{"id":9212,"date":"2025-07-03T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=11089"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:09:00","slug":"audit-how-you-appear-in-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/audit-how-you-appear-in-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Name on Google: What shows up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has created a free service that lets you see what of your personal and professional information has been published on the Web. Once you provide your name, address, phone numbers, and email addresses to Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/results-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Results About You<\/a> website, Google will inform you if that info appears in search results. (Don\u2019t worry, you\u2019re not telling Google anything it doesn\u2019t already know.) It may take a few days or weeks for the initial results to come back, and Google will keep adding more results over time. You can review each page with your information and, if it\u2019s data you would prefer to keep private and it meets Google\u2019s policy requirements, request its removal from the search results. This only <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/answer\/12719076?visit_id=638869846338697754-3308376861&amp;p=remove_personal_contact_info&amp;rd=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removes your data from Google\u2019s search results<\/a>; to remove it from the Web entirely, you\u2019ll need to contact the website hosting the information.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11079\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/audit-how-you-appear-in-google-search-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by Google)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has created a free service that lets you see what of your personal and professional information has been published on the Web. Once you provide your name, address, phone numbers, and email addresses to Google\u2019s Results About You website, Google will inform you if that info appears in search results. (Don\u2019t worry, you\u2019re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,112,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9223,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions\/9223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}