When doing business online, there is nothing more painful than to hear that a potential customer “Googled” your company or personal name and will not be doing business with you because of what they read online.
Today, you are defined by what appears about you online. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are lost each day because of false, defamatory or malicious search engine results. Whether the negative listings are from a competitor, a new site, or a message board, the impact can be financially challenging at best, and devastating at worst.
What is Internet defamation?
Internet Defamation is a negative false statement of material fact published on the Internet. With the Internet, defamatory statements can be published online to a worldwide audience, making Internet Defamation potentially disastrous to your reputation and to your business. It takes the expertise and experience of an Internet Defamation Lawyer to assist you in protecting your good name.
Examples of Internet defamation
Internet defamation can include false or misleading comments about a business on a website like Topix or Yelp. An ex-wife may post lies about her husband on a blog. An anonymous person may post false information about your company on a message board. Slanderous content on YouTube and posts on social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace can also cause harm to your reputation.
Fight Defamation by Anonymous Message Posters
A huge challenge holding people responsible for Internet defamation is that they will often post messages using anonymous e-mail addresses or screen names. Many people who post damaging content online believe that Web anonymity is a free-speech right, or that it makes them immune from prosecution.
The lawyers and attorneys of Pepper Law Group can help you file a John Doe lawsuit and use the subpoena power granted by it to force the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to provide any information they have about the anonymous poster. By using our vast legal and technical knowledge, in most cases we are able to determine the actual identity of the poster.
Powerful Legal AND Technological Strategies
Unlike other law firms or so-called reputation repair companies, only Pepper Law Group combines both proven legal AND technological strategies to achieve positive results. We use a powerful two-pronged approach in helping you rebuild your positive reputation: First, our Internet Law lawyers use their deep legal knowledge of Internet and Social Media law to help get the defamatory listings and comments removed, and keep a watchful eye so that they don't return, Next, we use our alliance with one of the industry’s leading reputation management consultants to get your brand message and positive press online in prominent places so it builds up authority over time, exactly like a word-of-mouth reputation, by promoting these assets via sophisticated and elegant search engine optimization (SEO) techniques.
Whether you are a high-profile business owner, multinational corporation, or a local not-for-profit organization, you can trust Pepper Law Group to help protect and preserve your valuable online reputation. To discuss your situation in confidence, contact us today.