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Reputation management help

by rbanks1
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I have an SEO client requiring reputation management. He is a public figure so I have to
be discrete. He has some negative articles about him written by some papers and some sites.
He wants the top two pages of Google to contain only positive links.

I have used Google removals and only two links out of 11 were removed.

I have signed up to as many free sites as possible to create profiles.
Tumblr, Pinterest, Flickr, Slideshare, Scribd etc etc

I have done this for 2 weeks. Uploaded articles he has written to sites. Uploaded pictures of his to sites. The negative links are not going down and nor are these free profiles rising.

Please give me some suggestions as to how to tackle this issue using only white hat techniques. I know one thing, these websites will never remove their content, so that is out of the question.

Thanks for your help, I appreciate any guidance at all!
#management #reputation
  • Profile picture of the author drschool
    It really depends on the sites you are trying to out-rank. There are a ton of stuff to take into consideration before really knowing what step to take next. Is all the content on the sites duplicate content from his main site?
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  • Profile picture of the author davidweb09
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      It usually takes more than just setting up a few profiles to outrank 2 pages worth of sites in Google.

      It's going to take a lot more work and effort than that, especially for a public figure. You are likely going to have to spend some significant money on this project to get good links and good news stories out there.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben West
    Originally Posted by rbanks1 View Post

    I have an SEO client requiring reputation management. He is a public figure so I have to
    be discrete. He has some negative articles about him written by some papers and some sites.
    He wants the top two pages of Google to contain only positive links.

    I have used Google removals and only two links out of 11 were removed.

    I have signed up to as many free sites as possible to create profiles.
    Tumblr, Pinterest, Flickr, Slideshare, Scribd etc etc

    I have done this for 2 weeks. Uploaded articles he has written to sites. Uploaded pictures of his to sites. The negative links are not going down and nor are these free profiles rising.

    Please give me some suggestions as to how to tackle this issue using only white hat techniques. I know one thing, these websites will never remove their content, so that is out of the question.

    Thanks for your help, I appreciate any guidance at all!
    You have an SEO client yet you don't know enough about SEO to realise that simply creating a load of free web 2.0 pages without any links directed to them won't get you page 1 and 2 rankings?

    If that is the case, I suggest you spend some real money to hire a real SEO expert to run a real SEO campaign for your client.

    Either way there isn't really any method of doing what you want in a small time frame without spending money.
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    • Profile picture of the author danparks
      Originally Posted by Ben West View Post

      You have an SEO client yet you don't know enough about SEO to realise that simply creating a load of free web 2.0 pages without any links directed to them won't get you page 1 and 2 rankings?
      Right, you need to send backlinks to those web 2.0 properties in order to rank them. You need to treat each as a page for an SEO client. That is, do SEO on each property. You should certainly know that simply creating a free property won't automatically rank it.
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  • Profile picture of the author HuiBang
    2 weeks is not enough for results.This kind of work take months or years depend upon quality of linking and content.Apart from creating new profiles there are number of things you can do like:
    1. You can use different blogging sites like tumblr,blogspot,wordpress to rank.As i want to highlight that wordpress rank fastly in search engine if you will update with fresh and unique content based on that query.
    2. You can create account on images sites,document sharing and video sharing sites.

    These sites will help your client to recover from negative search result.For any help consult ORM experts.
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  • Profile picture of the author opahopa333
    Originally Posted by rbanks1 View Post

    he has some negative articles about him written by some papers and some sites.
    In this case you can write directly to author/editor of article.
    Say that you are "official representative of Mr <>". Raise a claim. Hint them about sue.
    Often it works. They maybe not delete the bad articles, but edit them. So it will be neutral page after that, not negative.
    It's SERP, Not SEO... Another methods =)
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  • Profile picture of the author David Fraudhunter
    Nice work on commenting, dudes) I've done some PR before and that's a question which comes to the minds of many people who get in touch with me.
    They have a few bad articles on them on Google and want to make their reputation clean.

    This is actually called SERP, not SEO, that's right.

    So here's what you should do
    1) just contact the website that posted the comment on your guy. if he's a scammer - and they have proof- it gets trickier. if he's OK and you don't really have any reputational risks - just some gossip - it's best you ask to remove it directly from the author and the source.
    2) if your guy does have reputation issues - that's where it gets tricky. Just creating good profile pages won't get you anywhere. you can run your own website and pay google for the keywords of your guy's name. but that will also not solve the problem completely. if the news agency/website that posted the stuff will not remove the link from their website - you should try finding at least 10 decent websites that will rank higher and will want to post your "good news" article on your guy. but that's a lot of money if you're doing that in the US.
    PR is not free and it's not that easy)
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