Moving a business

[keyserholiday]

Another SEO and I have bumping heads on moving a business. He told me @JoyHawkins told him they when a business moves from a SAB to physical location they need to contact support to have them update the address in the backend. I never saw this being needed to be done. I was told this only needed to be done when a SAB moved to another SAB, you need to do this. This same person claims you can’t move a SAB and need to create a new one. Did something change?

 

[JoyHawkins]

I consulted with Google on this before publishing my advice on how to move a service area business. Currently, the advice is always to create a new listing and then contact Google to mark the old one as moved. If you try to update the current one, it can screw up and continue to rank in the old location.

 

[JS Girard]

Another SEO and I have bumping heads on moving a business. He told me @JoyHawkins told him they when a business moves from a SAB to physical location they need to contact support to have them update the address in the backend. I never saw this being needed to be done. I was told this only needed to be done when a SAB moved to another SAB, you need to do this. This same person claims you can’t move a SAB and need to create a new one. Did something change?

That's really funny since the last few times I heard the "update in the backend" stuff bandied about for SAB address changes, it was being attributed to or stated by yourself.

 

[keyserholiday]

That's really funny since the last few times I heard the "update in the backend" stuff bandied about for SAB address changes, it was being attributed to or stated by yourself.

I am trying to see if anything has changed.