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How to purge my name (as a keyword) in Google?

I am looking for a way to purge Google's search results of my name. My name was accidentally published on several undesirable websites (their names aren't important), and recently has been removed or deleted. Of course, even though the actual webpages themselves don't exit anymore (or have been modified), the Google search results for my name remain intact.

For example, if my name was Jackson Slaw, typing it in quotations in Google would pop up several websites that used to feature my name as a keyword. But now, they are obsolete/dead links in Google's cache.

How do I speed up the purging process for dead/missing/404/or modified links?

OR


How do I add my name as a keyword (to Google) on other websites to replace the old, dead links?

Any other workable ideas would be appreciated

Thanks

I think once in the Matrix, always in the Matrix.

I think that you are stuck, sorry

Have you asked the Google people??

I did a 5 minute look at their web page and found https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8459 that mentions Removing my content from the Google index

If it was your site it's fairly easy.

If it's not your site, it's virtually impossible. We've tried many times at the office and the success rate is single digit percentage.

A better bet may be to try to get a bunch of more desireable hits higher up the Google search results.

I have no idea how to do this, but I have heard that it can be done (and that there are even competitions olong those lines...)

Yes, I need to know how to replace the outdated links with brand new ones. But what site should I input my name into to appear in Google search results?

There are oodles of search engines out there and their bots run constantly. I doubt if you would be successful in removing anything without the assistance of the NSA, DHS or Interpol (just kidding).

MisterNice

If you're only concerned about long-term implications, you're probably best off doing nothing. If ALL of the sites in question are no longer active, then the Google indexing will disappear from the search results after the next Google "dance". This might take a little while, but in a few months it will be gone.

If you're concerned about short-term implications, then I agree that your best bet is to try to get legitimate hits (with higher pagerank) on the results page. This might be more trouble than it's worth, though.

Dead pages will be removed. It may take a few days, a few weeks or even a few months depending on how they were removed and how well indexed the site was. But in short order they will be gone and your name with it.

To get positive mentions you need to be in pages (blogs, articles, or plain old websites) that are indexed by google. Having people link to those pages on other sites using your name will help them rank better for your name.

Anyway I had my name on a website and I could have probably sued the individual but it would not have guaranteed that the page would not have moved somewhere else. Your best hope is that it will just disappear one day. It may end up in the Internet way back machine, however.

Escorting? Now

I am interested in legitimate sites with higher pagerank? What are some examples? Of course, they should be free to use.

The only one I am using at the moment is Fotolia.com - uploading stock photography using my name as keywords, as well author but it's very hard to have a photo accepted. MOst are denied.

Suggestions?

If the pages are not longer active or no longer contain references to your name, then after a few days or weeks (i.e., the next time the google bot visits those sites) the pages will be reindexed and since your name doesn't appear in them, they won't appear when you search.

If your name is on a website that you don't control, then there is ZERO chance in getting google to remove it.

However, when someone mentioned that you could create other websites that are better matches to your name, this is something a little complex to do and will take just as much time (and probably longer) than waiting for the indexed pages to get updated by google.

Basically, in the most simplified way that I can think to explain it, you create websites that contain the key words (in this case your name) multiple times and basically make google think that when people are searching for your name, these new websites are the ones that are most important. You could start by registering your firstnamelastname.com and creating a few dozen (the more the better) pages about every aspect of your life. You want to have a better keyword density using your name than the other non-desirable sites but don't overdo it.

If you think backwards, you can think that google wants to provide the searchers with the information they are searching for. They want the links further up in the index to be more relevant to the search words then the links further down in the index. By creating pages that are more relevant than the ones you are trying to "delete" you'll cause google to display these pages lower in their index. Only when google sees enough CREDIBLE content that makes these other pages appear non-credible, will the pages be purged from the system.

This is not an easy thing to do and is not something I would do unless it was extremely important. Look up information on "search engine optimization" or SEO. If you're starting from a blank slate of knowledge on the subject I would imagine it would take you at least 3-6 months before you are able to successfully do what you want.

I don't know exactly what happened to you but if the pages that contained your name no longer do or are (better yet) completely deleted, just wait it out and eventually the info will be dropped from google.

Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions. I wouldn't consider myself an expert in this subject but if I can help, I will.

Take care and good luck!

