Quote: (05-14-2015 12:04 PM)polar Wrote:
Even if you search optimize the first few pages of Google with good content it'd come up with a targeted search as any serious background check would do. I.e. Google "John Doe" + (crime OR arrest OR court) ...etc.
True, the only true way to make this go away is to go through the court process of getting this expunged and then try to get it taken off all the websites. It's a lot of work, a buddy of mine had to go through the same thing for a possession of paraphanalia charge. It's a huge headache but worth it.
Just populating the first couple pages of google results won't hide it from a background check but will stop just a casual searcher from finding it. Could be anything from someone your dating, to your parents, or heck, some jobs don't do full scale background checks or hire a service but just do a casual google search.
At my old workplace it was a startup, we didn't drug test and weren't big on background checks or anything like that. that said before we interviewed people we would google them just to see what popped up. It was almost as much out of curiousity as it was to guage them as a job prospect. We didn't dig too deep just whatever popped up took a quick glance. You'd be shocked that some people applying for a professional job have a non private facebook account with pics of them snorting coke and stuff like that.
At my previous place like I said it was all younger people, I don't think anyone even really had an issue with the coke so much as if you are stupid enough to have that on facebook for us to find we don't want to hire you.
If you really want this gone you need to go through the expungement process. If you don't want to do that next best option is hire a reputation management service and lastly doing it yourself won't be perfect but is better than nothing.