can I outrank ripoffreport.com for a brand name?

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I am meeting a big client tomorrow as I rank top 5 for "reputation management MYCITY" and they found me through Google. They want me to "flush" the top 2 rankings for their name which is ripoffreport.com and homestars.com. They've got some pretty bad reviews, horrible actually. My plan is to make several theme pages/videos/etc. with their brand name in it on social networks, blogs, .info domains, etc.

My question is, if I use enough brute force is it even possible to push down these rankings to the 3rd or 4th page on Google? I only ask because ripoffreport is a pr7 website and the reviews in question are 3 years old :(

I really need the money that's why I am considering this client.

Thanks
 


Anything is possible. It depends on tactics and money.

What is the PR of their main site? You need to work on all aspects of their online marketing including offsite Web 2.0 stuff, their main site, and trying to get some bad stuff removed or diffused. I would really only worry about getting stuff off the first page. The difference between #10 and #11 is HUGE.
 
kh1 -
I used to work with a RM company that specialized in this kind of stuff.
RipOffReport is a toughie.
It's doable, but it ain't easy. Charge them a lot but make it worth it.

Good Luck
 
I'm in the same business :rasta: and yes it's possible. Obviously the key is to make sure the company name is in the title for any pages you try and outrank. For my client I managed to get the ripoffreport pushed down to page 5 from #6 on page 1 within 2 months. I'll send you a pm with more detailed places where you can setup pages.
 
oziman said:
kh1 -
I used to work with a RM company that specialized in this kind of stuff.
RipOffReport is a toughie.
It's doable, but it ain't easy. Charge them a lot but make it worth it.

Good Luck
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How much does a company usually charge for this?


They are in a business of re-upholstering furniture and charge like 3-4k a pop so it's no small mom and pop company.
 
Get the company on blogs, popular forums, and the likes. For web niches, I posted something the other day at a few forums, and within 5 minutes of posting (literally), one post was already indexed by Google, and #2 for its term (now #1). Sure, it's an ad/review post at a forum, but that can help move stuff down the page.
 
Parasite seo that shit. Just be real careful about managing expectations and outlining deliverables in your proposal. One algorithm shuffle or manual edit from Google could screw you and the client.
 
johu said:
Get the company on blogs, popular forums, and the likes. For web niches, I posted something the other day at a few forums, and within 5 minutes of posting (literally), one post was already indexed by Google, and #2 for its term (now #1). Sure, it's an ad/review post at a forum, but that can help move stuff down the page.
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Except that if people are really unhappy and have been done wrong, awhich sounds like the case by the op's original post, those people are pretty highly motivated and will join that new forum etc and start bashing the company there also which will only ad one more page to the serp's and completely defeat the point. If there are a ton of bad reviews then I would be careful doing this with social sites as you might do more harm than good.
 
I have heard of instances where Rip-Off Report will take down pages for a fee - a very large fee. That might be one solution depending on the size of pockets.

Just curious how/why you rank for reputation management in your city but have no real clue how to do it... I would ask myself if screwing this client hurts my reputation more than the money may solve a short term problem.

It is painfully obvious based off your questions that you are not an expert in that subject matter - why hold yourself out as one? You have the meeting already scheduled, so find an angle to offer a service you are really good at and in return begin working on their problem and possibly find a 3rd party who is an expert. Solve their big problem and lots of small ones they never knew they had and you have a happy client - screw around and leave them with a bigger problem than they started with and you will never work with them again.

Fake it till you make it can work, but it can also backfire spectacularly.
 
Diorex said:
I have heard of instances where Rip-Off Report will take down pages for a fee - a very large fee. That might be one solution depending on the size of pockets.

Just curious how/why you rank for reputation management in your city but have no real clue how to do it... I would ask myself if screwing this client hurts my reputation more than the money may solve a short term problem.

It is painfully obvious based off your questions that you are not an expert in that subject matter - why hold yourself out as one? You have the meeting already scheduled, so find an angle to offer a service you are really good at and in return begin working on their problem and possibly find a 3rd party who is an expert. Solve their big problem and lots of small ones they never knew they had and you have a happy client - screw around and leave them with a bigger problem than they started with and you will never work with them again.

Fake it till you make it can work, but it can also backfire spectacularly.
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I do know how to do it but I never went against a PR7 site with a 3 year old page before. I use parasite SEO
 
kh1 said:
I am meeting a big client tomorrow as I rank top 5 for "reputation management MYCITY" and they found me through Google. They want me to "flush" the top 2 rankings for their name which is ripoffreport.com and homestars.com. They've got some pretty bad reviews, horrible actually. My plan is to make several theme pages/videos/etc. with their brand name in it on social networks, blogs, .info domains, etc.

My question is, if I use enough brute force is it even possible to push down these rankings to the 3rd or 4th page on Google? I only ask because ripoffreport is a pr7 website and the reviews in question are 3 years old :(

I really need the money that's why I am considering this client.

Thanks
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I've heard indexing subdomains is an easy way to do this, I've never tried it though. Put up a test domain and try it if you want.

Example: yoursite.com
blog.yoursite.com
forum.yoursite.com
etc.

Again, I can't testify that it works, but I saw someone mention it awhile ago when they had the same problem
 
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