Only when google sees enough CREDIBLE content that makes these other pages appear non-credible, will the pages be purged from the system.

I have to disagree here. The undesirable pages will be purged once the Google spider crawl finds they are dead links, it doesn't matter whether there is higher ranking material or not.

If there is higher ranking material available, the undesirable links will be pushed down, but not eliminated until the google crawl finds the links are dead.

To push them down, create a blog or other website, get Google to index it (http://www.google.com/webmasters/), then get some friends to link to it and mention your name in their sites or blogs, even if they must create new blogs. They also need to ensire that they are indexed by Google ASAP.

You can get a blog for free at www.wordpress.com. Set one up for free at www.blogger.com as well.

Try putting some quality content if you have it to draw legitimate traffic. Putting Google adsense on it might help, not sure but it can't hurt.

Do NOT try to trick the search engine by repeating your name over and over in the next - Google reportedly blacklists pages for that.

Good luck.

Escorting?

It's not escorting related. I don't know who said that, but it's not true.

It's not escorting related. I don't know who said that, but it's not true.

Hi PP:

I think he got it from your post earlier in the thread:

>>Escorting? Now

I am interested in legitimate sites with higher pagerank? What are some examples? Of course, they should be free to use.

The only one I am using at the moment is Fotolia.com - uploading stock photography using my name as keywords, as well author but it's very hard to have a photo accepted. MOst are denied.<<

A lot of guest books are indexed, so if you go write little entries for places you've gone to visit on trips, museums, other people's personal websites, blogs, etc. its a cheap and fast way to get hits on your name. Many forums that are not password protected are also indexed, so posting questions or answers on a tech help forum might also turn up hits if you used your real name. Writing editorial letters to a local paper that doesn't get a flood of them is another good way to be published; I've found that every time I write a letter to my local independent paper they publish it in both the paper and on their site. A lot of sites also have product reviews, you could write little reviews of products you've used. The key thing is to include your real name obviously, not a handle. Good luck!

It's not escorting related. I don't know who said that, but it's not true.

You did, in post 12 of this very thread.

Hmm.

That was a typo. I meant to say NO, not now.

If you do put your name on your own blog or personal website, not only have friends link to it, but if you can get links from .edu or .gov websites that will generally increase the pagerank or importance.

Also post comments on newspaper sites that are well indexed using your real name as well as other online sites / communities that have high page ranks.

You can get the google toolbar and enable the PageRank feature if you're interested in seeing the Page Rank of different sites. There are a lot of tricks that can be used to increase page rank, but content is king, combined with inbound links from sites with high page ranks.

Speaking of .gov sites, I once saw a site that somehow - likely paid $$$ - and got their link placed on the index page of a .gov website of a ministry from some small country (no content relation between the two sites) - but I found it interesting.

Unfortunately, if your name is referenced in some website other than your own, Google will refuse to remove the indexing to it without a court order. I've tried to get them to do this with a minor matter and failed. Furthermore, I went directly through their general counsel who I knew a little from a previous interaction and HE ignored me.

I have to disagree here. The undesirable pages will be purged once the Google spider crawl finds they are dead links, it doesn't matter whether there is higher ranking material or not.

Google will stop indexing the page if Google, by Google's own secret algorithms, stops thinking that the pages at hand are worthwhile to list.

You are right that the non-credible content will be pushed down before it is purged, but if there is a sheer plethora of credible information, eventually the stuff that Google finds to have no credible relation to the keywords searched with, will in fact be purged from the results.

This isn't an easy task to accomplish but it has been done. For example>>try searching for something using the keyword "ebay" that doesn't have to do with ebay inc. You can bet your *ss that some random mention of the keyword "ebay" is not going to be indexed anymore.

It still is my advice to just wait it out. If the reference has been deleted, eventually google will update their index and stop displaying those pages when you search on your name. Good luck!

If the page is already deleted, you can have Google speed up the deletion process of the index. Just go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals , sign in with a Google account, and select "outdated or deleted link", then just click next and enter the link, then submit it.

I did this a while ago and the page was removed from their index rather quickly. Google does not want to include deleted pages in their index so they have no problem with deleting them quickly.

I suspect that if you provide Google with a compelling reason for wanting the deletions, you might find them more helpful than otherwise.

removal from waybackmachine >
http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#2

does google bombing still work at all?