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How to Remove a Permanently Closed Google Business Profile Page from Google Maps for Good
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A longstanding gripe of business owners, local SEOs, and others is that Google Business Profile (AKA GMB) pages linger around on the map even after they’re marked as “permanently closed.” Most often it’ll be a page you once created or claimed, or it may be a competitor’s spam page or a page that’s causing some other problem. In any event, you want the page completely gone from Google Maps, rather than in “permanently closed” purgatory.
Google’s stated policy on removing GBP/GMB pages has been that a business owner need to relinquish control of a page, mark it as permanently closed, and then Google may or may not choose to remove it. Google may keep it around long-term if it sees some benefit to keeping the listing accessible on Maps. Google’s MO is to hoard ...