How to Remove fake and negative posts from search engines online

 

Whether you want to remove harmful content from search results or you want to block your name from appearing on Google altogether and purge pornography, there are plenty of ways to reverse Google's negative image on the Internet. We've outlined each of them below.

Harmful content can often be more damaging to a business or individual than the author realizes. Journalists unknowingly (or intentionally) damage people and brands with harmful content every day. Years after a blog post, article, or video has been published; it can have a very damaging effect. So how do you remove harmful content from Google search, Yelp, YouTube, or elsewhere?

Sometimes, harmful content can be taken down, blocked with a unique code, or banned, but it needs to be suppressed or suppressed most of the time.

After Googling your brand or name, you might throw up your hands and think about removing yourself from Google searches altogether, but this is rarely possible because most information comes from public sources. It's hard to get people (and governments) to stop posting about you again.

We've compiled a list of proven techniques to help keep your harmful content in place: a few pages deep in Google search results.

Deciding on the proper online reputation management (ORM) strategy can be tricky. Too often, reputation concerns are put on the back burner until you're already in the middle of a scandal. In addition, at that point it is too late to take proactive steps to protect your reputation because you're in the middle of an emergency. But it's essential that once you identify the cause of the problem and develop (and follow!) an action plan to help mitigate the impact, to stay calm.

The first step is to identify properly and then address the problem that caused the negative feedback. This is important. Take the time to analyze what happened and remember how you can make changes to prevent the same situation from happening again in the future. Deal with the problem immediately to avoid further complications that follow. Once this is properly done, more work also needs to be done effectively.

Google only removes things from its search results (sometimes), not from the website. When dealing with negative search results, the best product is to remove the content at the source. This is also probably the most complex strategy to achieve. There are three ways to remove negative search results from a source altogether.

To altogether remove negative search results from a source, you can.

Remove content from your website.

Please make it so that when someone searches for that content on your site, they won't find it.

Modify the information so that your site is a more attractive link for search engine users.

1. Have the site owner remove the page completely

While this may seem unlikely (spoiler alert: it almost always is), it's still worth trying to ask the page owner to remove it. It's low risk and high reward. If the owner removes it, you can stop reading this article. If they don't, read on for other strategies to remove or suppress negative search results.

2. Ask the site owner to add a NOINDEX character to the HTML page you want Google to ignore.

The NOINDEX tag looks like this.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">.

This tells the search engines to ignore the page. Also, this effectively removes the page because it removes the page from the search engine without taking the page away. After a few weeks, the page is usually automatically removed from search results.

3. Change the page's content so that it is no longer relevant to the targeted search query.

Ask the webmaster of that particular site containing the information to remove the search phrases from the page. For example, suppose your company name is mentioned on the page and in the page description (in HTML) and in the page title (also in HTML). In that case, the webmaster can replace these words with something vaguer, such as "local manufacturer," so that your company name no longer appears on the page. 

All of these methods depend on the website owner. So the only way to remove negative search results at their source is to persuade the page owner to remove them.

4. Can I ask a hacker to remove negative content?

There is a fourth option, but it is not recommended. Hire a hacker to hack the site and remove the negative range (sorry, X reputation doesn't hack, so don't ask). Beware, almost all dark web services that promise to hack your account to remove content are fake. If you do it, it could be considered hacking, but the probability of it working is very low. Most of the time, you will lose your money. In some cases, you get caught and bad things happen to you.

A word of caution about hacking

A brand once hired a hacker to remove objectionable content from someone else's website. As usual, the hacker was unsuccessful, but the site owners saw which page had been targeted for hacking. What did the publisher do? They wrote another, a longer story about the brand, which was even worse. 

Get a lawyer to remove the content.

Most content can be removed or deleted without using an attorney. The best time to hire a defamation lawyer is when other options have been exhausted. Not only are lawyers expensive, but their charming cease and desist letters are sometimes published on the Internet and make the situation even worse. 

Can search results be deleted or redacted?

Yes. In most cases, changing search results is no joke. It's just a lot of work.

How deletion works

Because complete deletion is relatively rare, it's necessary to understand how negative web content can be removed (deleted, rejected). However, the term "removal" may be inaccurate, as most of the time it is promotion.

Examples of removal solutions

Let's say a negative search result is found and cannot be removed from the source or search engine (Bing, Google, Facebook, etc.). In addition, the next step is to identify properly positive search results that exist underneath the negatives.

We call them PUNs or "positives under the negatives". These are the search results that search engines consider relevant and therefore worthy of being placed at the top of the search results. But they often appear just below the negatives.

We assume that search engines consider the content to be good but not good enough. So we help search engines understand that PBNs are more relevant than the negative ones, which pushes the positive ones up. By putting enough effort into improving your PBN ranking, you can effectively "bury" negative reviews in your search results.

How to Bury Negative Search Results

Getting your red shoes to meet at the heel is a good start, but it takes more effort (sorry).

Instead of relying on wishful thinking and luck, take a more systematic approach to remove harmful content. At Reputation X, we identify, analyze and promote the right content, effectively eliminating existing negative content.

Identify existing content. This means we look at your social media, articles, blogs, and Wikipedia pages. The technical aspects of each piece of existing content are reviewed, and content type and SEO factors. We really try to understand "user intent" so we can solve your problems more effectively by understanding what people are looking for. This helps us understand why people and engines think certain content should score high.

Create high-quality content: We strive to improve the user experience. By doing so, we not only help our customers, but we make the web more beneficial for everyone. We identify content gaps by reviewing the online profiles of competitors and similar entities. For example, unreported charity work can be leveraged and images, news articles, press releases, websites, etc. can be designed, developed and fleshed out. This gives search engines more consideration in determining which results will receive enough credit to be placed on the first page of search results.

Summing up

No one wants to see negative posts about their business or themselves, especially on the first page of search engine results. A good online reputation management agency can help you in tackling negative reviews online. 

If you find a large number of top-ranking negative posts flooding your search results, there are steps you can take to remove them or, in rare cases, eliminate them. Implementing strategies such as de-indexing, optimizing existing content, and promoting positive content can help bury negative search engine results.