Google Explains: What to Do if Your Business Moves Locations

Googler Jade W posted a promising note in the help forums stating that Google has updated the procedure on the popular and previously convoluted process of What you do if your business moves locations.

"Verified business owner of a page, and is your business moving locations? Here's what you do.

Edit your address in Google Places for Business or in the Google+ page admin area, whichever you are using to manage the page. This will either make a new page or edit the address on the existing page. It may take a week or two after editing your address before you see an update. At this point, you may need to go through a verification process again. Don't worry -- this is normal.

If you see a page that's still got the old address, click on Report a problem and mark that location as closed. Provide the link to the new address or information about the new location if possible. You can find more instructions on closing a location here: http://goo.gl/YZIjq"

Remember, that your business information NEEDS to be consistent online. So, if you are changing your address then you need to do that same change within all the other sites that have your address listed or it could have a negative impact on your company's local rankings.