Closed Address Google Local

[SEOSponge]

While there are some older conversations pertaining to Google Local/Plus, I am not sure if issue is a bit different.

The company I work for at one time had two locations.

Both are brick & mortar, physical locations.  The factory closed several years ago.

To my surprise, the old location is coming up in a few Google searches as a Google Plus page (actually just located it toward the end of last week.) It is currently unclaimed.

There are a handful of citations out on the web as well.

To remove the factory listing (the one we don't want, which I am pretty sure is confusing Google), what is the best approach?

• Remove/update citations for the old listing?

• And then claim it and suspend it using our Google Places account?

It took a while to claim the listing we actually want and I just want to be sure we handle removing the old one correctly.

Any insight or advice is appreciated!

[MiriamEllis]

Hi SEOSponge,

Totally agree, the process for this is confusing, and Google has change its 'mind' several times in just the last few months. Right now, the approved procedure for a business that moves is simply to edit the existent listing to reflect the new data. Read this:

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/02/20/google-local-moving-locations-new-procedure/

And, in a situation like yours, Google And Your Business Forum Top Contributor Mike Blumenthal recommends:

1)You need to mark the other locations as closed and reference the new G+Local page and new address in the comment field
2)You need to change the bad data at the primary list providers
3)You need to change the data every place else that you can find it.
4)Be sure that there no (none, zero, zip) references to the old addresses on the website

You'll see that advice in the comments of the post I've linked to. Think this is the right way for you to go. Hope this helps!

[SEOSponge]

Hi Miriam,

I appreciate the response and will read through the suggested article.  Thanks for listing out the steps as well.

Jon