Review Mediation Have you ever carelessly posted a Yelp review? Watch out, it could come back to bite you. For one unlucky reviewer, the bill for her scathing commentary might be $750,000 -- you read that right. On Yelp, and other sites, Jane Perez typed out her dissatisfaction after Christopher Dietz did some construction work for her. Dietz in turn took her to court saying her comments amounted to defamation; the courts agreed with him and Perez had to take down specific segments of her written reviews. Along with…Read more

How To Work To Erase Bad Reviews Online

How To Work To Erase Bad Reviews Online
Article provided by Reputation Stars Every business runs into unhappy customers, and in many instances it can only take one unhappy customer to create a very negative perception about what you offer in terms of products or services. A negative review that appears on an internet site can do a lot of trouble for you, spreading on social networks, linking in news stories, comments sections, and more. There are ways that you can help fight these negative reviews though and work to bury them so that they are not the first thing people read about…Read more

Bing’s New Policy on Removing Defamatory Content

Bing’s New Policy on Removing Defamatory Content
In a new article published in SearchEngineWatch.com,  Pierre Zarokian writes about the changes in Bing’s policy on removing sites from its search engine based on court orders. It appears that several attorneys have found out that Bing refuses to remove certain content from its search engine, even after a court of order declares the content defamatory. This could be bad news for companies that have defamatory content posted against them.  This technique was one of the only ways you can get defamatory posts removed from such sites as Ripoff Report.  Some of these court orders are actually honored by Ripoff Report itself,…Read more