How do I remove myself from the search engines?

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Zallas does not have a refund policy. You will probably will not see your money. RemoveYourName.com is the only company that has a full guarantee. I have researched all of these companies. Good luck

Dear Sir,

About a year ago I wanted to -google- my name within -Google-,-Yahoo-, MSN, Alta Vista, and others by typing it within the search windows because, after being interviewed by a legitimate news-reporter (it was about sports), they told me to search on the internet for the relative publication with my name on it; it was a leggitimate publication; later I was able to find it and it was O.K.: a few months later, by just -googling- again my name, -strange- headlines started popping out on the pages with my name showing, and by just clicking on these, -illegitimate- web sites would follow: now it's a 'huge' mess and I tried to have all of these pages removed, but then others started to come out!!! What am I supposed to do? How can I stop my name being used as a link to these -awful- web sites? Is it convenient to use the services available on line, or is it waisted money? Which ones would you suggest, and how was it possible to have my name within all of this? I noticed later that other people identities
were stolen for the same purpose (many of them) and are names that belong to various well known personalities among the financial world, CEO's, Politicians, etc., etc. ; Hope to find a way out!

Thanks for any help and Regards,

Frank

Jason Stanton, ha? Well, CyberFootprints didn't work at the end... and I'm not sure if posting ficticious feedback really speaks too well about you guys... Nobody sane, after having this problem, posts their name online like this. If you keep promoting fake articles like this, I'm going to see if you can help yourselves fix this issue. You couldn't help me, so I doubt you could help anyone.

The only sane way to stay anonymous is to create a secondary screen name and/or email for internet posting purposes only. Keep your professional email/screen name for business purposes only. This way you won't get criticized or slandered for posting what you want!

I have a poblem with my name search on googel, one day i was just looking and searching my self and my name came up as that i have a sex video on that website and wen i contacted the webmaster he saids there is nothing he can do as someone must have searched for me on that website for a few time now is just registerd there and he cant remove it please help me as i dont want people to search for me and my name coiming up on some sort of porn website

Friggin' internet. Bringing us closer together, huh? How about it destroying people's lives.

To remove my name from the first 3 pages of Google, I used Reputation-Technologies.com (http://www.reputation-technologies.com) and it works well, but takes quite a while... took 2 months for me, to be exact. I've tried doing it myself, and I guess, I could do it, if I had 3-4 hours to dedicate to this burden for 2 months straight, but I just don't. So the way I look at it, it was worth a few thousand to make sure it's off first 3 pages and I don't get harrassed about it ever now. Good luck with yours!

I had my name on a few websites and they refused to remove it. I tried legal action and nothing worked. Supposedly freedom of speech isn't always a good thing working in favor of good people :)

Nevertheless, there are a few companies that I found that deal with this problem: first is www.reputation-technologies.com - these guys are dedicated to this online reputation business thing, and since it's their bread and butter, I'm guessing they are pretty good at it. Haven't tried them though... Second, www.cleanmy.name - besides a cool name, these guys are pretty cheap and have a few packages from $49/mo. Last, but not least is the company I actually went with and they did a really great job. They are on a more expensive side and they are really a technology company and this service is just one of the departments they have, but I thought I'd share: www.zallas.com is their website. Tell them Mike at 323 referred you, - maybe you'll get some sort of discount ;)

Good luck!

Reputation-Technologies.com worked and only took 3 weeks! It was fairly inexpensive, after I called the rest of these companies and when I google my name now, the negative results are pushed back to page 3. Good luck!

Yes, I signed with zallas.com and they are a bit more expensive then Reputation-Technologies.com folks, but they know what they are doing... Not suggesting that Reputation-Technologies don't know what they are doing, but zallas just have their stuff together when I talked to them. Will see how it works though; so far the negative link is only off to page 2.

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