# Remove a Blogspot Post About Me: Blogger and WordPress.com How to remove a Blogspot or WordPress.com post about you: each service's report forms, what they refuse, and when the route is the author or a court. --- To remove a Blogspot post about you, report the post's exact address to Blogger if it breaks Blogger's content policy (harassment, private information, impersonation), and use Google's separate legal form if you are relying on a court order or on local law such as defamation. A WordPress.com post follows the same logic through a different door: its report form at wordpress.com/abuse covers abuse, privacy, legal and other categories, and the service defers to a court when it cannot decide whether something is defamatory. A post usually comes down in one of four ways: the service finds a policy breach, the author deletes it, a court orders it removed, or it stays up and you work on how it appears in search. This guide takes the two services one at a time and shows what each report asks for and what each refuses. It does not cover blogs on a server the author rents or owns, which is a web host question, or other hosted writing platforms, whose policies differ. Every point below is stated as the policy reads in the source named, as of the source read, so reread the page before you file.
The short version
Twoseparate reports on Google's side: a policy report does not count as a legal notice
A courtis who WordPress.com defers to when it cannot decide if something is defamatory
Whole blogis all Blogger deletes when an author cannot sign in, never a single post

Google's Legal Help reporting form, WordPress.com's report-blogs guide and Blogger's help page on deleting a blog without account access, as read for this guide.

## Check which service hosts the post before you file anything Each service accepts reports only about sites it hosts, so confirm the host first. A blogspot.com address is on Blogger and a wordpress.com address is on WordPress.com. A custom domain proves nothing either way: it can point at Blogger, at WordPress.com, or at a server the author runs. WordPress.com says this plainly on its reporting page. It asks you to confirm that Automattic hosts the site before you report it, and it notes that sites marked "Powered by WordPress.org" use the open-source software on someone else's server. For those, it tells you to contact the web host instead. If the address is a custom domain, check the page footer for a service name, then use a domain lookup tool to see where the site points. A server rented from an ordinary hosting company means self-hosted territory, and this guide stops applying. ### What to collect first Both services act on a specific address. Collect the full address of the post itself, not the blog's home page; a dated screenshot; the exact sentence or image at issue, with one line on the rule or law it breaks; and proof of who you are if the report concerns your own information or an impersonator. A report about one address, one sentence and one rule is the easiest to decide. ## Blogger removes content that breaks its content policy, not content that is merely false Blogger's own report route covers community violations, and it works on a flag-and-review model. Blogger says flagged content is not removed automatically: human reviewers verify whether it breaks the Community Guidelines. The author is not told who made the report. Blogger's content policy prohibits, among other things, harassment, bullying and threats, and it names exposing someone's private information in ways that could enable threats. It also bars storing or distributing someone's personal or confidential information without authorization, with examples such as Social Security numbers, bank and credit card numbers, signature images and personal health documents. The policy adds that enforcement generally does not apply when the information is already widely available elsewhere online or in public records. That last sentence decides many cases. A post that repeats a public record is unlikely to be treated as private information, however unwelcome. A post that publishes your home address next to a call to confront you is a different file. ### What the policy page does not say The content policy page we read does not list defamation as a category. A claim that a post is untrue or unfair, with nothing more, is not what the community report is built to decide. ### Impersonation and fake blogs If the post sits on a blog pretending to be you, Google's reporting form lists harassment and impersonation among its policy reasons and gives that very example. It is a stronger footing than a complaint about what the author wrote, because it needs no ruling on truth. ## A legal removal request for a Blogger post goes through a separate Google form Defamation, a court order and local-law claims go through Google's Legal Help reporting form, not through the Blogger community report. Blogger's report page itself says that illegal content should be reported through a separate Google legal troubleshooter instead of its form. The Legal Help form works as a short decision tree. You choose a Google product, and the list includes Blogger/Blogspot. You then choose whether the matter is legal or policy, and then a specific reason. The legal reasons Google lists for Blogger include court order (content a court decision has determined is unlawful), defamation (typically a false statement damaging reputation), and copyright and trademark. Its privacy heading names privacy laws, but we saw no standalone privacy reason in Blogger's list. The policy reasons include private information, doxxing, harassment and impersonation. Two rules on that page shape how you file. Legal and policy are filed separately: