How one can Take away a Completely Closed Google Enterprise Profile Web page from Google Maps for Good

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c6f0 A longstanding c6f0 gripe c6f0 of enterprise homeowners, native c6f0 SEOs, and others is that c6f0 Google Enterprise Profile (AKA GMB) c6f0 pages linger round on the c6f0 map even after they’re marked c6f0 as “completely closed.”  Most frequently c6f0 it’ll be a web page c6f0 you as soon as created c6f0 or claimed, or it might c6f0 be a c6f0 competitor’s spam web page c6f0 or a web page c6f0 that’s inflicting another drawback.  In c6f0 any occasion, you need the c6f0 web page utterly gone from c6f0 Google Maps, relatively than in c6f0 “completely closed” purgatory.

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c6f0 Google’s acknowledged c6f0 coverage c6f0 on eradicating GBP/GMB pages c6f0 has been {that a} enterprise c6f0 proprietor must c6f0 relinquish management c6f0 of a web page, c6f0 mark it as completely closed, c6f0 after which Google could or c6f0 could not select to take c6f0 away it.  Google could preserve c6f0 it round long-term if it c6f0 sees some profit to protecting c6f0 the itemizing accessible on Maps.  c6f0 Google’s MO is to hoard c6f0 information, regardless of the age c6f0 or usefulness.

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c6f0 Actually?  There’s NO method simply c6f0 to get a web page c6f0 faraway from Google Maps, c6f0 as soon as and for c6f0 all c6f0 ?  Seems there may be, c6f0 and it doesn’t contain contacting c6f0 assist.  It entails a collection c6f0 of steps which have labored c6f0 for me (for my purchasers) c6f0 on just a few events.  c6f0 After all, your mileage could c6f0 range, however give it a c6f0 attempt.

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c6f0 For the sake of simplicity, c6f0 I’ll assume it’s certainly one c6f0 of your pages that you c6f0 really want eliminated, however this c6f0 c6f0 also can work c6f0 for those who’ve been c6f0 in a position to get c6f0 a competitor’s spammy web page c6f0 to “completely closed” standing.

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c6f0 Listed below are the steps c6f0 to take away a Google c6f0 Enterprise Profile / Google My c6f0 Enterprise web page from the c6f0 principle search outcomes and Google c6f0 Maps outcomes utterly:

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1. c6f0 Mark the web page c6f0 as “completely closed,” c6f0 utilizing the “recommend an c6f0 edit” function.

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2. c6f0 Clear up c6f0 the c6f0 citations c6f0 for that location, if c6f0 it’s your Google web page. c6f0 By “clear up” I c6f0 imply both get the listings c6f0 eliminated altogether, or replace them c6f0 in order that they use c6f0 the identical information as a c6f0 Google web page you’re protecting c6f0 round (e.g. for one more c6f0 location of your corporation). Even c6f0 when the GBP web page c6f0 belongs to a competitor who’s c6f0 spamming the map, you could c6f0 possibly get a few of c6f0 the non-Google listings eliminated – c6f0 if the competitor even c6f0 has c6f0 non-Google listings for that c6f0 “enterprise” within the first place.  c6f0 (A variety of Google Maps c6f0 spam is solely a lone c6f0 GBP web page, with out c6f0 a set of native citations c6f0 behind it.)

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3. c6f0 Take away out of c6f0 your web site as many c6f0 mentions of that location, workplace, c6f0 or practitioner as you possibly c6f0 can. c6f0 Nothing in your website ought c6f0 to inform Google that somebody’s c6f0 doing enterprise on the location c6f0 the place you’re making an c6f0 attempt to get the web c6f0 page faraway from Google Maps. c6f0 Generally, a battle between what’s c6f0 in your website and what’s c6f0 in your GBP web page c6f0 c6f0 takes a chip out of c6f0 your GBP web page.  c6f0 Make your website again up c6f0 your story.

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4. c6f0 Wait. c6f0 For the way lengthy? c6f0 A few months, or everytime c6f0 you’re at the least principally c6f0 accomplished with steps 2-3.  At c6f0 any time when I’ve been c6f0 in a position to get c6f0 a “completely closed” web page c6f0 eliminated, a whole lot of c6f0 time has handed.  Now, let’s c6f0 say a fireplace has been c6f0 lit below your caboose, and c6f0 also you blaze by way c6f0 of steps 1-3 in (let’s c6f0 say) per week.  Then there’s c6f0 no want to attend just c6f0 for the sake of ready: c6f0 Simply transfer onto step 5, c6f0 with the expectation that Google c6f0 could preserve you ready anyway.  c6f0 However you’ll wait lower than c6f0 you’ll for those who assumed c6f0 “completely closed” would get the c6f0 web page eliminated any time c6f0 quickly, or for those who c6f0 didn’t nudge the method alongside.

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5. c6f0 Pull up the “completely c6f0 closed” web page on Google c6f0 Maps, do a “recommend an c6f0 edit,” and choose “Doesn’t exist c6f0 right here.”

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c6f0 Extra doubtless than not, it c6f0 is going to be accredited c6f0 immediately if it’s a web c6f0 page you personal.  It could c6f0 nonetheless be accredited instantly even c6f0 for those who don’t personal c6f0 the web page; I’ve had c6f0 that outcome, too.

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c6f0 A vestige of the web c6f0 page could proceed to point c6f0 out up in your GBP c6f0 dashboard as “ c6f0 disabled c6f0 ,” in case you ever c6f0 wish to unearth it.

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c6f0 Anyway, that’s all there may c6f0 be to it.  I’m certain c6f0 another person someplace has lined c6f0 this, however I haven’t seen c6f0 it (and I’ve regarded), besides c6f0 in c6f0 this video c6f0 by Zane Clements of c6f0 c6f0 Zanet Design c6f0 .

c6f0 Issues, questions, or suggestions?

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c6f0 How a lot success have c6f0 you ever had in eradicating c6f0 your or others’ “completely closed” c6f0 pages from Google Maps for c6f0 good?

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c6f0 Do you’ve gotten a web c6f0 page that sticks to Google c6f0 Maps like a foul scent?

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c6f0 Depart a remark!

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