Normally I’d be happy if my web sites got high Google ratings, but this is a bit weird.
Many years ago I bought the domain ars.org.uk. I used it to host an Agency Rating System where IT contractors could share opinions about recruitment agents they had worked with.
After a few years of operation it became obvious that the system was open to too much abuse and left me open to potential libel actions so I took the site down and replaced it with a page just saying “this page intentionally left blank”.
But I’ve just had a phone call from a very confused woman who works for a company called Jacobson Fund Management. If you do a Google search for the company name, the first hit you get back is for ars.org.uk.
Now if they were a recruitment agency and someone had once said rude things about them on the site I could understand it, but they are fund managers. And, as far as I can tell, they always have been.
I wonder if I’ve made the situation worse by mentioning both the company and the web site in this entry :)
This sort of thing is usually due to somebody linking to your site, and the link text they’ve used. But in this case – http://www.google.com/search?q=link:http%3A//www.ars.org.uk/ – that doesn’t seem to be it.I’ve had #1 Google hit problems of my own: http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/001582.html. Though thankfully, I’m no longer a hit for that.