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Great answer, Ryan. And yes, I did a Google search on the client's name and his year of birth. After some digging, I did find a Freebase article on him that listed his year of birth, so I simply edited the date out. We'll see if that works.

Thanks so much for your fast and thorough response!

I have a client who is facing age discrimination in the film industry. (Big surprise there.) The problem is, when you type in his name, Google's new Knowledge Graph displays a brief bio about him to the right of the search results. This bio snippet includes his year of birth. Wikipedia is credited as the source for the bio information about him, and yet, his Wikipedia entry doesn't include his age or birth date. Neither does his iMDb bio. So the question is, How can he figure out where Google is getting that birthdate from? He wants to try and remove it, not falsify it. Thanks for any help you can offer.

A client wants to know if it's possible to get Google to remove stories from Google News feeds if those stories have nothing to do with the client?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Thanks so much your helpful advice. I really appreciate it! Jim

I have a client who has a popular name (like 'Joe Smith'). His blog URL has only his first name and the name of his company in it, like joe.company.com.

His blog doesn't rank well at all in the first 3-4 Google SERPs. I was thinking of advising him to change the URL of his blog to joesmith.company.com, and having his webmaster do 301 redirects from the old URL to the new one.

Do you think this is a good strategy, or would you recommend something else? I realize ranking isn't just about the URL, it's about links, etc. But I think making his URL more specific to his name could help.

Any advice greatly appreciated! Jim