Monday, June 20, 2011

Manage Your Online Identity with: Google's Me On the Web

Manging your online identity in times today has become essentially crucial. Its all the more important for personal branding for individuals to whom brand really matters. And not just that, even for companies both small and large a managed brand presence online creates a lot of difference in they way they are positioned and perceived in the domain and the business world.

Google wants to help users better understand and manage their online identities, as well as learn how to remove unwanted content from Google search results.

Google: Me on the Web
Google's new offering, me on the web has made it far more easier for people to actually manage their reputation online.

Its fairly simple, with the easy to work around Dashboard which Google has created, almost anyone with a Google account, can track their online mentions, view their public profiles on various social networking sites and blogs, manage their overall digital presence and positioned identity. And not just that, many a times you face an issue of how to remove unwanted items about you. your business from the web. Google's Me on The Web helps you do that too!!

What does me on the web provides?

The Google official blog says: Me on the Web also provides links to resources offering information on how to control what third-party information is posted about you on the web. These include common tips like reaching out to the webmaster of a site to ask for the content to be taken down, or publishing additional information on your own to help make less relevant websites appear farther down in search results. 

How does this help SMEs?
In more ways than one. Obviously now you have a one stop to go to, when it comes to manage everything online about your business's online identity. Also now you have the power to know what it takes to manage third party content written about you online. While you can not just see this content, you also have the power to raise a concern and look at how to remove such content if it's not the manner in which it is to be in.

There are many such online tools available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!

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