SEO: Any way to 'bury' a page?

[PokerPie]

There is a page that shows up on the first page for my name that I don't like. There are a few links to this page but nobody is targeting it or anything. I've had success pushing it down the rankings by linking to my Facebook page, my blog etc. Though this page is still on page one and I'd like it on page 5 or something.

Any way to negatively impact the ranking of a particular page? Some kind of reverse-SEO?

I have no control over the page in question and cannot get any control over it, so rule that out.

Thanks for any tips. If you do work in this area, I might be willing to hire you for your help.

[CureCancer]

The only way is to have the owner of the site remove it, unless its a complaint or bad review... it will be very hard to have it removed.

[PokerPie]

There is no way to have it removed.

[whitebark]

Create some more positive pages with your name on it - SEO the heck out of them and drive the other page down the rankings.

[CureCancer]

Create some more positive pages with your name on it - SEO the heck out of them and drive the other page down the rankings.

the problem is, once someone clicks on that link with the bad review. It will climb back to the top! No matter how much seo and time you put into this, the page is indexed and will work its way up! All it takes is one click!

PM me the link and I tell you if their is anything that can be done.

[PokerPie]

Create some more positive pages with your name on it - SEO the heck out of them and drive the other page down the rankings.

I addressed this also in my post, I am already doing this and am well aware of this as a strategy.

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PM me the link and I tell you if their is anything that can be done.

I don't see how that matters. Either you can bury a page with clever SEO or you can't. It is not a page which can be edited, altered, modified or anything else. Pretend it is on whitehouse.gov.

I know you can make pages rank that don't contain the keywords, i.e. George W Bush's Bio ranking 1st for 'miserable failure'. I am hoping there is some way to make a page get buried or possibly de-indexed from the rankings.

[amplify]

Why not add this to your robots.txt file:

User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /my_page.html

Google won't come back to that page and eventually it will be deindexed.

A nice page I found about the robots.txt file: http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02...ech/robots.htm

[PokerPie]

amplify,

I do not own the site in question nor can I add anything to any of the files on the site.

[amplify]

So, the page in question is a competing website which ranks high and you want your pages to bump this one or is it a page of one of your clients that you do not control? Either way, you're saying you cannot modify the files.

The only methods I know to have one or all pages deindexed by Google is either using the robots.txt or the noindex metatag. It can be expedited by using the removal request tool.

If this isn't your site and you just want to rank higher than the page, the only thing you can do is to create more pages yourself and optimize them. Eventually using this method will bump it back farther. Google may group these results as well (1 main listing and "More results from...") which wouldn't help out at all, it would let the other page be higher if anything.

Good luck!

[Dirty SEO]

Does this page contain any material of yours you can claim as copyright? If so, you can try a DMCA takedown. Otherwise, what you initially mentioned is probably your best bet. Create profiles on several sites you can rank, eventually you can bury them.

[PokerPie]

So, the page in question is a competing website which ranks high and you want your pages to bump this one or is it a page of one of your clients that you do not control? Either way, you're saying you cannot modify the files.

Funny that not a single person appears to have read what I wrote in the OP. The site contains information about me which I do not like. I want it lower in the search results or gone completely.

The only methods I know to have one or all pages deindexed by Google is either using the robots.txt or the noindex metatag. It can be expedited by using the removal request tool.

It doesn't appear to meet any of those qualifications but I submitted it as an old or dead page, maybe I'll get lucky. It is from 2002, so who knows. Thanks.

If this isn't your site and you just want to rank higher than the page, the only thing you can do is to create more pages yourself and optimize them. Eventually using this method will bump it back farther. Google may group these results as well (1 main listing and "More results from...") which wouldn't help out at all, it would let the other page be higher if anything.

I was not aware of the grouping of results but I don't think that will be an issue. There are a bunch of websites with my name in them that are not similar. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, my blogs, other websites that mention me - etc. I think I just need to keep doing SEO on all of those pages. Shouldn't be too hard as nobody but me is targeting my name.

Thanks again.

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Does this page contain any material of yours you can claim as copyright? If so, you can try a DMCA takedown. Otherwise, what you initially mentioned is probably your best bet. Create profiles on several sites you can rank, eventually you can bury them.

No copyright material.

[Arragon]

I think you can in your google webmaster tool. there is an option to tell Google that you want to remove page from indexing.
After doing that you should add a META tag or robots.txt to block your page of being accessible by search engines.