Reputation Defender Reviews 421

TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Having been a business owner over the last 30 years or so, I've learned about how much the visibility of my business websites rely on properly performed search engine results optimization. This can ge... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I don’t know how they got 617 data points on me as I’ve never used their site but they definitely found a way to scan my phone through another service, found on dark web or purchased from another comp... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Competent staff and great service. After taking time to fully complete the background sections during set-up, it's very much a set-it-and-forget-it product. Norton does their thing in the background w... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I initially engaged with Reputation shortly after they launched their business. They delivered excellent results then, and they've done so again recently. The outcomes have been truly fantastic. Fal... See more

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  1. Online Marketing Agency
  2. Media Company

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ReputationDefender helps individuals and organizations take control of their online presence when it matters most. Whether you’re dealing with negative search results, unwanted exposure, or ongoing privacy risks, we provide discreet, high-touch support to assess the situation, build a strategy, and execute on your behalf. ReputationDefender is part of Gen Digital, Inc.., a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom with a family of trusted consumer brands.


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4.4

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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Jay has been amazingly helpful for…

Jay has been amazingly helpful for years on behalf of this company. Jay always provides valuable information in an extremely timely fashion and has impressive knowledge and experience.

Thank you for being there and being so helpful always, greatly appreciated!

July 7, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Thank you for the great review, LR! We love hearing that Jay has provided valuable and timely support for you over the years.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

REPUTATION DEFENDER is a TERRIBLE company

Dealing with Reputation Defender has been nothing short of bunch of lies and manipulation. Their representative Yorick Hempstead did not deliver anything close to what he promised. The company charged me a lot of money without providing the results that they said will get me. First, they said they will suppress the negative content within first 6 months. When that did not happen, they said it will take 12 months.. Now, after 12 months, the negative content has not been supressed and it will not be. I would not recommend this company to anyone. Their employees make a lot of promises, but do not not make them happen. If you want to waste your money, and not want to see actual results of what you paid for, go with this company. There are many other companies in the same line of business who wont rip you off.

May 12, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Hi, Mikaela. We're sorry to hear that our services did not meet your expectations and that the promised outcomes weren't achieved within the discussed timeframe.

We take all feedback seriously and would like to review your case to see how we can make things right for you as well as improve our service delivery in the future. However, we do not have an account listed under the name "Mikaela," so we are unable to see what happened. This is why we asked you to provide additional contact information via Trustpilot last week.

Please reach out to let us help you. Although we understand if you feel the need to move on. Either way, we wish you success in resolving your search results problem.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Caleb at Reputation Defender made…

Caleb at Reputation Defender made everything work out great!

July 3, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

We're happy to hear that everything worked out well. Thank you for sharing your positive experience with us!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The Best Customer Service!

I recently called Reputation Defender and had the pleasure of speaking to an extremely kind and informative representative, Bryan Chapman. While my current problem might not rise to the level of needing to hire Reputation Defender, I was greatly impressed with our conversation. He was extremely friendly, helpful, patient, a good listener, and super knowledgeable. I sincerely appreciated his help, and I highly recommend using Reputation Defender. If my issue becomes more serious, I will DEFINITELY be hiring them. Thanks for the excellent customer service, and kudos to Bryan!

July 2, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback! We're happy to hear that you had a positive and informative experience and appreciate your recommendation.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This was the best decision I have made. Yorick is awesome

The service and continued attention has soooo much exceed my expectations. I was nervous, like most, about doing this.

I could not be more happy. 5 star all the way.

I had a few blemishes from my younger days. Now I work in public media.

Yorick is absolutely amazing. He sincerely cares.

Thank you very much

May 14, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

We're happy to hear that your experience surpassed your expectations! We appreciate you sharing your positive feedback and are so glad you're pleased with the care you received. Thank you!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Silver

Silver, was professional, helpful, and cleared 'all' my concerns. Thank you.
PS I was lucky to have him on my call.

