Ways of removing a rip off report on Google’s first page.

Getting a negative listing on sites like rip off report can happen to the most upstanding companies and individuals. All it takes is 15 minutes and anybody can slander your online reputation for the world to see.

On most of these complaint sites, There is often no way of having the listings removed. Even if you can prove that the allegations are incorrect, those listings will not be taken down by the admin of the site.

Having a negative listing rank on the first page is a very disturbing situation Often you don’t even know who wrote the inflammatory post.Is this a legitimate customer complaint? Was it a person who works for you? What comes natural is to immediately send a rebuttal and respond to these allegations on those forums. Most of the time a response is a really bad idea.  Here is why:

There have been numerous attempts made to force these companies to take down negative listings or face legal action. In most cases this approach will fail since the complaints board sites claim they are not responsible for the content that is being published on their site by 3rd party users.

By replying to the negative listing you are increasing the amount of user generated content and activity on this thread. Search Engines like Yahoo look at this increased activity as an indication that this listing might be important and rank the listing higher on search engines. Search Engines in general considers this posting as a sign that there is an interest in this article. Plus chances are that the other party responds to your comments, which increases the amount of comments and activity even further.

How to remove a rip off report?

Once you have a listing on RipOffReport you cannot get the listing taken down by the administrator. Even if the individual who wrote the article decides to delete the listing. Some of these complaint sites even post your inquiry to the administrator online. 

OK, so if I can’t remove a rip off report, what do I do?
It is possible to remove a Rip Off Report from the top pages on relevant search engines. Our strategy involves the following steps.

First Step: We start by developing various positive URL’s. Those listings come in the form of micro sites, business listings, article syndications and press releases, with the purpose to occupy the top pages on Google and other search engines and displace the negative listings from the top pages on search engines. In many cases this approach by itself requires an additional step in order to remove the ripoff report from the first page on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Your positive listings need to be promoted so they over rank and push down the rip off report.

Second Step: After about six to eight weeks many of the new URL’s are going to start to appear in the top pages on search engines. Depending on the keyword competitiveness some of them have already surpassed the rip off report and therefore pushed the listing downward. But, In order to remove the rip off report from the top page on Google, Yahoo and Bing we promote listings that are below the rip off report. As soon as these URL’s surpass the rip off report we target a new set of positive listings that are not yet above the rip off report until we have a clean first page.