Case Study / Justice-impacted Reclaiming your life after a federal case.
A judge handed down 48 months. Google handed down a life sentence. Someone who had paid their debt in full was still being introduced, by a search engine, as the worst day of their life. This is the work we are proudest of.
9 to 0
Negative results on page one
6 months
To a clean first page
Page one
Owned by accurate content
Count of negative results appearing on the first page of Google for the client's name, at engagement start and after six months. The zero bar is drawn at a minimum width so it stays visible.
How to read this
Nine of the ten things a stranger saw were about the case. Six months later, none of them were. Aggregators came down where they were eligible; real journalism was outranked rather than touched.
The problem
The sentence ended. The search results did not. Nine negative results held page one for their name, so every employer, landlord, and new acquaintance met the case before they met the person.
What we did
We removed what was eligible, which meant the aggregators republishing the filings. We never asked a news outlet to unpublish a true story, and we never faked anything. For the rest, we built accurate current material and made it rank.
Where it landed
Nine to zero in six months, with page one owned by accurate content about who they are now. The record still exists exactly where it always did. It is simply no longer the introduction, and it is no longer what a stranger meets first.
You already served the sentence. We work on the part that did not end.
How we measured it. Aggregators removed where eligible; real news outranked, never faked or removed. Details under NDA.
Every case study we publish is anonymized, and every figure on this page came out of the client's own account or a dated live check. We do not publish a number we cannot show you the source of.
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