Five tools to help keep your reputation clean

First I felt let down because there was hardly anything to this article, nor did I like the presentation method used. It seemed like someone was just trying to show off a new tool they found.

Then I read the comments, only to find that about half of them strongly disagree with one recommendation, with no rebuttals from other readers. Since there is no healthy debate regarding the value of this one recommendation I've inferred that TR didn't do its homework and gave poor information. This one recommendation seems to be not only unhelpful, but also one to be avoided.

I thought the purpose of sites like TR is that industry insiders distill the gobs of relevant industry information into accurate and useful articles for subscribers. Am I missing something here?

I have a this personal page and I have that business page, but I am not about to put hours and hours of time into these, only to have some whatever (do-gooder, go-getter) decide he is better then me and splatter my information or some type of ill-will about me on the almighty WEB. We have gone way far away from the good part about the web to a point where some people have virtually no privacy at all - I will prize my privacy for ever.
If I have to rely on programs like this, heaven help me!

...and had to decline, because they were asking me TOO many questions(personal) It got to a point that was uncomfortable. I figured what are they going to do with this info? I contacted them and asked for my account to be taken off.

This is certainly a provocative and salient topic for modern times. However it appears that the article may have been mismatched from its intended subject matter? Perhaps simply a switched title from a different article.

I agree with LalaReads. I think the article was very lean regarding useful recommendations..