I am trying to optimize the Google placement of several articles to offset a terrible posting that has been...?

[Wonderer]

I am trying to optimize the Google placement of several articles to offset a terrible posting that has been written about our non-profit. Given my very basic understanding of SEO, it would seem that posting links to the "good" pages about within the comments sections of big sites (NY Times; CNN) or even on sites like this one would raise the visibility of the good pages. Is that correct, or too simplistic?

[Rick O]

I believe you're correct in your assumption. I would also become quite active on Twitter and broadcast your counter postings there to offset what's been said contrary to the truth. Social networking travels like wildfire over the internet. Get on Twitter and grab a big following and keep broadcasting the truth.

[Jordan]

Posting links on websites like NY Times, CNN & Wikipedia will not help your SEO. A couple years ago this would of worked, but as you can probably imagine, online marketers exploited this technique and it made search engines create a <no-follow> tag that larger sites will automatically apply to all outbound links (unless the link is in the actual article). Basically, link spamming websites will not help with passing "link-power" to your website.

What should you do?

Create great content on your website, maybe start a blog that will host great content that attracts natural links from websites organically. It is getting harder to beat the system with forced links. Be active on social networking websites and gain traffic and hope that they link to you from their websites.

OR

Contact the author of the negative article and try and resolve the issue with him directly. Sometimes you can resolve the issue and get him/her to remove the page...


Jordan
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[AamirGajni]

one bad article that too on authority sites such as ny times etc will result in years of goodwill go down the drain very quick.

you should contact the author and explain ( never threaten) him.

sometimes they will hear your side of the story. and remove the negative report

[idunil_106]

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