If I post a complaint on a company, will that show up when someone searches for that company?

Question

So when someone googles company "XYZ Industries", and I post a complaint on a website (services were not delivered) are for example yahoo or google searches able to find that and show results right there with the search (based on their relativity of course). I imagine also it depends on the website I use - there are a number of complaint ones out there. So far Im just in the middle of the dispute and have not tried it although I spose I could do a fake company, but looking for a quick answer here.

Answer 1

It depends on the website you submit a complaint with, as well as how far down the list someone goes when performing an Internet search. If someone googles Sony and gets 50,000 hits and your complaint shows up towards the end of the list, I doubt anyone will ever get to it. Actually, if you complaint shows up on or past the third page, I doubt anybody will ever find it.

It would be better to locate the company on the Better Business Bureau's website and file a complaint with them. They'll actually take steps to help resolve the situation for you, free of charge.

Answer 2

In short: No.

Longer answer: I picked a company at random (Hoover) which I am sure is an utterly fab company, I then searched for it with Google.

It reckons there are 34,300,000 hits (approximately). Now for you to get your web page in the top ten pages, you will need to provide more relevant search terms and content than 33,299,900 other pages already out there.

This may prove time consuming.

If you *DO* find a way of doing it however, you would want to contact some of the website position companies - who are paid SERIOUS money to get their companies high rankings - you would have a talent they wll pay handsomely for.

If the company in question is tiny - so that few few pages exist about them, then it may be more possible - however I would suggest thatyou had much better things to do with your time than waste it providing extra publicity for them.

Remember the old adage of no publicity is bad publicity. It is not QUITE true, but certaijnly if your complaint was jsut one of delivery, they might be very happy for a million people to hear about them through you - after all, only perhaps 10% would be overly bothered by delivery delays, 900,000 might want to give them some business.

Suggestion? Move on with your aims, ambitions, hopesm dreams and life, do not waste it playing revenge games that will almost certainly have NO effect - or may even BENFIT the company that annoyed you.

Answer 3

Just make sure your site is hosted on a decent webserver preferably with its own IP address and be sure to include all the search terms in the text at the beginning of your site.

The search engines like google scan your pages and index the text on the site. so if you include Company name a few time in your first para graph you may get a few hits.

try http://searchenginewatch.com/ for the gospel according to search engines

Another tradition a few years back was to host your site at www.(company)sucks.com.

I cannot find the most famous origional site www.aolsucks.com but there are plenty of sites dedicated to complaining.

Answer 4

In theory yes - the complaint should be retrieved when someone does a web search. However it might not be one of the first hits (i.e. it could be on the second page of hits when someone searches for Co. XYZ) and therefore might never get noticed......

Answer 5

Pls dont try anything funny tht may endanger you. Always read the privacy statement of companies carefully befor going trying to dig your grave.

Answer 6

NO!