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Crisis & Reputation Glossary

Vocabulary used across our engagements — concisely defined.

A – D

Attribution: Forensic identification of the source behind a coordinated attack.

Content suppression: SEO and publishing work that pushes negative URLs off page one.

Dark post: Unpublished social ad used in advertising but not organically visible.

DMCA takedown: Copyright-based content removal under 17 U.S.C. §512.

E – M

E-E-A-T: Google's Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trust ranking signals.

Holding statement: Pre-drafted, legal-approved short statement used during active crisis.

Knowledge Panel: Google's entity box sourced from Wikipedia, Wikidata, and schema.

Legal privilege: Communication protected from discovery via attorney-client relationship.

N – Z

NDA: Non-disclosure agreement bounding who can discuss what.

NIL: Name/Image/Likeness rights, primarily in athletics.

PII: Personally Identifiable Information.

Schema markup: Structured data (JSON-LD) that tells search engines what a page is.

Suppression: See 'content suppression'.

War-room: Crisis-response team working from a coordinated protocol.