April 28, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

We're happy to hear that your concerns were cleared and that you had a helpful and professional experience. Thank you for sharing!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

REPUTATION DEFENDER - A MUST TO AVOID

This is a must to avoid company and at one time, I believe they had a stellar reputation. They ruined it with lies to their customer as well as a very expensive price tag. I hired RD for a year, very expensive but I trusted they were the best, THEY WERE NOT EVEN CLOSE. My only reuqets was to rempove all my personal information, nothing complicated. And they promised everything I asked for. In fact, it was their most basic job description. S as it got closer to renewal time and I already had my doubts, as they were contacting me four months before my contract was up and wanting to me to renew. I started checking online doing a VERY SIMPLE Google search. AN immediate repsonse to my name I use every daqy of my life. My iformation was all over the web. There were pages of all my information on every site. There was information that was not even there before, such as a job I started after enrolling in RD in 2024. Well that job and my position now was added to all my other personal information. These people did nothing of what they promised so for the whole time, my information was never removed from the web. I was livind, angry, called them. Their repsonse was "they disagreed with me" Well that prompted to me to file a complaint against them with the avaialble agencies. And I paid $1000.00 and I am still under contract, soon to be over this year. I wil never have anything to d with this company and will surely give my personal experience to anyone who asks. I hope to keep as many away from RD as I can. They RIPPED ME OFF.

April 11, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

We appreciate you sharing your experience. We're sorry to hear that our services did not meet your expectations and that you encountered issues with the removal of your personal information. We take your concerns seriously and will review your case to understand how we can improve our processes.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very friendly and honest company

I made an inquiry and Stuart from Liverpool was absolutely unbelievable helpful and if I ever have a situation similar to this again, I will definitely be ringing them up. Thanks again, STUART mate.

March 21, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

We're happy to hear that the inquiry was handled so well! We appreciate the positive feedback and are glad that the assistance provided was helpful. We are here to help!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good experience

Mhat made my experience great was having the pleasure of speaking to your representative Waylon. He explained everything with exact precision. I hope to use your service in the near future.

February 28, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

We are so glad to hear that you had a positive experience with our representative Waylon. We strive to provide our customers with the best possible service, and we are delighted that Waylon was able to explain everything clearly and accurately. We hope to see you again soon.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The most important thing about the…

The most important thing about the service is that it is genuine and trustworthy. In this world full of scammers, I found reputation defender not scam.

July 1, 2024
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Hi, Ajitha,

Thanks so much for reviewing us! We appreciate your kind words and are glad you found our service genuine and trustworthy.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They are the absolute worst

They are the absolute worst. Over promised and under delivered by a mile. They claimed to be able to target different variations of my name and online profile. Then later claimed that they were only targeting my name alone. When asked about this, the staff kept telling me they would review with management and call me back. They never called back, despite saying they would four separate times. The "results" were supposed to be permanent. It isn't. They attempt to extort more money from you at the end of every year. Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere. And in the event that management is reviewing this, the staff member that dropped the ball (numerous times) is Brittany Samuel.

January 30, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Hi, Gabriel,

We apologize for your poor experience with ReputationDefender and completely understand your frustration with the service you received.

Our goal is to provide our customers with the best possible experience, and it's clear that we fell short in this instance.

As such, one of our team members will be reaching out to you to see if there's a way we can make things right.

We appreciate you bringing this to our attention and will use your feedback to improve our processes.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unending Sales Calls from Reputation Defender

Update Mar 5, 2025: Since I wrote this in Feb & RD checked into it, the calls have totally stopped. I appreciated their quick response & correction of the issue.

I have never used Reputation Defender (RD). I mistakenly checked something to look at it as a long time Norton user. I am now bombarded with phone calls once or twice a week from different numbers from "Anna" who wants me to call her about RD. I don't answer calls from unknown numbers and block each one & add it to my spam list. This has been going on for about 6 months. If this is any indication of how they do business, I would be very leery of them.

