Is there an advantage to switching from SAB to the address shown in the GBP?

[Brian - TGL]

It obviously makes citations easier & things like embedding the GBP map and including direction links from POIs to the business location.

In this case, it is a contractor that has a home office where clients sometimes come for discussions, so assuming Google allows the address to be verified I mean.

 

[JoyHawkins]

Yes. Watch this:

 

[bdlowery]

Yes. Watch this:

Doesn't this only apply for a business who:

• Creates GBP and verifies with address 1
• At some point changes display address to address 2
• At some point hides address to be a SAB
• Now that their address is hidden, instead of using address 2, google will use address 1 for SAB local ranking

 

[JoyHawkins]

No. The address didn't change for this example or others we tested that showed the same pattern.

 

[bdlowery]

No. The address didn't change for this example or others we tested that showed the same pattern.

Google is broken.

 

[Brian - TGL]

This will be interesting to test out. I just enabled the show address option on a SAB that was verified at the same location probably 3 years ago & no verification was triggered.

@JoyHawkins how much time elapsed in your tests for that video between toggling the address off and back on?

 

[JoyHawkins]

About a week.

 

[andersonstinger]

I have seen that behavior since years ago.