Negative Links, not a good prospect for company reputation

Posted by Lara Fraser on May 11th, 2021

A good reputation is an asset and is built over many years through sincere dedication to a business, its customers, and employees. But a positive reputation that you have made over the years can be ruined almost overnight.

Negative links that appear when you or your company name is typed in search engines must be addressed and deactivated as soon as possible. In today’s world, as harmful content, fake reviews & negative links are growing day by day, so it is essential for everyone that their name, or the name of their company, is featured in a positive light. 

We live in times where access and sharing of information can happen in just a few seconds. You can perform your job faultlessly and serve hundreds of happy people, but one dissatisfied client can lead to nasty comments and a trashed presence on the internet. 

How to Manage Fake Reviews on Internet?

Some proven techniques and strategies can help us. The goal is to make the harmful content and comments from the search results vanish or become more challenging to see. There are top reputation management companies, like Blue Ocean Global Technology, known as Reverse SEO, which helps us to simultaneously suppress the defamatory information as much as possible on search engines. 

It’s too easy to Google someone and their business and encounters links that say negative things about you may automatically write you off as a realistic option. Do not let the criticism stay in the search engine’s result for your company because it can:

· Negatively influence how others perceive your business

· Drag experts or partners away from your company or brand

· Abolish your online reputation 

· Disrepute the overall quality of your products and SEO Services

· Disrepute you as an individual from both a personal and professional standpoint.

Removing Negative Content from the Internet:

The best idea is to remove the complete negative search result. If the search results are related to pages that are in your possession or under your control, then it is not a problem. But what if the content that is on website pages that are not under your control? There are three options to remove a negative comment on you or your company on a blog, or a social network site that is not your property is most challenging to remove.  

1. The first option is to directly contact the owner or webmaster to ask him why certain content about you is inappropriate. 

2. The second option is to contact the search engine administrator that gave you the controversial search result. Some of the published data may conflict with the terms of use of the search engine itself. For example, Google prohibits publishing some personal and financial information about individuals or businesses. If Google feels that the content is inappropriate, it will not be deleted from the source website because Google is not their owner, but that content will no longer appear in the search results.

3. The third option is to consult a firm with legal expertise to explore your options for digital expungement and find elements in the published content to sue or analyze legal recourse and evaluate what may be cost-effective; communicating lawyers directly may be costly.

Your goal should be to remove yourself from the first page because it is that when someone enters your name into the search engine, in most cases, they only check the first or second page of the results. If you manage to push down the negative impact to the third, fourth, fifth, or so on, it’s almost as if you have entirely removed yourself from the internet.