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Companies are seeking the help of reputation management companies at a high rate. Mainly due to the growing number of consumer complaint websites including RipoffReport.com. These type of consumer complaint websites make it easy for consumers, ex-employees, or competitors to simply sign up and post negative comments about you or your company. These complaints and post rank very high on search engines like Google.com. Google loves user generated comments and feedback on open source sites like RipoffReport.com. Complaints are easy to add but impossible to remove, but not impossible to suppress.

During my 12 years in search engine optimization and reputation management I have not found one client that was successful in removing negative post from top consumer complaint websites. You may find minimal success pressing a smaller size blog to remove a post, but generally it is not going to happen. Another thing not to focus on is if the post is true or false, at this point it does not matter. The focus should be on suppressing the negative post so your customers, employer, investors, wife, kids, or colleagues do not find them.

I know it makes you mad and you have pride in your self and your company, but you have to let it go and take what action you can. That action is reputation management, negative Blog post removal, and Rip off Report removal by a professional.

The impact these negative post have on Google.com alone are damaging. Even if you do not market your company on the Internet people are going to “Google You”. Today’s consumer or even employers simply log on to the computer, goes to Google.com, and types in your name. What comes up is what represents you and is the first impression of your company or you as a person. True or not true negative post on the first 2 pages of Google are going to have a negative impact. It is human nature for our society to believe at least in part what is seen on the Internet. It will affect the online visitors decision, that is a fact.

All hope is not lost. Services like those of ReputationArmor.com can successfully suppress these post so online searches display these negative results deeper in search results. As we said before removing RipoffReport.com complaints and other online complaints completely is not likely. Your only defense against negative post is to suppress the post to the third page of search results or further. Studies show that about 85% of online searches do not go past the first page of results and only about 5% go past the second page. If these negative post are suppressed to the third page or better then you can save your reputation.

Jason Taylor
Senior Case Manager
http://www.reputationarmor.com/jason-taylor.html
1-888-358-2766 Ext 704

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