What is Internet Defamation and how do we fight back?
Internet defamation is usually posted with harmful intent, intentionally trying to damage someone’s reputation over the internet which also affects the professional career of the victim and personal life too. It can be destructive to both individuals and companies or smaller businesses.
A defamation is a false response published to harm the reputation of an individual or a company. Verbal offense concerning false statements is called slander, but when it’s published online it’s considered a libel, and the injured person or company can opt to sue its author. The slanderous accusations that cause damage to an injured party are termed as Internet Defamation.
Everyone prefers to search over the internet about the company or an individual before making any business agreement and imagine when they search your name or your company’s name and whatever they see is negative links and content about you on Search Engine Result Pages, this can definitely make you lose hundreds, thousands and millions of dollars. So it becomes very important to remove negative links or suppress them from the result pages.
You can adopt the following ways to fight back Internet Defamation and repair your reputation over the internet:
1. Contacting the Author
2. Fight Back
3. Taking Legal Action
4. Hire a Online Reputation Management Agency