Upstream locations to mark a business closed that will cascade to other listings services?

[scottclark]

Working with a multi-location business with hundreds of locations, there is always a certain amount of churn (closures, new locations.)    In some cases, the business owners never claim listings, or claim them in only the major local business listings such as Yelp and Google Places.

Does anyone know of a good post or discussion about how to do a "cascading mark as closed" which will make its way through the LBL ecosystem eventually?   In other words, is there a few upstream places to mark a business closed that will influence the consumers of their data feed?

thanks!

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Scott,

I am not aware of a process for what you describe, unfortunately. Obviously, you would want to make sure the info has been manually corrected at Google+ Local, Axciom, InfoGroup and Localeze, but I'm not sure even these major providers will ensure that a closed business message is replicated across the board. You've asked a really interesting question and maybe others in the community will have new feedback on this. In the meantime, I recommend you read:

http://moz.com/blog/local-search-moving-locations

https://support.google.com/places/answer/154102?hl=en