Question for the SEO people
 

A close friend asked me a question this morning:

He has a federal indictment that appears as results 1 and 2 (DOJ pages) when you type his name on google or yahoo...he's worried about someone at his new job finding out. What suggestions can you guys offer to push those DOJ pages off of the first page or two of results? Thanks in advance.

(no, it's not me...never been in that kind of trouble)

Not much you'll be able to do... I'm assuming the pages got they're link credibility and ranking because of inbounds links from news sources, blogs, etc... Hard to stop.

LOL

that's a great example of how your past can haunt you :winkwink:


1.) contact the site and have them remove the page (very unlikely hah)

2.) SEO a bunch of sites / pages to push their result to the 2nd or 3rd page :winkwink:

Put out a bunch of press releases that will get distributed on sites with high PR. It should help dilute the "bad" pages.

Another thing to do is register the name a bunch of boards, the profiles get spidered and often come up for the persons name.

Is it a very unique and uncommon name?

When I search for my name I get several million results for some hack recording artist.

yes, very unique...he's indian (not the feathers kind), but even in india it's not a common name.

btw, thank you everyone for the replies. and they say nobody cares on GFY!

DOJ is a .gov site and therefore always in the top spots for relevant keywords like it should be out of SE's perspective.

With enough good inbound links that have a good anchor text you could push a few sites on top within a time range of several months, but I doubt it'd be worth it in any way.

use a doorway generator and make 500 pages... link 100 to 100 , that would be 5 limbs... link to a page on each of the limbs from a popular page and those doj pages will go bye bye shortly... ESPECIALLY is his name is unique.

google bowl him.