Tips to Manage Reputation Rip Off Report.com
If you found this site then it is very likely you have been a victim of Rip Off Report. Rip Off Report.com is a highly authoritative site with the search engines and is therefore ver very tough to dela with. Once your own name or that of your company is on their website it will show up very high in your search engine rankings. Once this damaging website enters your search results it will stay ranked very high for your name until it is dealt with.
So, how do you work with Rip Off Report when they have posted negative information about your company? Below is a few ideas
Just Sue them?
– This is the first option most of our larger clients consider when they Manage Reputation. The issue is that this is a losing proposition. Rip Off Report is protected by a law passed in 1996 called the CDA or Communications Decency Act. This law seems to completely shield them from any lawsuit based on the content they host about you. So, you may be able to sue and beat in court the person who posted your Rip Off Report but you cannot successfully sue the website itself.
2. Take The Person To Court
Here is a lawsuit you may win if you can prove what the individual wrote about your company is not the truth. The issue with this approach is how can you realistically find the individual and prove they posted the bad post? Most people rarely use their real name but instead use aliases. It is possible to get a court order to force RipOffReport.com to submit the persons computer IP address but this will usually lead nowhere. Even if you do get the end user’s real address you may find that they used one of an number of ways to conceal the real IP or they simply posted the Rip Off Report from the local bookstore or coffee house. In many cases there in little or real “trail”. You can spend months and tens of thousands of dollars to find out the person used an alias and hid their true location. In the extremely unlikely event that they turn up this is not going to remove your Rip Off Report. Once content is posted to RipOffReport.com it becomes their property. The individual who posted the report does not have the ability to ever delete the post.
