Are You Being Smeared In The Search Engines?
You never quite understand why people are willing to spend so much of their time chasing after you in the search engines to drive away your business.
Have you ever looked yourself up in the search engines? Have you seen search results that you are afraid could hurt your reputation and your business?
I have.
There are two fellows out there in America Land who share my name, Bill Platt.
- One is a car nut, who people swear is an @##&*!$. He is not me, but people swear that he is not a nice guy.
- Another is an upstanding member of the Republican Party, who said something really nasty about Obama during the 2008 campaign. I don’t know what he said, and I don’t care really.
The point is that there are two guys out there, who will turn up in the search engines if you search for my name. If I thought that there would be a problem with them being mixed up with me, then I would probably take action to get them out of the search results. But, I am fairly well established, and I don’t think anyone will confuse me with them.
In your case, things might be a bit different.
In your case, you might be turning up on the same page as someone being outed for being a crook. You might share a name with one of America’s Most Wanted. Here is an example:
I got on the idea for this type of service when a fellow contacted me to ask if I could help him combat his search engine troubles. He lives in Arizona, and he is getting mixed up with a guy in New York, who got in trouble with the Feds over a money scam.
It is bad enough in his case that his identity is being mixed up with a felon, but then one of his previous customers (a student at his school) got mad, because she got a diploma from his school and now she cannot find a job. As if that is the teachers fault, right?
So the student is thrashing out at the school, which gave her an education, because she cannot find a job.
Now the student is chasing the school around online, trying to connect the dean of the school to the felon in New York.
It does not matter that the connection is not true. It does not matter that the dean is seeking legal recourse in the matter.
What matters is that anytime someone finds the school, then wants to find out more about it, they generally drop the name of the school into Google, and viola, they are told that the school is operated by a felon who stole money from folks.
It is not the same guy, but it does not matter. It does not matter, because people can SEE THE LIE, and they have no reason not to BELIEVE THE LIE.
At the time I was approached about doing this, I was not in a position to help. So the fellow who called me had to find someone else to help him. (I received that call 2 years, before I started doing SEO.) This happened a long time ago, but the story tends to repeat itself online – all the time.
If people are typing your name or the name of your business into the search engines and seeing search listings that undermine your credibility, then you are losing sales.
This is how we can help you.
We can use our expertise in SEO to make the pages – that are undermining your ability to do business – disappear from the search results.
We do not employ any Blackhat SEO methods, to accomplish this end.
Instead, we seek out the positive mentions of your name or company, and then we use the SEO processes that work for us to push the positive reviews UP IN THE SEARCH ENGINES.
Because the positive reviews of you or your business are on the climb, it is just a matter of time, before the bad reviews start disappearing into lower pages in the search results.
If people cannot see any Negative Posts about you or your company, then those negatives will never enter the mind of your prospects. Out-Of-Sight … Out-Of-Mind.
If we cannot find any positive reviews of you or your company online, then we will create the positive reviews of you or your company, then we will push those new pages up in the search results to replace the negative press.
The process is all about Managing Your Reputation in the search engines.
When we are successful at improving the good press and pushing the bad press Out-Of-Sight, then you will be able to close more sales. It is as simple as that.
Let us help you Clean Your Online Reputation.
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