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How to NOT Show up on Google due to Forum Trolls.....

by BigWealthTeam
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We have a product we promote via email marketing and there are competitors and forum trolls constantly attacking it online to hurt our reputation, and then the thread shows up on Google high.

So instead of calling our product something like: DiamondEliteTradingBrokerage.com

We instead picked very generic domain names like: TheTradingBrokerage.com

Still however, much less, competitors and forum trolls are quick to attack!

Does anyone have an idea for a way to use a Domain name/term that is ULTRA GENERIC and when people subject their "scam report" BS that, Google wont index it?

Thanks guys! I appreciate your replies and we are currently in the process of suing one of the harassers and hope to take him down soon.

Neil
#due #forum #google #show #trolls
  • Profile picture of the author GyuMan82
    Does your product suck or are you or your affiliates email spamming?

    No "generic" domain name will stop others from listing it as a "scam report" site.

    When people find the URL and report it, it will show up in Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author beasty513
    Ah yes.


    So some competitors of yours is doing

    some SEO dirt.


    Best you can do is outrank them for

    the whole first page.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      A legit business would not worry about it, unless it was true.

      Google does not show such crap when people search for a legit
      businesses.

      If your shtuff is a scam, that's another story.

      If anyone can show me a legit business that gets organics
      results as nothing but scam complaints, then I'll show you
      a nonlegit business that is actually full of scams.

      I have never encountered one, not not one scam/span/scheme/con
      complaint site when ever searching for a business online. Not one.

      Now if I did search for, oh let's see, walmart scam hate sites, of course
      I'd get that.

      But do you think walmart is worried? Of course not. Why would they?
      Google would never show that unless someone was searching for it.

      I've asked this question before: Where do you people live?

      I mean, to actually come up with a concept like spam-complaint-
      proof-domain? Man...I guess I live in another world.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author BigWealthTeam
    Wal Mart is an established business and people don't search the internet for their reviews. Complete Apples and Oranges.

    When you are constantly launching new website products in the same industry/area and your competitors go after you repeatedly to hype their site on their blog or a forum, you DO have a problem. It doesn't matter if you are a charity, dog walker, gun dealer, or affiliate marketer.

    Period.

    Plenty of people out there piggy back on long-tail marketing from their better funded competition.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    GyuMan82 asks a very good question. I'd also like to know why and how they attack. What's the exact "argument" of these "trolls"? Is there some truth to it? For example a local health device manufacturer gets heckled in the internet because of their shoddy research, and there's not much they can immediately do about it. Press releases and blog posts just irk the detractors more.

    I also don't think Walmart is a good comparison in this case. Of course behemoths like them are able to push everyone else from search results, but new companies will be in trouble. This stuff does happen, and it's quite hard to combat it.

    I agree that most of the cases of "Google poisoning" were done by companies themselves and I know several stories from this front. Classic example would be overreaction to criticism - usually an individual review doesn't get noticed or linked until company owner starts shouting threats of litigation.
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  • Profile picture of the author BigWealthTeam
    Great points...

    The issue is the industry.
    When you are in the trading, gambling, etc industry- you are SURROUNDED by scams and everyone is slimey. The competition, customers, affiliates.

    You have to stay a step ahead of the competition and they are constantly using our long-tail website names as ways to boost their own traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Anton
    Have to just be proactive and create a bunch of other forum threads, blog posts, press releases, etc to create "noise" in order to push your brand above the nonsense false negative/reports. It's ridiculous that people can say whatever they want online and others take it as gospel even if they are a small minority everyone loves to read the negative reviews/reports to avoid buyers remorse.
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  • Profile picture of the author linkassistant
    A generic domain name is not the best option when you're trying to build a brand.
    Google and everyone else has been discouraging people from that. You have to have a means to stand out. And build a brand.
    If you have a fly-by-night site or a few, be prepared that they can be taken down easily.
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