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Google Places - Address Changing and its effect

by ferriswannabe
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I wondering what experiences any of you have had when having to change the address on a business listing. I have an "A" spot that will eventually have to have an address changed and I'm worried about its effect in rankings.

The address change is still local in within 10-15 miles of original location.

Now all directory listings and everything is built online will not match anymore.

I figure whatever credit Google gave for those citations it will keep right? I'll generate new listings through UBL and on my own and so on.

What your experience with this?
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  • Profile picture of the author digitalrev2k
    well its depend, sometimes google match the business by address sometimes by phone number. from my experience , i can say it wont effect that much .

    to be in the safe side . change your business address in the local directories as well .
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    • Profile picture of the author David
      Originally Posted by digitalrev2k View Post

      well its depend, sometimes google match the business by address sometimes by phone number. from my experience , i can say it wont effect that much .

      to be in the safe side . change your business address in the local directories as well .
      Yea no kidding!!! if you change an address... now the algo scrutinizes you further, I've had more than one address change result in Google finding old, out of date citations. Those can take weeks to get G to straighten out, update your old citations FIRST
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      • Profile picture of the author jr1228
        A bit of a strange address question.

        Unclaimed Google Places listing: address listed in an awkward order -- suite # first, then street address

        Linked (and unclaimed) citations: No suite number at all

        Ideally, I'd like to make all citations include the suite number, and I'd like the GP listing to have the suite number second.

        However... I don't want to mess anything up with GP and citations. The linked citations have reviews, so I want to keep them.

        Thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author Rob Richards
    Changing the business address on the GP listing will definitely make the current citations null and void. Goo requires that ALL info be the same across the board.

    Having said that, as mentioned earlier, I'd go back into all the citations you created and edit the address on them BEFORE making the GP change.

    It might take Goo a while to catch up to the changes you made, so be prepared to drop down/off the GP results.


    Originally Posted by ferriswannabe View Post

    I wondering what experiences any of you have had when having to change the address on a business listing. I have an "A" spot that will eventually have to have an address changed and I'm worried about its effect in rankings.

    The address change is still local in within 10-15 miles of original location.

    Now all directory listings and everything is built online will not match anymore.

    I figure whatever credit Google gave for those citations it will keep right? I'll generate new listings through UBL and on my own and so on.

    What your experience with this?
    Whatever you do, do ensure real GP results, everything (as in business name, address, phone, website address, etc) need to match exactly in order to help with the GP results. Keep that in mind and you'll be ok.

    Originally Posted by jr1228 View Post

    A bit of a strange address question.

    Unclaimed Google Places listing: address listed in an awkward order -- suite # first, then street address

    Linked (and unclaimed) citations: No suite number at all

    Ideally, I'd like to make all citations include the suite number, and I'd like the GP listing to have the suite number second.

    However... I don't want to mess anything up with GP and citations. The linked citations have reviews, so I want to keep them.

    Thoughts?
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    • Profile picture of the author jr1228
      Originally Posted by Rob Richards View Post

      Whatever you do, do ensure real GP results, everything (as in business name, address, phone, website address, etc) need to match exactly in order to help with the GP results. Keep that in mind and you'll be ok.
      Thanks, Rob. I think I may just leave the citations without suite number as is for now and add suite number in the order it is on the GP listing for additional citations. I just don't want to take any chances -- I don't want Google to think the address has changed even though it's really just the order.
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