Burying negative articles on Google?

Hi,

I would like to get some advices on how to push 3 results from the first page to the second page of Google.

Indeed when I type my friend name + his job, 3 pretty negative articles appear on the first page ( 4th, 7 th, 8th) from major publication. the keyword difficulty is 48 on kwfinder.

Would appreciate if you can guide me with the best methods and an approximative cost.

Oh jeez, that is not an ideal situation.

What do you think a budget would be for this? If this was something I was undertaking, it would likely be a 8 to 10 month process, with a minimum startup cost of $1,000 upfront, and then an additional $1,000 per month.

Great content, published on great sites, leads to great rankings.

That's the approach we take. Finding great locations is the tough part. It's easy to get good content written, but getting it published is a different story.

After it's published it will often need to be pushed up.

A single piece of published content is unlikely to rank, especially if you're new and don't have an expectation based on historical data. We typically know what sites will rank well because we have so much history to look at.

I really like expert commentary, guest posts, interviews, EMD's, and a couple social media sites.