A DMCA notice is only as strong as what is attached to it
Most DMCA takedown requests are a URL and a sentence, and most of them are never answered. Serpward finds the pages in the search results, records each one as it appeared — screenshot, matching passages, query, market, time — and files the DMCA notice with that record attached.
Why DMCA requests fail quietly
The person processing a DMCA notice did not write it, does not know your brand, and is working through a queue. To act, they have to open the page, work out which part of it is yours, confirm it is still there, and satisfy themselves the complaint is not mistaken. A notice that leaves that work to them competes against notices that do not — and loses, not on merit, but on cost. Nothing is returned, nothing is explained, and the page stays where it was.
A DMCA takedown service that only files forms does not change that. What changes it is the record: the page captured before anyone was told about it, the passages quoted so they can be compared, the query and market so the result can be reproduced, the time so the capture is demonstrably older than any edit — and both versions of a page that shows the crawler one thing and the visitor another.
Four steps, repeated on a schedule
You say what to protect, and where
The searches people use to find you, and the markets that matter: country, language, and whether the search happens on a phone or a desktop. You also say what is yours — your domains and your licensed partners. Those are never reported.
The results are collected again and again
Each search is re-run on its own schedule. A single snapshot tells you little: pages appear, drop and come back under a new address, and that movement is the thing worth watching.
Every page is recorded before anything is sent
The page is opened and captured: a screenshot as it appeared, the passages that match your material, and a check for content shown to the search engine but withheld from the visitor. This happens first, because a page removed later cannot be captured afterwards.
The notice goes out, and the position is checked again
A takedown notice is filed with the exact locations and links to the captured evidence, submitted through a real browser. Filing is not the outcome; removal is, so the search keeps running.
A notice without evidence is a notice that gets refused
Most takedown attempts fail quietly: a form is filled in, a URL is pasted, nothing is attached. The person reading it cannot see what was on the page, cannot tell which part of it is yours, and has no way to confirm the page is still there. A claim that takes work to verify is the one that gets refused.
Every notice filed here carries the captured result, the passages that match your material, and the time both were recorded.
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Found per market, filed per page
The pages worth filing against are the ones that rank on your name where your customers search: per country, per language, on phones and desktops. Each combination is watched separately, so a page ranking in only one of them is still found — and filed.
Country
The results in Germany are not the results in Kazakhstan. Each country is watched on its own.
Language
The same country returns different pages in different languages.
Device
A page that ranks on a phone may be absent on a desktop. Both are checked.
Over time
Positions are kept, not just noted: when a page appeared, how long it held, whether it came back.
You need this if any of the following is true
Your DMCA notices go unanswered
No refusal, no reply — the page simply stays. That is the usual outcome of a notice without evidence.
You do not know which pages to file against
Copies that do not rank cost nothing. The ones ranking on your name do, and those are the ones found here.
A page you reported showed the reviewer nothing
It showed the crawler your material and the visitor something else; the notice was closed as mistaken.
Pages come back after removal
The search keeps running, so a page that returns under a new address is found and filed again.
You have no legal department
Nobody whose job is to file, follow up, and check whether the page came back.
The number comes after the first search, not before it
There is no self-serve plan. What the work costs depends on how many queries and markets need watching and how much is already out there — and neither of us knows that until we look. The first search costs you nothing.
Is this a DMCA takedown service in the usual sense?
Partly. The usual service takes a list of URLs and files notices. Serpward finds the pages itself — in the search results for your brand and queries — records each with evidence, and files the notice with that record attached. Pages that are not ranking on your queries are not seen here.
Does DMCA apply outside the United States?
DMCA is United States law. Hosts and platforms elsewhere have their own notice-and-takedown procedures, and Google accepts copyright notices regardless of where the complainant is. Serpward files whichever notice the page calls for; DMCA is one of them.
Do you guarantee removal or a timeline?
No. Removal is the host’s decision, and how quickly they act is theirs too. What can be said is that a notice with the capture, the matching passages and the time attached is the kind that gets read and answered.
Do you provide legal advice?
No. Serpward records what ranks and files notices with the record attached. Questions about your rights in a specific case are for your counsel.
What do you need from us?
The queries people use to find you, the markets that matter, and a list of your own domains and licensed partners. No access to your systems — everything is done from the outside.
Start with a look at your own results
Tell us the brand and the markets that matter. We run the search and send you the list of what is ranking, before anything is agreed.