Dealing with a former associate's bad behavior

[ericbarbier]

A former associate (law firm) has gotten into hot water since leaving the firm. The problem is that he has numerous profiles across the web that are still associated with the firm's address and website. A search for his name in Google often leads directly to the law firm or their profiles.

Is there anything that can be done to dis-associate the firm from this person?

Thanks

[WhiteboardCreations]

Eric,

Sounds like you need Online Reputation Management (ORM) services or a company which can actually take on this project, since it will require the efforts to contact each of the websites, directories, social sites, etc to communicate with them that the Associate is no longer with the firm and may create more bad than good for the firm's website and reputation.

Unless you can get this Associate to login and remove their information from the profiles (if he actually created the profiles), then I would consult with some local companies who provide this service. We used to provide it, but it is a lot of work and not all the time beneficial and effective. Meaning, it doesn't always work as you need to get the site's owners/webmasters to get in and physically remove the links which are showing in the SERPs. It's a lot of work for you, the ORM company and the actual company who's hosting the link.

Hope this was helpful, but that's the route I'd go and recommend.

Patrick

[dotfly]

I agree with Patrick - ORM is neccessary to overcome that and it`s always a lot of manual work... wish you all the best!

[ericbarbier]

This is very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to provide really good information.

[ericbarbier]

Thank you very much for you for your feedback. I'm dreading all of this manual work.