[Advice] Need to remove/edit a message board post from Google

try posting his negative review on ripoff report.

 

Try getting in contact with the ip host and threatening them with legal action if they don't remove the post. The ip host usually don't want any legal troubles and they will either force the guy to remove the post or they will take down his site.

 

What was the negative review about?

 

The trick is DON'T bluff. If this is a huge burden on your business (which it sounds like it is) get a lawyer involved. And start sending certified letters.

Another trick would be that you file a small claims suit against the operator of the website, and send him a certified letter. I mean you need to make sure you let all parties involved know that you mean business.

 

What's the site? PM me and I'll see if I can help. I have to deal with a ton of that type of stuff. The correct approach is to build and optimize satellite websites and 3rd party profiles that outrank the forum post (like mycompanynamereviews.com, mycompanynamecomplaints.com, facebook.com/mycompany, linkedin.com/mycompany, glassdoor.com/mycompany, plus.google.com/mycompany. It's not easy but it's also not hard, assuming the post isn't that authoritative.

If the forum sits on a lower ranking domain you can also try negative SEO that you can purchase off fiverr.com, blackhatworld.com or warriorforum.com - hoping Google ultimately penalizes or devalues the link. It's actually a risky move but might be worth pursuing after careful consideration.

 

My brother had this issue. He seriously contemplated just changing the name of his business.

 

what's your business name? Give me $600 or else I will write another negative review for your company

 

Dang. Internet business is serious.

Does one bad review really affect that much? I mean, I realize that might bring your average down but can't the others bring the average up? Are all the other reviews good ones?

 

for real

it's the 2nd result swoly.

 

Maybe If you didn't engage in illegal activities like smuggling pandas and orcas, hosting Russian roulette games, operating an unlicensed casino, stealing your friends drink, , and serving liquor without a license, the comment would've been removed

 

I know a guy! He guarantee's his work, but he only accepts cash! He literally makes problems disappear...
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Really, pay some people to write good reviews, $600 will get you a lot of good reviews!

 

I'd still like to know.

 

I'm gonna say... go ahead and try some blackhat negative SEO but throw it at multiple deep-seeded links on the forum, not just the one affecting your brand.

Continue to build those satellite profiles and think about finding a cheap way to create 1st party satellite websites to push that review down. 1st party sites like mycompanyreview, careersmycompany, mycompanycomplaints WILL outrank that review in about 3-6 weeks and they can gone be done dirt cheap. If those sites all link to your FB account and other social media accounts those sites might rise and push that forum post to page 2 in 3-12 weeks.

That's really all you can do if the mods and site owner wont budge. There is no quick fix like you want if they wont listen (not even legal)... if you do manage to get someone on that end to listen, maybe you could write them explaining the situation (again) and offer to give them a free product they can offer to their users in a contest? Or maybe offer to include an ad to their site on your site for a year? Or offer to promote their site on your social media?

 

Kick me an email and I may be able to help.

Online reviews are very serious; word-of-mouth advertising is king and personally typed reviews are considered the same thing.

I had issues with a product on Amazon. The company did not honor their warranty so I wrote about it in a review. I know it's cost them business as they've contacted me a few times to try to get me to redact or edit the review. They've offered me bribes to do so. I stuck by my guns, though. If they had honored their warranty in the first place I wouldn't have been compelled to write that review.

 

Better call Saul.