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How to Remove or Edit Your Listing on Yellow Pages

To remove yourself from Yellow Pages, use the official opt-out page at yellowpages.com support. undefined

Quick facts

  • Help pageyellowpages.com support
  • CostFree
  • VerificationProof you represent the business
  • Account neededOften, to claim the listing
  • Processing timeDays to a few weeks
  • Last reviewedOctober 2026

Step by step

How to remove or update a Yellow Pages listing

  1. Find your listingSearch Yellow Pages for your name, business, or phone number and copy the listing URL.
  2. Claim or edit the listingIf you own the business, use Yellow Pages’s business owner tools to claim the listing and update or hide details.
  3. Request removalUse Yellow Pages’s contact or support page to request removal of closed businesses, personal listings, or home addresses.
  4. Fix the data at the sourceDirectories copy data from aggregators and state filings. Update or suppress your information with major business data providers so it does not return.
  5. Re-checkSearch again after a few weeks and use Google’s Refresh Outdated Content tool for old results.

What Yellow Pages shows about you

  • Business name and owner name
  • Address and phone number
  • Website, hours, and category

After you opt out

  • Confirm the listing is gone or corrected.
  • Switch home-based businesses to a service-area or PO box address.
  • Update the same details on other directories so they stay consistent.
  • Re-check periodically, since directories re-import data.

FAQ

Yellow Pages opt-out FAQ

Usually you can claim and edit it, and many directories remove listings for closed businesses or personal listings. Active businesses are sometimes kept but can be corrected.
Directories often pull addresses from state business filings or data aggregators. Use a registered agent or business address in filings, and update the listing to a service area.
No. Business data is shared among many directories and aggregators, so update each source and re-check periodically.

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