Cyber Abuse: How to Clean Up Your Internet Reputation

The growing trend of blogging and free speech on the Internet brings with it a new brand of reputation bashing. It is called "cyber abuse". Cyber abuse is the unethical and relentless bashing of an individual's or companie's reputation on the Internet. The new age of the Internet has made it eerily simple for a disgruntled customer or worse, a ruthless business foe or personal enemy to ruin a reputation online. These cyber abusers use tactics such as blogging and posting negative comments in social network sites to bring down the Internet reputation of their cyber target. In years past there has been very little that the average citizen on the web could do to combat cyber abuse.

Recently an entire industry has been developed solely for the purpose of correcting cyber abuse issues. This industry is becoming more popular due to the growing importance of a positive Internet reputation. When the cyber abuse gets to the point that the individual or company is suffering losses they can reach out to an Internet reputation specialist. An Internet reputation specialist will take action to clean up the cyber abuse, such as developing new blogs and Internet websites that place the consumer in a neutral or positive light. The reputation specialist will set these websites up in a way that they will always come up in the top 10 results on Google or other search engines, usually they will be strong enough to cover the top 20 search results. Most Internet consumers will not look past the first two pages of search engine results. These Internet reputation specialists will also use other tactics such as social bookmarking sites and user generated content sites to enhance your reputation online.