February 9, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Hi, Mary,

Thanks for writing this review. We checked our records to see how many calls you were getting and were horrified to see how many times you were contacted. Clearly, something went wrong on our end for our representatives to be calling you that much.

We are sorry for the frustration this situation has caused you and appreciate you bringing this to our attention. We will investigate this matter further and take appropriate action so that future consumers don't experience this level of outreach.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have been a client with Reputation…

I have been a client with Reputation Defender for 5 years. For 4 1/2 years I have made slow progress suppressing negative articles that were written appropriately 28 years ago. To be precise, a negative article appeared as article 3 on page one and articles 11 and 13 on page two when doing an internet search. I was only able to gain ground by pushing these articles down to page two or three. It was very frustrating to say the least. The Reputation Defender representatives assigned to me over the years simply asked me to be patient yet they did not actively and aggressively make any changes to the strategy, written content focus, or lift a finger to assist me with my progress.

Then I was assigned a new account representative named Yorick. After having had a number of account reps switched out on me (they took new jobs), I was convinced that I was in for the same level of performance. I couldn't have been more wrong!

Yorick immediately contacted me to discuss my account, past progress, and how he intended to approach things differently with a new strategy, focus, and action steps. He immediately got one of the negative articles eliminated. I mean eliminated! There were now only two negative articles remaining. Yorick stepped up content generation and moved the second negative article from page 2 to page 3. He didn't stop there. He stayed on it and continued working to push the articles farther down until only one negative article remained on page 3.

As of three days ago, all 3 negative articles have been pushed past page 5. In other words, they do not show up on the first 3 pages of what you would find through a search. Absolutely incredible! I never thought it could be done and had quite frankly considered terminating my contract with Reputation Defender.

My gratitude and appreciation goes out to Yorick, My only regret is that I only wish I had met him 5 years ago.

When you have been unjustly accused of something that never occurred and it has almost ruined your life, I know how depressing and all consuming it becomes. It destroys the most important asset you hold - your reputation. You are not deemed innocent, but guilty of whatever anyone wants to publish about you. It haunts you and crushes your self esteem. You are embarrassed around family members and friends. New acquaintances do a background check and you are always forced to defend yourself. It is horrible, and worse, it sticks with you.

Thank you Yorick, You have make this nightmare go away and I am grateful to you.

February 10, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Hi, Andy,

Thanks for taking the time to review us.

While we are glad to hear about your positive experience with Yorick, we are sad to learn you felt your previous advisors weren't putting in the effort required to suppress the unfair accusation that was negatively impacting your life. Frankly, this is unacceptable.

We want all our team members to provide the best possible service to our clients, and we are committed to continuous improvement. As such, we will share your valuable feedback with our team to ensure that what happened to you never happens again and that all our advisors are meeting the needs of our clients.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Did not remove my personal info from the internet

Waste of time and money. I spent $2500 to have my personal information removed from the internet. My primary contact was Andrew, and the person who sold me the package was Dil. I was promised that my full legal name associated with my stage name would be removed from the website. They removed some of my personal information from phone number database websites. However, the particular website that invades my right to privacy and poses a safety is still active.

November 22, 2024
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Hi, R.A.,

We sincerely apologize for your poor experience with ReputationDefender. We want all our customers to come away from an engagement with us feeling satisfied and supported. In your case, however, it seems we dropped the ball.

To figure out what happened, we listened to your initial phone conversation and were dismayed to hear our team member over-promise regarding the types of sites we can remove your personal data from.

While we were able to remove your information from numerous sites, we can't remove it from the sites you cared about most, and our team member should not have raised your expectations in this area.

Rest assured, we will be refunding you the full amount of your package. One of our advisors will be reaching out shortly to discuss this with you.

Thank you for bringing this problem to our attention. We will use your case as an example to train our team members on what not to do.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

WASTE OF MY MONEY!

