How to Remove Negative Content From Google Search

A single damaging result at the top of your name in Google can cost you customers, jobs, and trust. Here is how to address it the right way, which is the only way that lasts.

Remove at the source first

The most durable fix is removing the content where it lives. If a post is defamatory, violates a platform's rules, or breaks the law, it can often be taken down at the source.

De-index where appropriate

Where Google policy or the law allows, you can request that a page be removed from search results even if it still exists, for example pages with personal information or non-consensual content.

Suppress what cannot be removed

Honest criticism usually cannot be removed, but it can be outweighed. Building accurate, positive content that earns the top positions pushes the damaging result down where few people look.

Our reputation and defamation cleanup team combines removal, de-indexing, and suppression for results that hold.