In a perfect world, we would be able to get rid of all the negative, unfair and outdated search results about ourselves. However, in reality, most content is here to stay except in special circumstances. You can remove what you can, but a great way to control your image and improve your search results is by creating your own positive content to suppress the negative ones. So, how will we able to do that?

Step 1: Create and manage public profiles for yourself

Certain websites consistently appear high in the search results page. You can use those websites in suppressing negative results by simply creating a profile on them with your name and a bit of information about yourself. Make sure that your privacy setting is set to publicly viewed, and only post content that you won’t regret posting later. 

Here are a list of websites you can use:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• MySpace
• Facebook
• Google+
• Formspring.me
• Foursquare
• About.Me
• Pinterest
• Blogger
• Tumblr
• Photobucket
• Quora
• StumbleUpon
• Reddit
• Digg
• Plixi
• Yahoo Pulse
• Flickr

Step 2: Comment publicly in news articles, forums, and social media

You can also use your real name to register on a news website and comment on articles, but these kind of posts doesn’t really rank as highly as those on the websites listed above. If you are prepared for some self-censorship, posting under your real name can be a great strategy for advertising or selling yourself. Knowing that whatever you say online may show up when someone searched for you on Google, use your postings to your advantage: post intelligent, spell-checked, well-reasoned and grammatically-correct content. Express yourself in the field that you want to be established.

Step 3: Link Amongst your Various Sites

Link between your sites to make them all rank higher.

One of the ways that Google determines a site’s ranking in search results is by analyzing how many times other sites link to it. You can get your content to rise by linking it to itself. For example, create a twitter account, connect that to your formspring account, connect both of those to your Facebook page, and link to all of them on your Blogger page. Of course, the more you use your accounts and interact with other people, the more likely they are to link to your content, which drives your results even higher.

One way that Google use to determine the ranking of a website is by analyzing how many times other websites link to it. You can get your content to rise by linking it to itself. For instance, create a Twitter account and then connect that to your formspring account, and then connect them both to your Facebook page, and link to all of them on your Blogger page. Of course, the more you use your accounts and interact with other people, the more likely they are to be link to your content, which will drive your results even higher.

Step 4: Take back negative keywords

If as search for your name is generally positive, but including a specific keyword brings up negative results, try to reclaim that term. Let’s say for instance, a search for “John Doe” brings positive results, but a search for “John Doe” + “State College” brings up negative results. John Doe should start including the phrase “State College” in his positive content creation to associate it with his good reputation.

Is there something online that haunts you or someone you know? IFormatLogic I.T. Solutions is here to help you get rid of all those negative results. Contact us now!