Write down every URL before you file anything
Search your name in quotes, then your name plus your city, then your name plus each relative the listing named, and copy the exact URL of every page that comes back, not the site's homepage. One profile usually produces several: the main page, a print or share view, and separate pages for relatives and past addresses. Every one of those is its own removal.
Screenshot each page while you're on it. Copy the Google results page URL you found it on, plus the exact words you typed. Google asks for all three of those on the form, and going back to rebuild them a week later is where people quit, so put them in one document now and both requests below take minutes instead of an evening.
Take it down at the source before you ask Google to hide it
Google removal hides a link. The opt-out on the site itself is the only step that takes the address off the page. Google says as much in its removal policy: approved or denied, the information still exists on the source web page. Find the site's opt-out or Do Not Sell link, usually in the footer, and file that first.
Live in California? One request at privacy.ca.gov/drop reaches every registered data broker at once. Brokers had to begin processing DROP requests on August 1, 2026, and to check the platform at least once every 45 days after that, while verification runs through the California Identity Gateway, where you choose what information to provide.
If the site wants money to take your listing down, don't pay it. Use Google's removal form and pick "Content is on a site with exploitative removal practices" instead of the personal-information branch. Google states two requirements: the website isn't a business review site, and its removal practices necessitate payment to get the content removed. Both have to hold.
Turn on Google's monitor and feed it every version of your name
Go to myactivity.google.com/results-about-you and sign in. Signed out, it's a wall with a "Sign in to get started" button, and there is no anonymous version of this tool. Choose "Get started", or "Settings" if you've been here before, then enter your name and the information you want watched.
Enter the address itself. Then add every name you have ever used at it: maiden name, nickname, middle initial forms. Google's help page lists the fields it accepts, including nickname, maiden name, multiple phone numbers, multiple home addresses and multiple email addresses. The matcher keys off name plus information, so a variant you skip is a result you never see. Enter them all.
Set your notifications, then wait. Google says matches appear within a few hours and land in the "To review" tab. Two limits before you lean on this. Google states the feature is rolling out to users over 18 in certain markets and doesn't publish the market list, and an empty "To review" tab looks identical to being clean.
File the removals from the To review tab
Open "To review", click a result to expand it, and choose "Request to remove". Within a few hours Google emails to confirm the request was submitted. The request is already in review whether or not you open that email. The status update lands at the same address, so check your spam folder if nothing has arrived.
Track everything under "Removal requests", where each one carries one of four labels: In progress, Approved, Denied, or Undone. Nothing commits Google to a review turnaround. You get hours on the match notification and hours on the confirmation email, and after that you only get a note that there may be a delay between approval and the result leaving search.
Leave "Undo" alone. Google says undoing a request doesn't guarantee the page comes back, and if anybody else's removal request on that same URL was approved, Google won't be able to show it again even if you undo yours. The switch looks reversible, but it isn't.
File the manual form for every URL the monitor misses
The monitor only surfaces pages it can match to a name string, so most of the URLs you collected in step one will never show up in "To review". Those go through Google's removal request form. Three pages. Still no ID.
Page one: choose "Content contains your personal information" and give your country of residence, both on the same page. Page two, under "Select the personal information you would like removed", pick "Address, phone number, and/or e-mail address". Then paste your URLs, one per line, up to 1,000 lines. Google reviews only the specific pages you list, so the profile, the print view and each relatives page all get their own line.
One question stops people: "Is there malicious or threatening intent expressed directly in the content on the URL or domain?" For an ordinary people-search listing, the answer is No, and No does not disqualify you. Threat language belongs to the separate doxxing route, not to plain contact-information removal. A guide that reads that question as a requirement is wrong, and following it costs you a request you were entitled to file.
Upload your screenshots, then paste the Google results page URLs and the exact search terms that produced them. Skipping that last part is the most common reason a request stalls. Give your real name and email at the end. You can file anonymously, but then you never find out whether it was approved, denied or lost.
Set a date to check, and expect to refile
Put a date in your calendar two weeks out and run the exact same searches again. A delisting is bound to one URL, so the page you removed stays removed, but a site that spins up a new URL for the same profile has produced a new result, and it needs a new request. The monitor notifies you. It removes nothing on its own.
Say the source site actually deleted the page and it still comes up in Google Search results. Don't file a removal request. Sign in to the Refresh Outdated Content tool and submit the URL on the "Page" tab. A page that is still live is not a case for this tool, even if the site edited your address out of it.
A denial usually isn't arguable. Google declines results from educational or government institutions and from newspapers, along with anything it judges important or newsworthy. An address in a county assessor file, a voter roll, a court docket or a local news story is the ordinary case, not the edge case, and the fix there is the record custodian, not Google.
When someone is sharing your address to target you
If the exposure is part of threats or repeated harassment, keep the relevant URLs, account names, dates, and context in a private record. Don't repost the address while asking for help. If you believe you're in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
Removing a search result and removing the page that displays the address are separate jobs. Personal information removal is the specialist route for exposed details. An abusive post may also need URL-specific work. If it's an ongoing pattern, ask about counter-harassment support for creators.