Uncheck the Box Meant for Delivering at Your Home Address
Here’s an option to tell Google you deliver goods and services to clients at their respective locations but not at your home address:
- You’d want to log in your GMB listing page
- Drag your mouse and click on the “Edit Info” option
- Select the little Pencil next to the “Address” tab
- Mark the box specifying you deliver goods and services to your customers at their locations
- Complete the info regarding where you make deliveries
- Unmark the box that specifies you deliver to customers at your own address.
Technically, this isn’t going to hide your address as you’re literally blurring the street outlook picture of your home. I got prompted to do this a while ago for a non-business related challenge.
Here the steps to follow to have your home address blurred out:
- Visit Google Maps and enter your home address through the “Search Google Maps” field.
- Open the street outlook, or alternatively, click on the yellow icon and drag onto a street spotlighted in blue.
- Choose the Report a Problem option – on the bottom right-hand side of your screen.
- Drag the picture of your home and drop in the red box.
- Fill in the appropriate field in the “Report Inappropriate Street Outlook” form – You’ll see a new tab/window open whereby you’ll be able to request that your car, your home, a specific face, the license plate of your car, or any other necessary image.
- Submit the completed form – Having completed this form, fill in your email address and hit the Publish button.
- Try checking the address again after a week to find out if the picture was blurred.
Were you able to get this done? Get back to me through the comment box below. If you do share your thought, I’ll get in touch and respond to your message in earnest.
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Israel17
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Hey Eva, most welcome on board! Yeah, it should be a top-up for the webinar as similar ideas are being discussed. While you can leverage your Google My Business listing to build traffic to your site, you aren't violating Google's guidelines for operating such a business if you try hiding your address from customers. The red box is there right on Google Maps to drop your address in to prevent customers from reaching out to you via that address.
However, hiding your address doesn't imply you're violating the guidelines, but you're choosing to deliver goods and services at the customer's location. Thanks for stopping by!
Israel Olatunji
However, hiding your address doesn't imply you're violating the guidelines, but you're choosing to deliver goods and services at the customer's location. Thanks for stopping by!
Israel Olatunji
Israel17
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Hey Eva, note that you can localize your national website and business using your Google My Business listing. Just enter your website address while signing up a GMB account and make sure to verify your GMB listing. You'll start reaching more potential customers in no distant time. Thanks for your passion in building a profitable online business!
Israel Olatunji
Israel Olatunji
Israel17
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Hey Chris, in response to your question regarding Google My Business listings and in relation to getting traffic through that to your website, I wish to inform you that you can drive lots of traffic to your site from an ideal GMB listing even though it's meant for a 100 percent local business.
Note that you're eligible to have good standing with Google running a Google My Business (GMB) listing even if you have a website added to your listing. It doesn't mean that you aren't eligible. However, you won't be eligible if and only if you don't have a real street address through which people can reach out to you physically.
In the light of that, hiding your physical address using Google Maps won't ever stop you from staying secure with your listing. No penalty for hiding your physical address! You are not removing it from your listing! You're only hiding it by dropping it in the red box as described in the previous training regarding Google My Business listing setups.
Israel Olatunji
Note that you're eligible to have good standing with Google running a Google My Business (GMB) listing even if you have a website added to your listing. It doesn't mean that you aren't eligible. However, you won't be eligible if and only if you don't have a real street address through which people can reach out to you physically.
In the light of that, hiding your physical address using Google Maps won't ever stop you from staying secure with your listing. No penalty for hiding your physical address! You are not removing it from your listing! You're only hiding it by dropping it in the red box as described in the previous training regarding Google My Business listing setups.
Israel Olatunji
