Today’s Ask an SEO question comes from Sonia in Maharashtra, who wrote:
“Hey, I am facing an issue of trying to outrank an article that speaks negatively about our company. It keeps ranking on the first page even after tremendous efforts we’ve made to build backlinks, so I wondered if disavowing their link to our site will help in pushing their article to the third or fourth page of results.”
I empathize with the pain apparent in this question.
When negative content about your company ranks highly in the search engine results, the most frequent response is panic.
Advertisement
Continue Reading Below
Everyone from the CEO to the lowest level employee wants the negative content to disappear right away.
Dealing with negative items is akin to the stages of grief.
And of course, the first stage of grief is denial.