Guides

How this actually works, written for the person it is happening to.

Most of what is on these pages you can do yourself. We wrote them anyway. If you would rather have us do it, you know where we are.

• October 26, 2026

  How to remove a Google review that breaks the rules (and what to do about the ones that don’t)

  Google removes reviews that violate its policies, not reviews that are merely unfair. Here is how to tell the difference, how to report one properly, and what to do when it stays.

• October 26, 2026

  Mugshot removal: what the sites must take down, what Google will drop, and what to do about the rest

  If your case was dismissed, expunged or sealed, most mugshot sites and Google will remove the record with documentation. Here is the order of operations.

• October 26, 2026

  How to get your home address off people-search sites, and keep it off

  Whitepages, Spokeo, BeenVerified, Radaris and hundreds of others publish your address, phone and relatives. Opt-outs work. Doing them in the right order, and repeating them, is what keeps you off.

• October 26, 2026

  What Google will remove from search, what it won’t, and what suppression actually means

  Google removes a defined list of things: personal information, explicit images, doxxing, content about minors, copyright, court-ordered defamation. Everything else has to be outranked. Here is the full map.