Rip Off Report R.I.P.

As of today 10th of August, Google are claiming that ROR accidentally removed themselves from Google’s index. That’s a real shame as it means they will come back.  We cannot but hope . 

Finally the good people at Google seem to have caught up with the Rip Off Report and they are no more. A search for rippoffreport.com shows zero pages indexed. I knew Google would do it eventually. It is and always has been a vile site which deliberately abused CDA 230 to cause unbelivable harm and suffering to many innocent people. The site was a haven for lunatics and competitors who wanted to to hurt you. We ourselves were victims of a malicious attack which used the rip off report. It was already dying off in Google so it did not cause us too much grief. I have had much exposure to the rip off report over the past 7 years and although I believe they abused the power Google gave them I still do not think it was a bad idea in principal, except that they would not take any moral responsibility for the way the site was used to do malicious harm. Even when you could prove with absolute clarity the attack was malicious they would not budge.  Contact an attorney they would tell you when you could prove in 2 seconds the report was false.  Even when you went down the legal route they still would not remove the malicious reports.  Karma is a bitch.
Now Google you got it with Rip Off Report eventually.  Pissed Consumer is even worse and uses much more spam SEO than Rip Off Report when are you going to take action against this low quality site deliberately gaming your results to capture lucrative brand traffic with its so called consumer advocacy reports. Come on Google you are good people do the right thing investigate this site. Rip the evil Panda on them!


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  1. Garry Says:

    Thanks for your article, Fionn. We’ve all been hit with scorned customers it seems. I stumbled on your blog. You have some really nice pieces. I enjoy reading about your SEO and Internet pieces. Bookmarking. And GOD FORBID, you might even get a natural link or two from me, too. I think I found you off of Graywolf’s post regarding natural linking failure. Ironic that you’ll be getting linked to now.

    Cheers and keep up the good work.

    I purposefully left the website field blank in my profile to let you know I am NOT spam or trying some BS no-followed link building/comment spamming project.

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