How to Bury a Negative Online Comment??

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I've been setting up profiles on social networks and creating links to the posts below the negative one.

Canonical - you mentioned

Re 1. So I only create profiles on the sites that dofollow their links, like on this list http://www.earnersblog.com/social-bookmarking-list/

Re 2. if its a brand new profile on a social network will it eventually get indexed (or do some social networking sites block crawling for their site profiles) and how long does this usually take.

Sincere thanks for all the other suggestions especially the one that says to stop clicking on the negative link which we've been doing a lot over the last few days.

The blog with the comment is old and hasn't been updated in years so there's no point in contacting the writer - which, judging by what else he's written about others, wouldn't be very helpful anyway.

Thanks again for all you help.

 

As far as google removing it...they wont...and you don't have enough money to scare them with a lawsuit, I am pretty positive their lawyers are more plentiful, paid and powerful than yours.

You might get the original blogger to remove it, but odds are, it will be in google (and other engines) for quite some time.

Its obviously what google considers credible...so simply "blogging" or "forum posting" wont do it. You need an aggressive campaign to get the engines to list differently for the same keywords.

is it something that effects him monetarily? like is it something believable? something an employer or client would find and decide not to work with him?

there is a technique called search engine saturation...it is not cheap, but it is very effective. It can be used for negative or positive results for any person or company.

will cost you about 2000 per attempt. usually once per week. depending on how much negative is out that has to over come 1 week may do it, or it may take 8

but it always works...the engines just get overwhelmed with "fresh" and "credible" information the other stuff gets relegated down to the nether pages of results.

PM me or IM me if he needs this done.

 

The best and the most effective way to get rid of negative online publicity is to create articles and press releases and distribute them online targeting those particular negative key-phrases where your info appears. What you have to do is write a response with something positive and explanatory in your defense. I personally think that negative comments should be reviewed first by webmasters before they make them public. Both parties should be aware of each other, otherwise anyone can write something negative about anybody, and if that person has no clue how to combat this, they will suffer the consequences.

 

Ok - I have spent 5 days building backlinks using do follow links with the name as the anchor text and linking to the positive url's under the negative one. I have used social network profiles, yahoo/google bookmarks, rss, images and comments on high pr dofollow blogs.

The negative comment has now moved off the first serps page on my country specific google search but is still first on google.com

My focus is to move this post using pr backlinks.

Can anyone explain why my efforts are having no effect on google.com?

 

honestly you are going about it the wrong way. and whoever told you to use that strategy does not understand googles ranking method.

YOU WILL NOT get that link to move down by "link building"

all you are going to do is make that link even more relevant.

call me and i will give you a free 15 minuted overview on google's intelligence

 

I ran across such an example as well
The owner of the reno business luckily had not heard of the post -even though it was a year old
It was more than a direct attack by a former disgruntled girlfriend who made terrible sexual innuendos and worse ( 14 year old girls etc) , along with terrible spelling. On top of that the site was a "sue us , you cannot do anything and we like the fun of being sued site"
In this luckily it was not visible
Its not so much that you want to move the offending site but dislodge or displace it to oblivion - or at least many pages back
Look what keywords terms are bringing up the post for the main
Then create blogs about that topic or topics - involving those keywords in the links. It can be websites or blogs. Blogs get a lot of value
Use that topic and those keywords in the posts
Even link from one site to another ( have them on different web hosts / ips)
The aim is to make your posts more visible and displace the offending ones
One other point before you start - do an incoming link analysis of the offending site. It will give you some idea of whether it will be a hard or easy task. On top of that it will give you insight into keywords
Lets hope that the offender was not too bright or determined in their task - to leave a lot of valid incoming links to give the post much weight.

Hope that this helps

 

I recently had a bit of a similar problem, here is the post I made about reputation management and I will soon turn it into a more informative case study.

 

Give it a little time, SEO can take weeks or months, its lucky you are seeing any effects at all so soon.

I think you are on the right track with your efforts, I doubt if the offending post had any SEO done to it at all so it should be easy to push down.

 

Thanks for the help guys. It has really surprised me how difficult it is to get a listing to drop.

BusinessCoach highlighted probably the biggest factors in its apparent immovability which is the age and content "quality" of the blog. Although it hasn't been added to in years and the keyword isn't competitive, when it was being maintained it was done so regularly and with original content (with links to "authority" gov sites) that people responded to with comments. For that reason I guess Google thinks its worthy over all other results and for that reason its going to be difficult to shift.

 

and don't forget its actually in the TITLE of the page

so it's not just a page that mentions his name its an ENTIRE webpage ABOUT HIM in google's mind.

 

Though it sounds fun, this is not a very good idea. Such a tactic will only work if the original offender has more to lose. Plus it can backfire. I would suggest going through Goggle first. I recommend flagging the blog from different IP's for objectionable content in a time frame of 2-3 weeks.

Can not say if it's gonna work without seeing the actual blog but if the comments section is still accepting comments, you can make a few nasty comments, place links to porn sites, etc. and then flag the blog.

 

Right - I opened Firefox and typed his name into google.com To my surprise the negative comment had dropped to 2nd position.

However I then opened IE, went to google.com - entered his name and its still number one - whats going on here does any one know? Whey am I getting 2 different results on google.com for the same words, same site, but different browser.

Ooooh, I thought my work was finally starting to pay off.

 

interesting dynamic.

my first thoughts are that you have a computer of osme "name brand" and/or your got firefox from some promotion

so embedded within the browser itself is someone brand...maybe dell etc.

Especially in IE

a good way to know if this is the case, is if you every mistype something in the address bar, and you come up to a SEARCH PAGE (instead of just an error)

with that being the case, you may be getting filtered results, or results from a specific data center

just one theory.

 

Thanks BC - sounds like your right. I tried the search on a different pc and both searches came in no.1
However doing well on yahoo - dropped to last result on first page now

I was sooo happy when I thought it had started to drop on Google, mmm I think it will happen...eventually.

Thanks for your insight again BC

 

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