Hide a Negative News article from Google Search Results
What you can do to delete a negative news article or post about you online?
You don’t need to let a bad news story destroy your online credibility. Some people think there is no way to restore a poor internet image after a misleading news item has been picked up by the press and published in an online newspaper report where it can be quickly found via Google, Bing, and other search engines.
However, good news is that this is totally untrue!
Although it is true that certain web outlets will fail to erase negative articles or remove your name from an offensive story, editors of certain news publications may often agree with material removal demands if they are submitted correctly and from the right people. When a newspaper refuses to retract an item, there are also a range of viable solutions open to assist victims of poor publicity in regaining their good image despite seeing harmful, frequently false, news stories written online about them.
HOW TO REMOVE NEGATIVE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES OFF THE INTERNET
Although it can be difficult, but it is possible to get content completely deleted from online newspaper publications. In reality, the first thing you can do to get rid of the bad headlines online is to completely remove the harmful news story. We’ve discussed few strategies for combating negative web site posts on search engines like Google below.
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Reach the Online News Publication’s Owners/Editors
Google and other search engines suggest that you approach the editor of the news websites that wrote the misleading report about you or the business and request that the false storey to be removed.
Although operators of online news publications can be hard to locate and contact, and even though you do effectively contact an administrator of the news pages in question, they are usually hesitant, if not completely unwilling, to accept requests to delete information, this option rarely yields the desired results. Most attempts to find and contact website owners of online news outlets end with a wild goose chase or a discouraging denial to delete the negative article.
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Make a Legal Removal Request to get the negative article removed.
Consultation with a lawyer is another common approach for deleting defamatory news content from Google Search and the web. Seeking legal advice to delete news stories succeeds only if at least one of the following conditions is met:
- The news report includes demonstrably misleading and defamatory claims.
- The news article was copied from a source that owns the rights to the material in the article.
In most cases, neither (1) nor (2) apply to those attempting to censor negative news, leaving the subject of the negative news publication with no legitimate action to take or get the item deleted. This brings us to our third option: hire a third-party online reputation monitoring or content removal service.
- Hire Online Reputation Management Service.
The final aspect is the most powerful for removing negative newspaper articles from the internet. Individuals can use online reputation management (ORM) services to get expert advice. In certain cases of unfavourable news publications, ORM firms will collaborate with the blogs on which you want to delete the negative article and have sources in the news site’s editorial department that can promote de-indexation of the article, resulting in the article being deleted from search results.
If reputation management firms are unable to delete or de-index a post, they may suppress the negative link so that it does not appear on the first few pages of Google Search. Since most users don’t look beyond the second or third page in search results, this is usually the easiest way to mask negative content on the internet (that can’t be deleted or de-indexed).
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