Looking for advice/recommendations. Does anyone have experience dealing with a PR firm or a reputation management firm that can help push down negative news about oneself on an internet search? Are some firms better than others? I have heard cheaper firms may actually make one’s situation worst given how the Google search algorithm works.

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Obligatory: Nice try Mark Z.

Real answer: A friend had a minor arrest for doing something stupid while drunk in college. (Trespassing for a prank or something like that) it was a first page search result when you searched her name. The online reputation company just wrote a bunch of bland blog posts about her “Jane doe loves puppies” on blogs they controlled, and then they used SEO to get them to push the police blotter about her arrest down to page 3 of Google. If that’s all you’re looking for than they seem to work fine based on this one datapoint.

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