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3 years ago someone wrote something uncomplimentary about a friend of mine, using his name in the Title (and repeatedly in the body) of a blog post (on a free blogspot blog).
The comment isn't libalous its just along the lines of " Jon Doe is a "@** " . The problem is it's the first search that comes up and in a recent interview it was mentioned so its not funny really and I want to help him bump it off the first page at least.
The blog hasn't had new content added to it in 2 years - though the blogger had been quite active when he was maintaining it over two years. There are no external backlinks to the post but there 200 internal backlinks, the page has a 2PR. None of the serps under this negative first result are blog links
My friend has many other listing on social networks (linkedin, facebook etc) but this post always lands first in the SERPS - he doesn't know how long this has been the case as he has never checked his own name online.
Over the past 5 days I have been building backlinks using dofollow links with his name as the anchor text and linking to the positive url's under the negative one. I have used social network profiles, yahoo/google bookmarks, rss, images and comments on high pr dofollow blogs. I have created a blog with his name on wordpress mu, live Journal and Blogspot.
The negative comment has now moved off the first serps page on my country specific google search but is still first on google.com. It has also dropped from the third to the ninth result in yahoo.com
Can anyone make a suggestion about how to get this post off the first page Google.com without flooding the web with articles and press releases which doesn't seem the best solution of an ordinary individual.
It seems to me that the main problem is the age of the blog the negative comment was make on (about 2005/6) and the fact that the author maintained the site regularly with orginal content for about one year.
Any guidance would be appreciate.
Whew
jandal:
you should study Reputation Management techniques and apply them to this situation.
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