How To Get Rid Of Bad Press Online
June 22, 2008
If someone has written something bad about you online there is hope on how to get rid of it or at least bury it. The first thing that you can do, is contact whoever is in charge of the website that mentions you in a negative or at least unwanted way and see if s/he will take it down. It will still live on at Google for a while but will eventually go away. If that is not feasible the the next best option is to bury it.
Develop as much content on the internet that is positive or at least neutral. To flood the internet with your name you can:
- Start your own website
- Write a Blog
- Write lots of book reviews on Amazon
- Make sure that your LinkedIn profile is up to date and complete
- Make sure that all business organizations, churches and alumni organizations that you are connected with have your name and preferably website listed on their websites.
- Comment on news stories & other people’s blogs and sign everything with your full name and link to your website/blog (see my post on how to sign with a link here)
Basically you want to populate the web with as many references to you as you can so that any negative press is buried on the second or later page of search results which are rarely viewed. If your negative press is not going away you should then and only then respond to it in a blog entry or website just so that someone really wanting to learn about can read your side of the story.
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This information is very helpful, thank you for taking the time to write this blog. Michelle Cappabianca