Google states that a policy report does not serve as a legal notice, so a harassment report plus a defamation claim needs two reports. And legal removals are usually local: content that violates a local law is typically removed or restricted only where it is treated as illegal, while content that violates Google's policies is typically removed worldwide. Google's overview page also says an effective request depends on identifying the correct legal basis. It does not list the documents Google needs and does not promise removal. Give the address, the quoted statement, the reason it is false or unlawful, and any court order. ### What happens to your request after you file Google says it shares certain legal removal notices with Lumen, a research project run from Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, and that it never shares the contact information fields you fill in. For defamation requests, Google says the requester's name is generally withheld, with exceptions possible in high public-interest cases. ### If Google declines Google's legal help center says appeals are open only to some users, including people who reported allegedly illegal content and saw no action. It says appeals generally must be filed within six months of the decision, that copyright and trademark appeals are an exception, and that local law variations may apply. Read the outcome notice for the appeal route before you write a second request. ## WordPress.com accepts reports in six families, and the category you pick sets the outcome WordPress.com's reporting page lets you use the three dots next to the Follow link on a site and choose "Report this content", or use the form at wordpress.com/abuse without an account. The form opens with a choice of report type: - **Abuse:** abusive content, harassment and defamation. - **Privacy:** concerns about your own private information. - **Person at risk:** a person at imminent risk of death or severe physical harm. - **Regulated material:** prohibited or highly regulated items, gambling and explicit material. - **Technological harm:** malware, spyware, phishing, spam and machine-generated content. - **Legal:** copyright and trademark, illegal content in the EU, and non-consensual intimate imagery under the Take It Down Act. We could read only the first screen of the form, not the fields that follow, so this guide does not list what each category asks you to type. WordPress.com's guidance is to choose the header closest to your problem, then the more specific option. ### Which category fits which problem A post that publishes your phone number or home address belongs under Privacy, since the user guidelines prohibit sharing someone's personal information without consent. A post that threatens you belongs under Abuse, and the guidelines separately prohibit direct and realistic threats of violence. Copied photos or text go through the formal copyright process on Automattic's DMCA notice page. Intimate images shared without consent have their own Legal form. The form also has an "Illegal Content Notice in the EU" category. The page we read does not describe how those notices are processed. ### What WordPress.com says it will not do The reporting page is candid about limits. Not every report gets a reply, though each is read by a person. WordPress.com will not remove a site merely because it is offensive, and it says the right response to bad or offensive ideas is to speak out against them, not to censor them. It suggests that, if you disagree with a site, you create a site of your own to speak your mind. When it cannot decide a matter, such as whether something is defamatory, it defers to a court. Its terms give Automattic the right, without the obligation, to remove content that in its reasonable opinion breaks the agreement. ## WordPress.com handles defamation by pointing to a court and to US law WordPress.com's defamation guide, last reviewed on July 7, 2025, describes the service as a US-based internet service provider. It says section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act shields providers from liability for user-posted content, including allegedly defamatory material. It adds that it cannot feasibly police the hundreds of thousands of posts published each day, and it sends complainants to its complaints procedure. Section 230(c)(1) says a provider of an interactive computer service is not to be treated as the publisher or speaker of information supplied by another content provider, and section 230(e) leaves federal criminal law and intellectual property outside that protection. That is why, for a US-hosted service, the author is generally the party a defamation claim targets, not the platform. A lawyer in your country can confirm how that applies to you. ### What the user guidelines add The guidelines say a complaint may lead the service to contact the site owner, and that responses depend on the information available and the type of violation. Nothing on the pages we read describes an appeal or counter-notice process for ordinary reports. Formal legal process, such as a court order, goes to a dedicated address named on the reporting page; copy it from the live page. ### Your own information is handled more privately than you might expect WordPress.com says your personal information is not shared with the reported person, except if you submit a valid DMCA notice, if your personally identifiable information (according to its policies) is published, or if valid legal process requires it. A copyright notice is therefore the route that can expose you to the author. ## Blogger and WordPress.com compared on the same questions This table sets out what each source says, so you can pick the route before you spend time on a form.
