Hybrid to SAB

[luischavez0104]

Hi, our client wants to move the address from a commercial building that has signage, office space, etc and their address showing to their personal home. Not sure if I should just hide the address or update the address and then remove it. Or create a new listing then mark the existing listing as moved.
Any advice would be appreciated. TIA!

 

[ElizabethRule]

I would just hide the address, in order to avoid having to reverify to a new location. As far as I know, Google does not save the address after you remove it, so you won't need to worry about it anymore after you hide it

That said, the profile will continue to rank in the same area as the original address, so if you are good with it continuing to rank where it is now, just hide the address. If you want the business to rank around the area of the new address, then move it and go through verification.

 

[luischavez0104]

I would just hide the address, in order to avoid having to reverify to a new location. As far as I know, Google does not save the address after you remove it, so you won't need to worry about it anymore after you hide it

That said, the profile will continue to rank in the same area as the original address, so if you are good with it continuing to rank where it is now, just hide the address. If you want the business to rank around the area of the new address, then move it and go through verification.

Hey, so with this logic what stops a company from renting out and verifying a commercial space downtown and then hiding the address to move to a residential location?

 

[ElizabethRule]

Nothing I guess. But that strategy would not yield good results, since hiding the address will likely cause rankings to go down.

 

[luischavez0104]

Nothing I guess. But that strategy would not yield good results, since hiding the address will likely cause rankings to go down.

Ok thanks for the insight! If there was a suspension or reverification one day there may be bigger issues down the road. You would think if google suspends a residential address they would know what the address is to match with any documentation. I think the best course of action would be to update the address and then remove the address and make sure the client has the correct documents. And then hope to not be suspended and just do a reverification.

If I did it that way would google still have us ranking at the old location if the new address is hidden or no because I gave google the new address and hid it?