Ripoff Reports – Is Removal Possible?
March 30th, 2012 |Summary: No.
Ripoff reports can be incredibly damaging for your company. Not only do they make it ‘appear’ that you have one very dissatisfied client, but that information can influence hundreds or even thousands of other potential clients, creating financial havoc with your firm. Is ripoff report removal possible? Here’s what you need to know.
First, removing information from the Internet is not possible. No matter what steps you take (or what promises a company might make to you), that information is there for good. However, you can take steps to remove complaints by forcing them down in SERPs. How does that work?
Simply put, you can suppress negative information through an active reputation management program. While ripoff report removal is impossible, that doesn’t mean that this negative information has to be highly visible. With the right reputation management techniques and search engine optimization to promote positive information, ripoff reports can be pushed to a very low-ranking page in organic search engine results.
The benefit here is that most Internet searchers never move beyond the first few SERPs, and by pushing negative results down, you make them all but invisible to web searchers. How do you start pushing ripoff reports down? The best option is to enact a reputation management plan that encompasses both on-page and off-page optimization, the creation of new positive and neutral information and the identification and promotion of existing positive information concerning your company. While ripoff report removal is impossible, you can take steps to minimize damage from those negative results.
