How to Remove a Duplicate Google Business Listing?

Everyone must have come across a duplicate Google My Business and you are trying hard to get that removed. Removing the duplicate Google My Business listings is never something difficult to do. You just need to follow some steps and ensure that you are receiving positive results with getting the job done.

Here are some of the steps that you need to follow in order to remove your duplicate Google My Business listings.

If the duplicate Google My Business has the same name and a different address

If you notice that one of the duplicate Google My Business listings have a different address, you will need to get in touch with Google and inform. This often happens when you move your business to a new physical location. You can contact Google directly via 1-844-491-9665 or tweet them. In case if your Google My Business is showing an address that never existed, you should locate you’re listing on Google Maps and then select “Suggest and Edit”. Then you can pick the option “permanent closed”. For the description, you can say that the place never existed.

If the duplicate listings are available for different business areas

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In here, you need to check and see if both the listings are verified. If so, you must make sure that you are the owner of both listings. If not, you should contact Google via the above-mentioned methods. In case if you are the owner, you will be able to remove one with ease. But if you notice that only one listing is verified, you should locate an unverified listing on Google Maps, suggest an edit and market it as Permanently Closed. You can enter private as the reason.

Removing duplication locations

You should log into the Google My Business account and then visit the account summary. In there, you can find an option called “duplicate locations”. You can click on this and remove the location that you don’t want to keep.

Solving the duplicate Google My Business listings for practitioners or professionals

If you are a practitioner or a professional such as a realtor, dentist, lawyer or doctor, you should follow these steps when dealing with the duplicate Google My Business listings. If there are multiple professionals, who work from the same business location, Google My Business will provide each and every one of them to create their own businesses. If the practitioner is leaving to a new office, you should inform the change. This is where you must locate the listing on Google Maps, pick “Suggest an Edit” and then select Permanently Closed on the new listing. You can pick the reason as never existed.