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Un-usual Situation, help please.

by Paul Tovey
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In 2010, I had an interview with the Daily Mail and the Sun and when you type in my name, it shows these two interviews that I would very much like to forget/ remove from Google.

Is there a way to remove these website from the Google SERPs or replace them with other websites?

1) My name is Japanese and will be a very low competition keyword.
2) These interviews were recorded by the BBC in 2010, would they be too old now?

Just to clarify, I did not do anything wrong, it was a case of me voicing my opinions on a certain matter, which did not make good news for them, so they decided to play on my words. The guardian wrote a very nice review.

Obviously this is not my real name. I'd rather not say to be honest.

I'm just looking for a way to remove these results and replace them with my new life.
#situation #unusual
  • Profile picture of the author Paul Tovey
    Additionally:
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      I doubt considering the sites in question you are going to be able to remove them from the serps but you could bump them down to page two or three by SEoing other sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Unless there is something untrue in the article that would allow you to ask the publisher to remove or correct it, the only solution is to rank other webpages ahead of it and push it down.

    It's commonly known as reputation management.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Tovey
    I've spoken with a few SEO's who are un-willing to even look at the project given that the Daily Mail is in the lead.

    The page itself is un-optimised for my name and only has a few mentions with a video from the BBC embedded on it. I suspect the only reason it is there is due to it being the Daily Mail.

    I've been creating profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Technorati and other places with the URL being my name. Although at best they are rank 4 - 10.

    Any advice for Profile pages that usually rank high or anything I can do myself?
    I've just created a YouTube and Vimeo page too, they seem to be increasing quite rapidly too.
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    • Profile picture of the author seekdefo
      Originally Posted by Paul Tovey View Post

      I've spoken with a few SEO's who are un-willing to even look at the project given that the Daily Mail is in the lead.

      The page itself is un-optimised for my name and only has a few mentions with a video from the BBC embedded on it. I suspect the only reason it is there is due to it being the Daily Mail.
      Create a site with your name and that pretty much would do the trick

      I've been creating profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Technorati and other places with the URL being my name. Although at best they are rank 4 - 10.

      Any advice for Profile pages that usually rank high or anything I can do myself?
      I've just created a YouTube and Vimeo page too, they seem to be increasing quite rapidly too.
      Create a webiste with your own name and write what you want to be seen and that should probably do the trick
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Sometimes a few press releases will do the job. I'm not talking about blasting press releases on those free crappy PR sites that IM'ers use through SEnuke or some other crap like that.

    I mean a few good well-written press releases sent through PRWeb or some other such service. Probably going to cost you about $250-350 per press release.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    There's probably a thousand other people in this world with the same name, does the article pin point your location (small town, employer, business name, etc...)?

    No offense but is anyone actually searching for your name?
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