How to Change Your Business Address on Google

Google reviews your changes before it updates them on your live profile. That review applies to address edits like any other, per Google's help page on editing a Business Profile.

The same page says that if you move your business to a new address after it was verified, you must verify your business again. Verification is also what Google requires before your business shows on Search, Maps, and other Google services, so treat it as part of the move, not a task for later.

The new address also has to meet Google's guidelines for representing your business. It must be your actual, real-world location. P.O. boxes and mailboxes at remote locations aren't acceptable, and a rented mailing address you don't operate from, which Google calls a virtual office, isn't eligible for a Business Profile. Google ties following these guidelines to keeping your profile from being suspended.

The fix is different for an owner or manager of the profile than for someone outside it.

You manage the profile: Correct it with the steps above. If an old or wrong address keeps coming back, open Edit profile, then Collected info. Google says it may contact you with automated calls, texts, or WhatsApp messages to the verified phone number on your profile, and use the answers to update it. The Collected info screen shows each item with its source and the date it was collected, and you can delete anything wrong. Google notes the feature is only available in select regions, languages, and business categories, and that deleting collected info doesn't change other details already on your profile.

Then make sure your signage, website, and stationery show the new address. Google's guidelines ask you to represent the business the way it is consistently represented and recognized in the real world.

You don't manage the profile: Use Suggest an edit on the listing. That is Google's route for fixing a profile you don't own or manage.

The address text is right but the pin is off: Correct the pin in the Location section of Edit profile. If the system can't find your address, Google lets you pin the location directly on the map.

If you travel to customers, like a plumber or a cleaning service, and they don't come to you, Google's service-area rules say to remove your address from the profile. You list the places you serve instead: up to 20 service areas by city, postal code, or other area. Google doesn't allow a radius around your business, and your overall area shouldn't be more than about 2 hours of driving time from where you are based.

If customers come to your location and you also visit or deliver to them, you are a hybrid business. Google's example is a dine-in restaurant that also delivers. You show the storefront address and also set a service area. Without permanent on-site signage, the location doesn't qualify as a storefront.

A move is a good time to confirm which type you are. Google's guidance for switching from a storefront: if you serve customers at your address and also have a service area, enter both; if you don't serve customers at your address, remove it and enter only the service area. Businesses whose products or services have an age requirement, such as alcohol, cannabis, or weapons, need a storefront.

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