Changing your Name, Address, or Phone Number? Read this Step-by-Step

Mar 01, 2023

Are you changing your address, business name, or phone number? This is a must-read.

Changing your physical address, can have a drastic effect - like major levels of shutdown of traffic. Updating your NAP (Name, Address, Phone) data is vital to local search. The reason why is Google uses your address and indicators from other indexes (Facebook, Yellow Pages, Super Pages, BBB.org, Instagram, and the list goes on) to understand what is the most ACCURATE data. If you only change it on a handful of places, you are providing Google inaccurate data, and it can being to de-rank and effect your traffic drastically. Not in all cases will this happen, but in a majority of cases it does.


We highly suggest you do our Citation Boost & Fix service to avoid as much interruption as possible. There will still be an interruption in the traffic, but the citation boost can fix the changes and additionally place your business on many indexes permanently. This service takes up to 8 weeks to fully complete, and about 60-90 days for Google to see and reflect all those good changes.


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This is a step-by-step of the process to successfully change your business info online.


Step 1: Change Your Google Business Profile info. If necessary, provide verification to Google.

To keep your business information on Google accurate and up to date, you can edit your Business Profile on Google. To help potential customers find and learn more about your business, you can change information like your address, hours, contact info, and photos.

Step 2: Wait for Google Business verification - it may take a day, it make take weeks.

  • You may need to come back to this to complete step 3 and step 4.


Step 3: Once fully verified, log in and comment on your Detailers Roadmap website with the new info.

  • Comment on your website, of your complete new address, phone number, and business name. If you are changing names, please also include any logos (transparent PNG files preferred) that would need to go along.


Step 4: Fill out the form to alert support team to make changes to your account.

  • If you are moving to an area where there is not a preceding customer, we will lock out your area based on our loyalty and vicinity program if you are a monthly partner
  • This also alerts our internal team of changes to your account.

Update Your Business Info

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Updating My Business Phone Number

Updating My Business Address

Updating My Business Name

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