How to remove a rip off report from Search Engines’s top pages.
An increasing amount of individuals as well as businesses are being affected by so called ‘consumer complaints sites. What is frustrating and arguably unfair is that these sites offer no opportunity for legitimate individuals and businesses to remove those listings.
On most of these complaint sites, There is often no way of having the listings removed. Even if those allegations against you are not accurate, those listings will not be taken down by the admin of the site.
Having a negative listing rank on the first page is a very disturbing situation Often you don’t even know who wrote the inflammatory post.Is this a legitimate customer complaint? Or maby an employee or competitor? What comes natural is to reply to the post and respond to these allegations on those forums. However, a response is a really bad idea. Here is why:
The more you interact with these sites the higher the chances are that you inflame the situation. There have been attempts made to force these sites to take down the negative listing with a lawsuit. However, these sites argue that they are only providing a platform and are not to be held responsible for the content that is being hosted on those sites.
By posting your comments you increase the amount of activity on this post. Search Engines like Google look at this increased activity as in important indicator that this post might be of interest and rank the listing higher on search engines. Google in particular considers this posting as a sign that there is an interest in this article. In addition to that chances are that the other party responds to your comments, which has a tendency to boost the rankings of those listings.
How to remove a rip off report?
The sad truth is that you cannot actually delete the negative listing. Even if the person who posted the article decides to delete the listing. Not even the person who wrote the complaint can actually remove the listing after the fact.
So what is the strategy to suppress the listing?
We are able to remove a Rip Off Report from the top pages on relevant search engines. We achieve this by implementing a two prong process.
Step 1: As part of an Online Reputation Management campaign we develop a large list of positive listings. We develop micro sites, business listings, article syndications and press releases, all designed to fill the top pages on Google and other search engines and outrank the rip off report. However in almost all cases this approach by itself is not sufficient in removing a Rip Off Report from the top on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Your positive listings need to be promoted in order to over rank and push down the rip off report.
Second Step: After about two months many of the newly created profiles should start to rank in the top pages on search engines. Depending on the keyword competitiveness some of them have already surpassed the rip off report and therefore pushed the listing downward. However, In order to remove the rip off report from the top page on Google we push the positive URL’s that are below the rip off report. As these listings surpass the rip off report we target a new set of positive listings that are not yet above the rip off report until we see the ripoff report listing drop down to page two or beyond.