QuestionBlogger (Google)WordPress.comNote
Policy reportURL form, human review, reporter not named to authorIn-site report or wordpress.com/abuse, human reviewNo promise of a reply on WordPress.com
DefamationGoogle legal form, reason "defamation"Abuse category, but defers to a court if undecidedNeither treats "false" alone as policy
Personal informationPolicy: personal and confidential informationPrivacy category, guidelines on private informationBlogger excludes widely available or public-record data
Court orderCourt order reason on the legal formLegal process to the address on its report pageShow an order that names the content
Reach of removalLocal-law removals usually limited to a countryNot stated on the pages readCheck scope before you rely on it
AppealSome reporters can appeal an illegal-content decision, generally within six monthsNo appeal process describedRules differ by country
### A worked scenario An invented example, with generic parties. A landlord finds a post on a free blogspot.com blog that names her, says she "steals deposits", and prints her home address. Assumptions: the address is a home address that appears nowhere else online, the claim is untrue, and the author is anonymous. The address is a private information problem, so it goes first on the policy route. The deposit claim is a defamation allegation, so it goes on Google's separate legal form as a different report. If the author turns out to be a former tenant she can identify, a direct message may beat both forms. On WordPress.com the address would go through the Privacy category, and the deposit claim would fall to the author or a court. ## The author is often the fastest route, and you can reach them without making it worse The author can delete a post in minutes, and both services leave that choice with the author. Blogger says only a blog's administrator can delete the blog, and a permanent deletion removes all its posts and pages. WordPress.com's terms make the site owner "fully responsible" for the content on the site. Write once, in plain language, quote the exact sentence, and say what you want: delete the post, correct a stated fact, or remove one detail. Do not threaten, and do not post publicly about the author: a post about a removal attempt adds a second page that can rank beside the first. ### When the author is the only person who can sign in Blogger has a form for deleting a blog when its author cannot access the account. Blogger says it will delete the blog if it can verify that the requester is the sole author and there are no other recent contributions. It may keep a blog up where public access serves the public interest, such as newsworthy content, and may decline if it cannot verify authorship, including for anonymous or pseudonymous blogs. It deletes a whole blog only, never individual posts, and the route is for the blog's own author, not a third party. ### Unmasking an anonymous author If the author is anonymous and the post is seriously unlawful, a court process can sometimes require disclosure of who is behind it. That is a lawyer's decision and the rules differ by country, so this guide does not describe a procedure. ## A court order is the route that does not depend on a policy reading When a court has decided that a post is unlawful and has ordered its removal, both services have a place for it. Google's legal form lists a court order as a reason and describes it as content a court has found unlawful. WordPress.com's reporting page directs legal process to its dedicated address. The two companies read the order, not the argument, so an order that names the exact address is the strongest case. Neither page we read sets out a rule for an order issued by a foreign court. Whether an order from your country is acted on is a question for your lawyer, who can also say whether a demand letter to the author costs less than a filing. ### Limits worth knowing before you spend money - The order should name the content or the address, because a general order about the author's conduct may not let a service act on one post. - Blogger's content policy says appeals may not be available in all circumstances, such as certain court-ordered removals. That page speaks of appeals by content owners, so an author may have less recourse than you expect. - Defamation rules and time limits differ by country, and a long wait can end the claim. ## When the post stays up, ask for the search result to change Google's personal-information help says removal from Search does not delete the content, which "might still be on the internet", and that to take content down entirely you must contact the site owner. That page also describes three paths relevant to a blog post. - **Personal information.** Google lists contact details, government ID numbers, bank and card numbers, signatures, private records and login credentials, and points to its "Results about you" tool for addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. - **Doxxing.