{"id":5019,"date":"2020-04-22T05:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webby360.com\/new\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2025-05-18T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:30:28","slug":"temporarily-close-your-business-on-google-maps-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webby360.com\/?p=5019","title":{"rendered":"Temporarily Close Your Business on Google Maps during Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Given the current state of COVID-19 all over the world, businesses have been forced to temporarily shut down. Can you reach Google to mark your business as temporarily closed?<\/p>\n<p>On March 15, 2020 Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, published a post about Google&#8217;s COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the coming days, we\u2019ll make it possible for businesses to easily mark themselves as temporarily closed, &#8211; Pichai<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ten days later on March 25th Google posted this on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webby360.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Google added to their Google My Business dashboard tips for business owners to communicate their hours or temporary closures for customers to be aware before they visited.<\/p>\n<p>Those actions were to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change the working hours<\/li>\n<li>Update the description of the business<\/li>\n<li>Creating a Google Post<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">Presently, we see posting changes either happening gradually or not at all. Changes made to hours may, or may not, be applied to your posting for a considerable length of time or even days. Adding special hours might be applied sooner than changing business hours.<\/p>\n<p>What other options do business owners have?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps to Temporarily Close Your Business<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Google has made it easier to apply seasonal, temporary or permanent closures to your business with the following steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sign in to Google My Business.<\/li>\n<li>In the menu, click \u201cInfo\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>To the right, select the option \u201cClose this business on Google.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>To expand this section, click the arrow.<\/li>\n<li>Click Mark as temporarily closed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This is what you will be looking for:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webby360.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image2.png\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Changing your business to temporarily closed won\u2019t influence your local search ranking. Businesses that offer delivery and take out services should not update their business to temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">If you have more than one profile, select the profile you want to change then follow steps 3,4 and 5 to mark those as temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Tip:<\/strong> If you have temporarily adjusted hours use the \u201cspecial hours\u201d feature to keep your customers up to date. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Check back for more updates and marketing tips from Webby360!<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;10px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the current state of COVID-19 all over the world, businesses have been forced to temporarily shut down. 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