Title: Melania no more: why did Donald Trump take down his wife's website? | Melania Trump | The Guardian
Headings: Melania no more: why did Donald Trump take down his wife's website?
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Melania no more: why did Donald Trump take down his wife's website?
Dan Tynan in San Francisco
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As a nominee for the presidency, the only way to control your online reputation is through your statements and actions

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If the Trumps were attempting to hide this information, they went about it the wrong way, says Aaron Minc, an internet defamation attorney who specializes in removing things from the net. If Trump really wanted to remove this information, he would have deleted the site before having it redirect to Trump.com, says Minc, and then notified Google to remove it from its search engine cache. “There are ways to permanently delete things from the net, but you have to act quickly and do the right things, especially if you’re under public scrutiny,” he says. To keep pages out of the Internet Archive, website owners can add a file to their site’s main directory called Robots.txt containing the word “disallow”, says Graham. This will prevent the archive’s bots from crawling the site’s pages. Rich Matta, CEO of ReputationDefender, says there isn’t much a public figure such as Trump can do besides change the behavior that creates the negative publicity in the first place. “We have worked with some individuals that have similarly massive public profiles as Donald Trump and that have a penchant for making controversial statements,” says Matta. “ But when you reach the level of intense scrutiny of a major party nominee for the presidency, the only realistic way to control your online reputation is through your own statements and actions.”