Timothy,
Here's an EASY way to minimize the damage of this article: flood Google with MORE articles about you and take over the real estate.
How many pages of Google do people search? 1, 2, MAYBE 3.
So YOU want to create lots of material which will force the old, static information about you to the END of the line.
How do you do this? Create a blog, use your name on it in the "signature" at the end (as I do on THIS post), and keep writing.
If you search MY name, Charles Seymour Jr (or Charlie Seymour Jr) you will see that I "own" the first 9 pages or so of search results. There are MANY thousands of pages (not all about me) that come up when a search on my name comes up and I have 8, 9, or 10 mentions on each of those first pages.
So, anything from years ago (being old and not changing, the way a blog changes) will be forced to back in the Google search.
Voila... THAT is your solution. And hey, it's a GOOD one in two ways - (1) you put out great material about you so when people search about you they find out what you think on one or more topics (keyword areas) and (2) it pushes the damaging material way back.
CURRENT info trumps old, static info every time.
Hope this helps! Good luck with this!
Charlie Seymour Jr
http://ultimateworkathomedads.com/
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Timothy, Here's an EASY way to minimize the damage of this article: flood Google with MORE articles about you and take over the real estate. How many pages of Google do people search? 1, 2, MAYBE 3. So YOU want to create lots of material which will force the old, static information about you to the END of the line. How do you do this? Create a blog, use your name on it in the "signature" at the end (as I do on THIS post), and keep writing. If you search MY name, Charles Seymour Jr (or Charlie Seymour Jr) you will see that I "own" the first 9 pages or so of search results. There are MANY thousands of pages (not all about me) that come up when a search on my name comes up and I have 8, 9, or 10 mentions on each of those first pages. So, anything from years ago (being old and not changing, the way a blog changes) will be forced to back in the Google search. Voila... THAT is your solution. And hey, it's a GOOD one in two ways - (1) you put out great material about you so when people search about you they find out what you think on one or more topics (keyword areas) and (2) it pushes the damaging material way back. CURRENT info trumps old, static info every time. Hope this helps! Good luck with this! Charlie Seymour Jr http://ultimateworkathomedads.com/