Hi Reddit!

I’m hoping someone can help me out. My family has a renovation company. Someone I had a falling out with set up some SEO so that when the business is googled, an article about nightmare renovations in my city comes up. The article is completely unrelated to our company and our company is not mentioned anywhere in the article.

This is hurting us with prospective clients because they see the article, but don’t bother reading it.

We’ve reached out to the newspaper and told them our story, but there is nothing they can do about it as the SEO is not on their end. We’ve asked them to take the article down but they will not do that just because of our situation.

How can we remedy this, and how can we track where the SEO was set up?

Thanks in advance