What You Should Do if You Have a Duplicate

Places Listing

What You Should Do if You Have a Duplicate Places Listing

• Multiple Google Places listings for the same business location in Google Maps search results. If this applies to you, follow a few steps to fix the situation.

1. Make sure that you have already claimed a valid business location listing from Google Places.

2. If you have, check to make sure that you do not have more than one active listing for that business in your Google Places account;

3. Remove the duplicate listing(s) using the method described below.

4. Lastly, go to the Places page of every duplicate listing, click on the problem reporting link, and report the duplicate pages. Google will investigate the problem and make any necessary corrections.

What You Should Do if You Have a Duplicate Places Listing

• Multiple listings for the same business location in a Google Places account. This situation can be simply remedied :

- by going to your Google Places account page and choosing the listing you want to keep ,

- making sure the status of your chosen listing is set to “active,”

- and then delete the duplicate listings using the “remove this listing” option.

Keep in mind that it may take weeks for these changes

to be reflected in Google search results.

What You Should Do if You Have a Duplicate Places Listing

• Multiple Google Places accounts for the same business location. Choose the listing you prefer to keep, after viewing all of the listings to determine which is most complete. Then delete all duplicate listings from all other accounts using the method outlined above.

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