The page at SpreadingSantorum.com, created by columnist Dan Savage as a protest against Santorum’s views about homosexuality, has maintained its position in the top results on Google for years. The page defines “santorum” as:

The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.

To understand more of the history of the site, and how it ended up doing so well on Google (and Bing, Yahoo and Baidu), see my previous article, Should Rick Santorum’s “Google Problem” Be Fixed?

Rick Santorum is a character who is not well liked by homosexual-rights activists, but this seems overboard. Still, it has helped a lot of people to figure out why Santorum is not very well liked by that community.

The graphic shows that Yahoo search has declined pretty suddenly over the last month of reports and that Google has benefited from that. Online reputation management deals with search engines a good deal, so this is vital information.

To avoid any indecent Internet exposure, some of the city’s biggest institutions are snapping up corresponding domain names ending in “.xxx” to make sure they are never bought by or associated with adult entertainment websites.Mary Rodgers, who works in marketing and communications at the city, said the IT department had just purchased www.citywindsor.xxx on Tuesday.

“It’s to protect our reputation,” Rodgers said. “We’re not going to use it, but we own it.”

This makes a great deal of sense. It will help the City of Windsor to protect its online reputation.

Removing The Offending Material
This is why the services of a company that can quickly remove negative comments about your organization from the top pages of search engines must be employed as soon as possible. As already mentioned, high quality, informative SEO writing and digital content is the best way to remove comments that could damage your company’s reputation. You need an organization that can issue press releases, write fresh articles and blog posts, create social awareness and post videos onto sites like YouTube. An all-out SEO assault will help you quickly regain your favorable reputation.

The solution is not SEO per-se, but online reputation management specialists.

If a Google search of your name instantly pulls up photos of keg stands or a blog post you wrote about your wild Spring Break during your junior year, it’s safe to say that your professional image is less than stellar. But you already knew that, right? (We hope you did. If not, you might want to open a new tab and head over to Google to get started on your personal damage control.)

As unpleasant as it may seem, it’s undeniable that the Internet is a great place for finding scandalous or even slightly unflattering information about people. If you’ve spun even the slightest thread on the World Wide Web, your career and reputation can be significantly affected by what you’ve shared.

The Internet matters. Your on the web reputation is just as important as your off the web reputation and they actually have a major effect on each other whether you want them to or not.

Jimdo is a site that is both free and high quality. You can create your own domain and website at Jimdo. Essentially, you are creating a subdomain that can be found at BlahBlah.Jimdo.com. If, for example, I’m a soccer enthusiast, I might put “SoccerFan.Jimdo.com” as my URL. I do, in fact, have my own website, but it is a subdomain of Jimdo.

For people who are out to use their website for online reputation management services reasons, this is perfect. Google reputation management is a big reason why services like this even exist. People want to make sure theirname.jimdo.com is taken by them, instead of some anonymous Internet malcontent who wants to do their online reputation harm.

According to powerful public relations figure Lord Bell, stars that have their reputations trashed online must be careful not to overreact. “I think it was the chief executive of Google who said there were a billion blogs and they have an average readership of one.

This is certainly true. There are countless blogs on the web which are really more like personal diaries. People may occasionally stumble upon them, but for the most part it is simply a small piece of the web that will only ever be seen by its author. Google reputation management still has to take these thousands of blogs into account, though,  because they can be quite damaging to an online reputation if used correctly.

Wix is a small, but growing more popular, startup that is based on creating free flash-based websites. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv and New York City. To date, over 8.7 million websites have been created through Wix.

Wix is a great tool for anyone who has a reputation management problem. Being able to create very attractive websites, and for free, is a wonderful resource for someone who wants to heal their reputation.

Communities.com is an international online community where people from all over the world (185 countries) meet, chat, flirt and interact every day. There are loads of things to do and it’s free to join!

The site allows you to set up profiles for free, integrate your profile into your larger social networking existence, and customize that profile as you see fit. Best of all, Communities.com is what you want it to be. What I mean by that is that it is not inherently invasive, though certainly if you would like it to mirror the personal-ness of a site like Facebook.

Communities.com is a great website for those looking for other social networking options.

Tagged is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has over 100 million registered members. Founded in 2004, the company now has forty employees. The site is very popular amongst older age brackets and has a high rate of overlap with Facebook membership, according to studies by Tagged itself.

Internet reputation management is not an easy thing, but it can be made more easy by controlling social networking profiles more exactly.