Google Search Rankings

Happy Monday

How do I lower google rankings of my own name which come up at the top of page 1?

All answers greatly appreciated.

28064212

Do you have control of the site that is ranking highly? Look up robots.txt

Happy Monday

28064212 wrote: »

Do you have control of the site that is ranking highly? Look up robots.txt

No - it is a local media website outside my control.
It ranks ahead of facebook, linkedin etc on google.ie

28064212

Happy Monday wrote: »

No - it is a local media website outside my control.
It ranks ahead of facebook, linkedin etc on google.ie

Then the only way is to optimize the sites that you do have control over, in order to push them above the local media site

Happy Monday

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/

this is what appears on the offending website for robots.txt

28064212

Happy Monday wrote: »

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/

this is what appears on the offending website for robots.txt

Doesn't matter, it's obviously not blocking Google, and you can't change it. As above, you can't realistically lower that page's ranking, you can only make yours higher