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Dark post: Unpublished social ad used in advertising but not organically visible.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