By afterworkhours.com

Never going online or letting anyone take pictures of you is not the way to manage your E-reputation. Here is what you can do to protect and boost your E-reputation.

• Set Your Own Reputation. Don’t let someone else create your rep create your own digital strategy and get online and establish a strong positive presence.

• Google your name frequently. No this is in no way vain but will show you where you appear online.

•  Check any online aliases as these may be tracked back to you in the future.

• Check all social media sites regularly to ensure you are aware of everything being said about you personally and professionally.

• Post your own information regularly not only is you determining what are out there about you but you are also ensuring there is more good about you than bad.

• Use SEO to ensure your preferred mentions are in the top results for your personal and professional brand.

• Make sure you secure all your accounts so that they may not be used by hackers to conduct damaging activities.

• Use image search to monitor posting and tags of your image on social media and ask others to remove unflattering mentions of you from social sites.

• Use the groups privacy setting on Facebook to ensure what your  posting is only seen by those you want to see it.

Everything you say and do online has an impact on your reputation. With 63% of social media sites are being checked by recruiters and 78% of recruiters and HR professional referring to personal websites when deciding whether or not to hire you. It’s never been a better time to proactively manage the content about you online.