There are times when a service area business listing (a listing without an address showing) is already claimed in a Google account you don’t have access to. When that happens, Google want you to create a new listing, verify it, and then merge it with the existing one that’s live. This process can take weeks before you gain control of the live listing, and it often leads to issues with duplicate listings if Google doesn’t merge them properly. This workaround makes claiming the service ar...
