Bad reviews coming next to the company website, how to remove those ??
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My website name www.commonsite.com (duplicate name), if i search in google with keyword common site, next to that i'm getting mouthshut bad reviews. I tried various methods till now i didnt get any improvement. Finally my doubt is my site has 6 sitelinks in the search engine. What will happen if i delete that ?? Can i get those pages results next to my main website home page results. Please clarify my doubt about sitelinks.
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That's a great point about social media. Often, social media sites will have a much greater authority than the review sites. If you build up a strong online presence on even the basics:
- YouTube
- Google+
- Vimeo
Then you will be pushing the bad reviews further and further down the results. Even better than that, you will be showcasing the solid community that you have built up. People will go on these social sites and learn more about you and if you are communicating well then they will surely like you. It will give you a great competitive advantage.
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To elaborate on this, the most basic "reputation management" technique is to make sure you have an active, popular presence on every social network. If someone searches your business name, your social media sites are likely to rank well, possibly pushing down bad reviews.
I don't think it's a killer to have bad reviews out there, though. Consumers understand that reviews are subjective and people have different experiences. I'm an enthusiastic Yelp user, and honestly, I get suspicious when a restaurant or business has no bad reviews.
Now, if a company has a nasty write-up on Rip-Off Report or the like, that's a bigger problem. There's a good write-up on ways to handle that here: http://searchengineland.com/how-to-remove-ripoff-reports-from-google-not-just-bury-them-65173 Ultimately, the best strategy is to simply be a better business.
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If you delete your site links there will be less links for people to click to your site and they may click the bad reviews more. So don't delete your sitelinks.
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Bad reviews are a common issue with SEO as the sites that host these reviews often have high authority. The only way you can really remove these from the results page is to create better, valuable content that will eventually outrank the reviews and push them further down the results page.
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