{"id":20644,"date":"2017-05-05T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=20644"},"modified":"2017-05-08T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:06:54","slug":"just-how-long-can-a-google-my-business-name-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/05\/just-how-long-can-a-google-my-business-name-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Long Can a Google My Business Name Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-08-10.06.30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20664\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-08-10.06.30-300x130.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-08-10.06.30-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-08-10.06.30.png 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Update 5\/8<\/strong>: And the answer is 100! I continued testing and determined that if attempting to use\u00a0101 characters, the edit gets rejected with a <em>Please enter fewer characters<\/em> message:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-08-10.04.25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20663\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-08-10.04.25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-08-10.04.25.png 556w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-08-10.04.25-195x200.png 195w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-08-10.04.25-520x532.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My exploration inside the Google Spam Hall of Shame made me\u00a0curious exactly how long a business name could be. While I have yet to find the absolute limit I have determined that it is somewhere between 97 and 107 characters. Not sure how I have lived this long without that piece of information.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with this knowledge you can now go modify your business name to your heart&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-05-12.57.08.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20645\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-05-12.57.08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-05-12.57.08.png 558w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-05-12.57.08-257x200.png 257w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot-2017-05-05-12.57.08-520x405.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poster\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adjuice.co.uk\/\" rel=\"external\" class=\"url\">Ewan Kennedy of Adduce SEO<\/a>\u00a0in Surrey\u00a0is getting into the spirit of this challenge. He hit 97. Do I hear 98?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-11.48.38-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20659\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-11.48.38-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-11.48.38-AM.png 465w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-11.48.38-AM-213x200.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 5\/8: And the answer is 100! I continued testing and determined that if attempting to use\u00a0101 characters, the edit gets rejected with a Please enter fewer characters message: My exploration inside the Google Spam Hall of Shame made me\u00a0curious exactly how long a business name could be. While I have yet to find the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20665,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20644\/revisions\/20665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}