People arrive with one question: can you make it go away? The honest answer has three parts, and knowing which part your result falls into saves you money and weeks.
Can be removed at the source
- Content that breaks the platform's own rules: impersonation, harassment, private material, doxxing.
- Content that infringes something you own: your photos, your video, your text.
- Content that is unlawful where it is hosted, with the right request to the host.
- Once the source is gone, search engines drop it, sometimes with a nudge.
Can be delisted, not removed
- Pages that reveal private data such as an address, a document number, or intimate images. Search engines remove these from results even when the page stays up.
- Outdated pages that still show in results after the content changed. A refresh request fixes that.
- In the European Union and the United Kingdom, results about you that are inaccurate, irrelevant or excessive, through a formal request. That right does not exist in the same form in the Gulf, so do not pay anyone who sells it to you here.
The first group and the private-data part of the second can often be done yourself, free, and the steps are here.
Cannot be touched
- Accurate journalism about a matter of public interest.
- Court records and official registers, where the law makes them public.
- Reviews and opinions that are unpleasant but honest.
Anyone promising to delete these is selling you something. What can be done is to build what stands in front of them: accurate, substantial, well-linked material about you that search engines prefer to rank. It takes time to build, and then it holds.
Send me the exact searches and the results that concern you. You get back a list sorted into these three groups before anything is priced.
