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This is an interesting topic. A company had a problem with their search results because blogs were ranking higher than they were in the natural search result pages.

I have been running the site for over two years and we have been ranked very highly for the search term [edited].

On Thursday morning I checked our google positions and your site is now above us for this term. I haev checked your blog and it has nothing to do with [edited], so I think it would be best all round if you remove your blog from google for this search term.

Please understand that we make our living from this, and you are just writing a blog that has nothing to do with [edited].

If you do not remove yourself from google for this search, then I will call them myself and have you removed.

That is an interesting strategy to use to get higher rankings. Personally, I would never use it. Google ranks search results based on a lot of different factors and if you don’t rank high enough, you need to do better marketing.

I would never choose the ladder of asking someone to remove their site. That’s true and poor business practice.