Comments on: Do You Monitor Your Online Reputation?

By: Chris Marshall | Martial Development

Chris Marshall | Martial Development — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:32:58 +0000

If I monitor my reputation with Google–for free–then I know exactly what I’m getting. I’ll see whatever other searchers would see.

With a paid service like this, who knows? Should I just assume they are thorough?

Online reputation services have a long and dodgy history. Back around 2003, I remember getting email spams with the message “Only $10 to find out what people are saying about you!” (I assume the automated service itself did most of the “talking”.)

By: Ron B.

Ron B. — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:56:02 +0000

I guess I’m too new at all this, but wouldn’t just using a little discretion accomplish the same thing? Maybe that’s too simple . . .

By: Andrew G.R.

Andrew G.R. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:09:51 +0000

At least we know that Trackur works! Andy knew we were talking about him before we were talking about him! ;-)

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:59:12 +0000

Hmm.. interesting.

The purpose of this service is great and all, but I don’t think trackur did a complete research of similar services.

how about going a free route and use google, yahoo, technorati alerts that’ll notify you via rss of whoever is talking about whatever keyword your tracking…

Been doing this for months and I feel pretty satisfied with the results.

I don’t think I need to feel paranoid about whoever is talking about me, which is the vibe I’m getting from trackur. Successful people (in general) don’t waste their time worrying about whos talking about them-even more pay a service fee for it.

But wait, let’s say I do need this and pay for their service… and I find out someone’s saying something bad about me.. What’s next? Does trackur allow me to take action? If so, how? and what would trackur do that I can’t already deal with myself?

I guess I’m not in their targeted audience, eh?

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:39:22 +0000

This definitely appeals to a specific crowd. I just use bloglines. I wish I had a reputation worth paying $88 to protect. But there is a market for everything and in every price range. Good luck to Andy. Seems like a great tool I can only hope I’ll ever need.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:54:58 +0000

Thanks for covering the launch. Similar services cost more than a thousand dollars a month.

Who’ll see $88 as a bargain? Anyone that needs to know the instant a blogger is trashing their reputation. Surely that’s worth the cost of a Venti Starbucks a day? :-)