There has been an issue here. Someone has posted in a mailing an defamatory article of our company. I tried contacting the mailing list manager and he hasnt responded as yet. So I thought of a plan. What if I duplicate that pages content on a high PR page and later when that page gets the duplicate content filter slowly change our page's content. Or do you people have another idea in mind. Please PM me for the URL.
I dont think that duplicating the pages content will do you much good. How long have you been waiting for a reply from the manager at the mailing list ?? Are there any other email addresses that you can use to try and contact someone there. I think it would be best to try and get this solved in a diplomatic manner, rather than duplicating content, and looking like you are really pushing to damage the other site in return.
Is the article in a mailing? or is it posted on a page? your best best is to optimize pages about your company to rank higher than the defamatory one....bury it to the 3rd page or below
Better solve it in a ethical and diplomatic way rather than trying to duplicate the page and so on...since that would take a long time and its better if you do it ethically!!
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