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Glen Allsopp · 1 year ago

Great post once again, we are really starting to show ourselves as authorities on this subject lately ;)

Forrest · 1 year ago

You really can't just remove negative content about yourself from other sources. When Consumerist posted the infamous confessions of a Dell salesman and Dell responded with a DMCA takedown notice, the community justifiably went crazy. People with no real interest in Dell one way or the other, who might have bought one on sale, saw this as an example of a big, evil corporation crushing free speech to protect its bottom line. They apologized a few days later.

That's not to say you shouldn't deal with criticism, especially when it's unfounded ... just be extremely careful!

Eletitor · 1 year ago

It is a fact! I have been working for a pretty important SEO company in Spain and I have been firee under the false suspiction I was working for my own. NOW I have my own SEO company but they send false details of me to my customers. Is there any way to detect that in advance?
Thanks
Eletitor

Brett Borders · 1 year ago

@Eletitor,

Are they e-mailing your customers? How do they know which ones are your customers?

I don't know the answer to your situation, but taking care of reputation management issues in ADVANCE is very important. If you have your own company, you need to (have someone) build a "firewall" of 10 to 20 properties and pages for your brand name, so that user-generated opinions and content will have to take a back seat to the properties YOU CONTROL.

If you are a professional or a career person, you need to give this some serious thought also. Even if someone else messes up, it can cause a lot of grief if people (investors, HR departments) confuse the two of you online.

Glen Allsopp · 1 year ago

I'm just starting on a government website now so I'll let you know how it goes ;)

Dr. Sherman S. Smith · 1 year ago

I have a negative SEC page since 2002 that won't go away. I have spent thousands with companies that won't return my money. Is there anything that can be done? I am through these problems, and the web page is hurting my future.

zgirl · 1 year ago

I put in an appeal with the Dept. of Labor re: workplace harassment. They ruled in the aggressor's favor, his name was not mentioned in the report and now this negative .gov link is the first result for my name. Ahhhh!!!!! It can't be helpful to my online reputation. I was advised by Dept of Labor to cntact the Human Rights Commission. Is this a hopeless path? The workplace bully is a SEO whiz by the looks of it as it is obvious he actively manages his own online rep with help from his cronies. The negative document re: me has sifted up to the very top even though there are prominent people with my same name leading me to suspect sabotage. What to do?

Dean J. Saluti · 7 months ago

Interesting article, in particular the ranking of various sites based upon difficulty of removal. What sites do people recommend to learn about what to do if you are faced with this situation?

West Coast Vinyl · 6 months ago

In regards to ripoff site, when you say its a bit of elbow grease work, do you mean building enough linking to other sites to outrank ripoff?

mrucemc · 2 weeks ago

@Eletitor,

It’s interesting that you have your own SEO company, but have apparently not realized that you can use SEO tools to remove the negative info about you from the net. SEO is a major tool used by online reputation companies to shove bad info up the net’s wazoo. You can use your company’s resources to look into this or you can hire people to do this for you. A friend of a friend hired a firm called Reputation Technologies. http://www.reputec.com/ Check them out.