Find out how to Take away a Completely Closed Google Enterprise Profile Web page from Google Maps for Good

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

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

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

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

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

1. Mark the web page as “completely closed,” utilizing the “counsel an edit” characteristic.

2. Clear up the citations for that location, if it’s your Google web page. By “clear up” I imply both get the listings eliminated altogether, or replace them in order that they use the identical information as a Google web page you’re maintaining round (e.g. for one more location of your enterprise). Even when the GBP web page belongs to a competitor who’s spamming the map, you might be able to get a number of the non-Google listings eliminated – if the competitor even has non-Google listings for that “enterprise” within the first place.  (Lots of Google Maps spam is solely a lone GBP web page, and not using a set of native citations behind it.)

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

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

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

Extra seemingly than not, it will likely be accredited immediately if it’s a web page you personal.  It might nonetheless be accredited straight away even for those who don’t personal the web page; I’ve had that consequence, too.

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

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

Issues, questions, or suggestions?

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

Do you have got a web page that sticks to Google Maps like a foul odor?

Go away a remark!