How to Remove a Duplicate Listing from HotFrog

Part of a comprehensive Local SEO strategy involves cleaning up and standardizing citations for your business.

If your business has ever had a name change, or phone number change, you may have some duplicate listings floating around out there. These duplicate listings ideally need to be removed.

For some listings it can be a bit of a hunt to figure out exactly how to remove duplicates. We recently encountered an inaccurate extra listing on HotFrog, so we are sharing how to remove a duplicate listing from HotFrog.

Here's how to remove a duplicate listing from HotFrog:

1. First, make sure you have claimed the duplicate listing. You can't delete it unless you are the owner.
2. Click on the 'Select a Business' link at the top of the page and select the duplicate business profile that you want to delete. Note: if you only have 1 listing in your account, you will not see "Select another business" -- you will only see the name of the business.
   
3. Once you are looking the profile you want to delete, click on the "Remove your free profile" link toward the bottom of the page. The URL contains the Company ID ( http://www.hotfrog.com/RemoveListing.aspx?CompanyID=######## ) so you can double check that you are deleting the correct profile by checking the ID number.

To get a more in-depth explanation of how Citations and Local SEO work, check out our Local SEO blog post. We’ve also put together a list of Local SEO Resources.