NEWS “without comment”
Reposted by consent of PI Steve Krivit – USA
Slander – “Reputation Management”
Seems like a week doesn’t go by without a PI looking for help in this realm.
Even though I’m a bit-head, I’ve always had the sense that these situations were close to futile. Now I know why thanks to this excellent NY Times article.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/24/technology/online-slander-websites.html
If you get to the bottom of the article, there are two tips for real solutions.
- Ask Google to not index such results on the person’s name.
- Populate the net with positive search results.
More on this: There is a joke among SEO experts. “Where do you hide a dead body? On page 2 of a Google search page.” In other words, if you can create positive SEO, and have those search results dominate at least the first page of Google search results, 99% of people will not bother going to page 2.
Posted by: Ian (D. Withers)
Thanks to PI Steve Krivit
Director of Investigations
Marin Private Investigations
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