Did you open this link to check if negative news articles can be deleted? If yes, then you’ll be glad to know that it is possible!  

Sometimes, you may have been involved in a false case and got acquitted from the court, only to realise that you are still being judged. This usually happens when newspapers have not taken out negative articles about your case, and ignored to mention your current ‘not guilty’ status.

Removing a negative news article can be tricky, especially if you’re trying to do it for the first time. Fortunately, we have helped a lot of our clients escape from similar predicaments. This guide will focus on tips to remove an online news article.

While assessing the removal of online news articles from the internet, you have to go over some important questions.

You have to understand that the offices of newspaper outlets, often cannot deal with “unpublishing”. Therefore, to maintain their selfish interests, sometimes they will cross ethical limits. Most of the time, the media is able to get away with their misuse of privacy or copyright laws because the affected individuals are not aware of these laws. Hence, older people and naïve people are exploited unjustly.

To recognise your say in the matter, bear in mind, that if a website has published false or malicious information about you and you are able to prove it, then you can force the publication to modify or remove the content. In some cases, you can even extract an apology from them.

Publications can lose a great deal of money if they fail in a libel case when they ignore your calls to delete defamatory or false information from a news article—considering your claim was fair. Thus, keep in mind that you are covered by law in such scenarios.

To begin with, follow these tips to remove an online news article.

If you have made up your mind to delete your information from the news story of a website, then you have to reach out to the guy who actually manages that website—preferably someone who calls the shot for content uploads.

There are some websites which have their own procedure and structure to deal with these takedown requests, however it is better that you gain hold of the actual website administrator.

Look for the contact number of the webmaster or the publication’s writer. According to our findings, a person who has enough technical knowledge to delete the content from the website is your best bet.

This can ensure that you communicate your demand with an individual who knows their stuff and does not have to rely on others to grant your request. Try your best to avoid the legal department of that website because they take up a great deal of time.

You can find the contact number at the footer (bottom) of the website in the “Contact Us” section. Some websites may not have any contact information. For such cases, you can utilise some tricks via online search. This search is known as “Who Is” search and is free to use. What you have to do is just visit this  link .

Search for the name of the website. In return, you can get a lot of details about it like the city, postal code, country, and most importantly—their contact information including contact number, fax, and email.

After you dial the number, most likely a receptionist will take your call. Ask her to connect you to someone from the website management who is known to upload content on the website.

The previous step can fail in cases where the website is registered through a proxy and does not have a phone number because of other reasons. However, there is still a way.

You can search for their personal email. In case you are unable to get your hands on personal email addresses, you can channel your inner logic to figure out what they could be.

Some websites have a generic employee email format. For such websites, you can try a “first_name@abc.com” format. Additionally, websites like  this  can provide you with email formats of the most well-known websites.

It is quite a hassle to legally convince the website to remove your content. Therefore, in the beginning you can make genuine and polite requests. Consider yourself to be a lawyer where you must represent your case through a rational and convincing argument.

It is a nice practice to do your homework in order to have a greater degree of clarity. Take note of the following.

Consider the scenario in which the website—that published fake or defamatory news article on you\—finally agrees and removes your contact. All is good until you search yourself again on the internet, only to be repulsed by the fact that Google still shows the negative news article for you. To deal with this dilemma, you can take help from Google itself in the form of its Google’s URL Removal Tool.

All you need is a valid Google’s user account. Sign-in to it and click the button with the text “New removal request”. Subsequently, paste the hyperlink for the website which is not updated yet. In the “reason” option, choose “The page has changed and Google’s cached version is out of date”.

Make sure to stick to the guide in the next few steps. In the end, you can complete your submission of the request. Google’s action—whether it accepts or rejects your stance—is revealed in the initial 48 hours.

Ideally, the other party should easily delete all the outdated, false, or negative news articles about you from the internet. However, the real world is darker and grittier where you cannot always win the battle—no matter how “right” is your position.

Therefore, while you should try your best to delete according to your capabilities, you can also bury down your negative news stories through the influx of positive information.

This means that you can generate positive content by using the services of an online reputation management service that can help to suppress those news articles and build your image in such a way that you are seen positively in the online realm. To do this, you have multiple ways.

There are some social media platforms and online forums which are continuously ranking high on SERPs (search engine result pages). Create your profile on these websites and fill it with your information. Make sure that your privacy is public.

In this way, whenever you are searched on the internet, then these results are shown on the first page while the uglier and negative news articles can shift to Google’s second page—an online space where hardly anyone goes into. These popular websites include Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, About.ME, Google, Blogger, Tumblr, Quora, and Reddit.

If you are unfamiliar with Google’s metrics to rank a website, then one of the primary factors to rank a website is the number of links which are attached to it.

What you can do is that make sure that all of your online links have linked each other. Moreover, make other credible and authentic websites to add your link. You can do this by creating quality content so others are compelled to reference your content.

Experiment and search your name on Google by trying different combinations. Identify which is the exact keyword which generates negative search results on your name.

When you identify it, then you have to adopt that keyword and design your SEO strategy in such a way that whenever that keyword is searched your positive content is generated first while the negative content from the new article keeps getting is buried down.

Search about copyright infringement and other legal violations. Assess if the website is breaking the law in any way. Go to this  link  and choose “Web Search”. From here, Google can guide you about how to file a legal request in complete detail. Generally, Google allows content removal for multiple reasons.