They keep flagging my review so that you guys won’t see it! I’ll keep uploading it for the people to see my honest review! Working with this company was a WASTE OF MY MONEY, The quality of service was way less than I expected. What gained my trust was “Nortons” Reputation. If it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t have paid this much for the service. Best believe I paid big bucks for the bare minimum, literally. They charged 10 times more than the average company and what I got was not better than the average company! They sold me on the idea of having an account manager who communicates with me along the way lol their “account manager” Jay Jones was so half ass almost as if he couldnt be bothered with his job as well as the sales representatives AJ, from what I got he cared about making the sale that’s about it. I paid for the service around November 30 and asked for a refund as soon as I realized this was A MISTAKE. It’s February 11 and to this day I haven’t received a single penny. They called a few times and gave me the run around. Last time they called and said they will have the manager contact me to this day a manager didn’t call. I would NOT recommend working with these people! I GOT NO REFUND! Their favorite thing to say is “we’re a big company that’s publicly traded” but every big company I know is quick to refund dissatisfied customers. I should have gone with one of the “small” companies, at least I would have gotten my money’s worth or a refund if I’m not pleased with their service or lose a small amount of money if they refuse to refund.

**** They just replied to my review (more than 1 month later): I'll be sure to let you guys know if they actually issue a refund or if the comment is just a cover to make them look good.

January 24, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Hi, Sasha,

We are deeply sorry for the difficulty you've had getting a refund and the worry and stress this has caused you. No customer should feel like they are being ignored.

Rest assured that we are investigating how and why our processes broke down in your particular case and will work with our team members to ensure this doesn't happen again to any of our clients.

One of our people will be reaching out to you to discuss the refund and how we can make things right.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Overpriced for nothing. Big rip off

Overpriced for what you will get. First of all the communication sucks. I paid half of the $1,000 fee and for weeks no one update me on the progress. They will contact you relentless to get the money. After paying the money I still had no luck with my online profile particularly the misdemeanor arrest that prevented me from getting a job. I contacted reputation defender and was told I only paid for the basic package. I did not know what I paid for did not include criminal background assistance. If you decide to use RD make sure you mention in detail what your expected outcome should be. I ended up contacting the sites on my own to opt out of online profiles for several sites. After RD is paid in full it appears no one will follow up with you.

October 24, 2024
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Hi, Bernietown,

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. While we always strive to ensure all clients understand what each package entails before they commit and feel supported throughout the process, it's obvious we've failed to do so in your case. For this, we sincerely apologize.

We want to assure you that we take your concerns seriously and will use this feedback to improve our internal processes and communications.

To reclaim your trust and improve your results, we'd like to offer an extension of your package -- free of charge. Just reach out to your advisor.

If, however, you'd rather part ways, we absolutely understand and wish you the best of luck in solving your online privacy issue.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I appreciate how the project continues…

I appreciate how the project continues to deliver the product well.

January 6, 2025
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Reply from Reputation Defender

We appreciate your kind words and are glad to hear you are satisfied with our product. Your feedback is valuable to us as we strive to continuously improve our offerings.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

informative, helpful and kind

Nate had answers to all my questions as well as making some suggestions. He was very kind and understanding of my situation.

December 4, 2024
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Thank you for the review, Mike! We're so glad to hear that Nate was able to help you. We appreciate your kind words and will share your feedback with Nate.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I was having trouble with search engines linking my name to another person- RL

I was having trouble with search results for my name on the Internet, it turns out that a person with the same first and last name as mine, was convicted of a serious crime. To make the circumstantial matters worse the person lives in the same city/county.
I contacted Reputation Defender and Brittany Samuels was assigned to assist me. I am very pleased with the results. Rep. Defender was able to remove my name from the common search systems, and eliminate the erroneous ties on the Web.
Brittany was always available to talk if I had a question, and she called me several times over the last year to update me on the latest scans. I highly recommend them and Brittany Samuels as one of their representatives. Knowledgeable, friendly and effective!!

September 13, 2024
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Reply from Reputation Defender

Hi, Robert,

Thank you for taking the time to review us! We are so glad to hear you were pleased with your results and the support Brittany provided over the course of your engagement. We think Brittany is pretty great too!

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