Playbook
How to Find and Remove Every Copy of a Negative Article
Fixing the original isn't enough when other sites copied it.
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- No hourly billing
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The steps
- 1Search the exact headline in quotes.
- 2Search one unusual sentence from the article in quotes.
- 3Check news apps and aggregators that republish stories.
- 4Check archive sites.
- 5List every copy with its link and site owner.
- 6Once the original is fixed, send each site the updated version.
- 7Ask Google to refresh copies that have changed.
Archive sites
- The Internet Archive accepts removal requests.
- Explain why and include the exact links.
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This playbook is part of Remove Negative Search Results. See the model behind every playbook on the playbooks page.
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