: If you delete a Google Business page, do the reviews also get deleted with it? Reviews posted against a business on Google appear on Google Maps, within the Google Search results, and on Google+.

@Michele947

First, you state the negatives are from competitors. Have you looked at who is posting the reviews and how have you determined it to be competitors? The reason for this is simple; if you are having a customer issue and you do not deal with it, all the advice on fixing this is not worth the time of writing it.

If you believe it is competitors, for me it would come down to how many negative reviews versus positive reviews. If there are 5 plus negative and no positive, changing your places account could be positive except that...you competitors did it before why would they not do it when you change it?

Get the good reviews from your customers and help them post them. Once you do, you will move some of the negative down. On any of the negative, leave them be - do not respond unless it is really causing the business a problem. The more you respond, the more you will invite others and rebuttal.

Second, When you delete a business page, you don't actually delete it, rather you delete your ownership of the business page. It will stay in Maps for quite some time until Google cannot find any corresponding data to say the business exists.

You can mark it permanently closed, remove all and any references to it online and it will fade away, how long, not entirely sure.

If it was a duplicate or an old address, you can ask business support to mark as Moved to your new business page.
support.google.com/business/contactflow

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