** Google can remove content that shares your personal information to harm you, when the page includes threats or calls for harm, or when it gathers a significant amount of personal information with no legitimate purpose. - **Legal removal.** Content outside Google's policies can still be removable under local law through the Legal Help Center. A removal can be full, so the page no longer appears in Search at all, or partial, so it does not appear for searches that include your name. Google reviews only the URLs you list. ### After the author deletes the post Google says a removed page will eventually drop from Search through its regular updating, and an outdated content refresh tool exists to request a faster update. Use it after a deletion, not before. ### When neither route removes it If the post is accurate, lawful and of public interest, no form will take it down, and a legal threat can make it more visible. The honest options are a correction request to the author, a reply on a page you control, and the slower work of building accurate pages that earn better positions, which is what our suppression service does. It is not removal. ## A realistic sequence from first report to a search update The order puts the cheapest and least visible steps first. Times are what we usually see in our files, not promises, and neither service gives a response time on the pages we read.
A sequence for a hosted blog post
  1. Confirm the host and capture the postOn day one, confirm the service, save the address, take a dated screenshot and note the sentence at issue.
  2. Choose policy or legalDecide whether a written rule fits or the claim is legal. File each as its own report.
  3. File the policy reportOn Blogger, use the URL form. On WordPress.com, use the in-site report or the abuse form with the right category. A decision usually takes days to a couple of weeks, and WordPress.com does not promise a reply.
  4. Contact the author onceIn the same week, send one calm message with the sentence and the request.
  5. File the legal request if the policy route failsOn Blogger, use Google's Legal Help form with the right legal reason. On WordPress.com, the live page names the legal-process address. This stage usually takes weeks.
  6. Go to a court only if the claim justifies itAsk a lawyer about jurisdiction, time limit and cost. A granted order is what you send to the service.
  7. Update searchWhen the post is gone, use the outdated content refresh tool. When it stays up and fits the personal information or doxxing rules, file the search request.
## Your next step is a single report with the right category and the exact address Start with the host check, then file one report that names one address and one rule.
If this is happening to you now

If a post on a hosted blog names you and the first report did not work, we can review the case and tell you which route fits, in confidence. Start with a private audit.

Reputation Partners works on removal where a rule or a law supports it. The decision sits with the service, the author or a court. ## Questions people ask ### Can I remove a Blogspot post without the author knowing? Blogger says the author is not told who made a community report. A legal request is different: Google shares certain legal notices with Lumen, which publishes them, and although it generally withholds a defamation requester's name, assume the author may learn that a request was made. ### Does Blogger take down a post because it is false? Not on a falsity claim alone through the community report. The policy page we read lists harassment and private information, not defamation. Falsity is a legal question for Google's separate legal form, and the outcome depends on local law and on the evidence you give. ### Will WordPress.com delete a post that defames me? WordPress.com says that when it cannot decide whether something is defamatory, it defers to a court, and it relies on US platform immunity for user posts. A court order is the route most likely to lead to removal, and an author who agrees to delete is the other. ### Is a Medium, Substack or Wix blog the same? No. Each hosted writing service has its own rules, forms and limits, and a post on one of them follows that service's policy, not these two. Check the host first, then read that service's own pages before you file anything. ### What if the blog is abandoned and the author cannot be found? Blogger has a form that lets a blog's sole author delete an abandoned blog without account access, but it is not available to third parties. For a post about you, the route is a policy report, a legal request or a court order, then a search request if the page stays up. ### Can I get the result off search while the post stays? Sometimes. Google can remove pages from Search for personal information, doxxing and local-law reasons, in full or only for searches containing your name. The post itself stays on the blog, so people can still reach it through links and other search engines.