Pushing US Govt Web Sites Results to Second Page

[Muhammad25]

We have a client. As soon as we search client name, certain US government web sites and news web sites show up with details associated with client name. Client does not want this to happen.

Is there any way to do it? Can we make web sites, blogs, pages, facebook and linkedin profiles so that first Google page shows our own results and US government web site results and news web sites results are pushed to second page?

[lucy24]

#1 You can certainly achieve it for your personal results, since those are dynamic.

#2 If you are based in a large rich country that g### is afraid of, you might be able to do something about results in www.google.your-country.

#3 If your client's site is vastly better and more interesting than the .gov sites that mention him by name, he will eventually climb on top. (In fact this was what I first thought when I saw the post title. Who goes to a dot gov site if they don't have to?) Unless searchers specify ".gov" in sites.

#4 ... Well, you're looking for #4 aren't you? It's true that everyone has their price. But if you're talking about making all search results everywhere come out the way your client wants them, you're looking at MASSIVE bribes. How much money has he got?

[netmeg]

And how soon does he need it and for how long does he want it to appear that way.

Your client needs to manage his expectations.

[netmeg]

Ok, I guess we weren't clear enough, and I apologize.

It's very unlikely you're going to push those US Govt sites off the first page; you're up against authority sites that have been around for years and years, and even if you do, it's completely unlikely to last very long. You can spend a ton of money, or hire someone to perform some risky behaviors, but at the end of the day, there's no guarantee it will work, and if it does work, no guarantee it will stay working. Google doesn't always detect that kind of manipulation, but they're a lot better at it than they used to be. And if the behaviors are too risky (poor quality content, link schemes) your site could end up even lower than it would otherwise (or kicked out of Google all together)

So what we're saying is, your client is probably going to be disappointed, if this is what he wants.