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Ripoff reports can pop up from time to time, and it’s best not to ignore them when they appear on Google. However, you don’t want to just bury these negative reviews by paying off the person who posted them either. It’s possible to remove ripoff reports from Google and other search engines completely so that only the positive reviews appear on the first page of results.
What is the Ripoff Report?
Ripoff Report is a website that displays reports made by an individual against another. For example, if Bob says that Alice ripped him off by selling him fake pharmaceuticals, Alice can dispute Bob’s report. If her rebuttal convinces Ripoff Report, it’ll replace Bob’s report with one of her own explaining what happened (it doesn’t always do so). It doesn’t matter whether or not she was guilty. Whether or not she was guilty, someone who didn’t like her could have put up a false report about her with no legal consequences for doing so.
The Legal Immunity Of Ripoff Report
This is known as Section 230 of Title 47, United States Code. The upshot is that if you publish something defamatory on your own website, you can be sued for libel. If you publish something defamatory on someone else’s website (like Ripoff Report), then Section 230 provides you with complete immunity from liability for defamation so long as you didn’t know about it and didn’t participate in creating it. For example, if I write a post saying John Smith is a crook, then I can get sued for defamation because I’m publishing my own statement about John Smith.
Take a look at these tips if you need help with how to remove ripoff reports from Google or other search engines:
- Understand how search engines work
- Submit a rebuttal
- Join the Ripoff Report “Corporate Advocacy Program”
- File a Ripoff Report Lawsuit
- Sue the original author
- Hire a reputation management company
- Follow up on any missed opportunities
- Contact Domain Owners
- Understand how search engines work
First, it’s important to understand how search engines work. Every day, search engines crawl hundreds of millions of websites, including any ripoff reports that happen to be on them. Since new pages are constantly being added, content is added and deleted (among other things), a fresh crawl is done every 24 hours. In general, if you want something removed from one of these sites (and not just buried in a corner somewhere), you need to act fast! If your report was added yesterday or even two days ago—there’s still hope! But keep in mind that you’ll have a much harder time getting it off search results if they have been online for weeks or months.
- Submit a rebuttal
Before your rebuttal is posted, it will be reviewed by our professional staff. We may contact you to make changes or additions before we publish your rebuttal. Once your rebuttal has been published, it will be posted in multiple locations throughout our website. We reserve all rights to not publish a rebuttal if it does not adhere to our guidelines or contains false information.
- Join The Ripoff Report “Corporate Advocacy Program”
If you’re like many small business owners, you may be reluctant to pay Ripoff Report to remove your listing because you don’t believe paying a reputation management company is part of a good strategy. However, there are at least two reasons why you might want to reconsider:
1) Ripoff Report offers a Corporate Advocacy Program. For $499 per year or $50/month (less than a dollar per day!), Ripoff Report will advocate for you.
2) If you have been in business for at least two years, have an average rating of 3.5 stars or higher, have fewer than 20 complaints filed against your company, and are willing to sign a contract saying that you’ll work with them on resolving any customer complaints they can’t resolve on their own, then it might be worth paying Ripoff Report $1,000-$3,000+ to get your listing removed.
- File a Ripoff Report Lawsuit
Ripoff Report cannot be sued for defamation. Instead, Ripoff Report can only be sued for other reasons.
The privilege of making a statement about a person without fear of being sued for defamation does not extend to the Ripoff Report.
If you want to file a Ripoff Report lawsuit, you can sue them under 47 U.S.C.
- Sue the original author
The last way to get rid of a negative ripoff report is by having your attorney write a cease-and-desist letter. The idea here is that you don’t want to simply bury bad search results, but rather eliminate them completely. In order to accomplish that, you’ll need either an attorney or public relations expert who can write a letter threatening legal action if they don’t remove it. For all its usefulness, though, suing over a single web page will likely cost you more than just letting it go.
- Hire a reputation management company
While anyone can file a Rip-Off Report, these sites are filled with false information. The last thing you want is for potential clients or employers to stumble upon lies about your business. If you do nothing, those posts will likely stay on top of search results for years – meaning that no matter what kind of campaign you run now, it’s likely nothing will budge them anytime soon.
Instead, hire a reputable company (such as RipoffReportRemovalHelp or CoreSwipe Technologies) that specializes in search engine repair services and make sure your reports are either removed or buried beneath pages of other more relevant results.
- Follow up on any missed opportunities
Missed opportunities aren’t what they used to be. With today’s information overload, it’s easy for deals to slip through your fingers.
A missed opportunity doesn’t necessarily have to be a lost one, though. When someone is interested in working with you but isn’t ready at that time, reach out again when he or she is.
In many cases, you may find your original contact has moved on—or gotten a new job—but even so, reaching out will show you value future business over past performance and make for an easier sale if you get another chance.
Missed opportunities aren’t just about sales; they’re also valuable marketing tools.
- Contact Domain Owners
Before you can get a ripoff report removed, you need to contact the person who owns or registered for that particular website. When you do so, though, don’t use aggressive or confrontational language. It may sound counterintuitive, but people are more likely to take down something from their site if they feel like they’re being asked nicely. Offer them an incentive—like linking back to their site with a review—in exchange for taking down a false report about your business.
If that doesn’t work? Send them an official Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice. The DMCA is a federal law that requires websites to remove anything copyright infringing if they want to keep using Google AdSense.
Final wrap up
I could spend pages on why you shouldn’t use these services. There are other well reviewed articles online that go into detail about how a lot of companies out there claiming to remove reports from ripoff reports are scam artists who will either not do anything or spend a lot of money for very little results. I cannot say enough how much I would NOT recommend contacting these companies. They’ve ruined lives and people deserve to know what happens when they hire one of these supposed ripoff report removal services. That’s all for now, I hope my insights have helped in some way!
