MookiesMatter - 10:52 pm on Oct 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

Okay, I think I will try a few things to see what works best.

1- I am going to add "mydomain.com" plus a random word in adwords to see if it eventually catches on in the suggested results (with Google Suggest that is). I understand some sponsored results could possibly show up such as a search for AOL's sponsored ad when searching for "aol". It would be simple to just run the ads I want to show up pending any restrictions... I did this a few days ago but am still waiting to see if any results change once they update whatever database they use to determine these suggest results.

2- I will also create a subdirectory to see if I can duplicate Microsoft results with another term and get that /subfolder indexed.

3- Finally, I am going to do what Google did. It appears their results will have co.uk, com.au, com.vn, etc... that show up with searching on their own domain.

Hopefully one of these methods will work.

What I am trying to avoid is optimizing tons of "mydomain.com sucks" pages to be brought up with the google results. I would hate to find out later that my optimization of "sucks" is actually a reason it is showing up in the "Google Suggest" results.

If anyone has an idea or is in the same situation, please let me know and I will try other methods that may be helpful. As previously mentioned, only 2 of the 10 "Google Suggestion" results bring up any information. This means I am not really competing against a huge number of searches across the world to influence the 8 extra slots. I may be in a situation where this is actually fixable. I will post what I find works the best when I get something showing up.

Robert, I know you are correct when you state "But, bottom line... you've got to do a lot of online "promotion" to get your brandname associated on other websites with terms other than the word "sucks". Do you think the three methods I laid out are viable options (and possibly less time consuming) than doing a full brand name association campaign? I most definitely will be doing the brand name campaign but would like to find a quicker alternative (for right now) to void the Google Suggest results immediately until I can pursue the more time demanding alternatives.