{"id":3516,"date":"2009-06-02T13:45:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2009-06-02T13:45:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T17:45:38","slug":"what-is-an-acceptable-business-name-under-google-guidelines-poll-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/what-is-an-acceptable-business-name-under-google-guidelines-poll-results\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an acceptable business name under Google Guidelines? Poll Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a fair bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/google-maps-updated-quality-guidelines-for-business-listing\/#comments\">comment<\/a> about small business naming practices for the internet in general and Google Maps in particular after the recent upgrade to their <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/google-maps-updated-quality-guidelines-for-business-listing\/\">listing guidelines<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/google-maps-updated-quality-guidelines-for-business-listing\/\">discussion<\/a> revolved around the ambiguity that exists in the naming practices in small businesses and how that should best be projected into Maps to comply with Google requirements and best represent the business.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the results of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/google-maps-what-is-an-acceptable-business-name-under-google-guidelines\/\">poll<\/a> on what you think is allowable under Google&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/google-maps-guidelines-what-has-changed\/\">Map&#8217;s business listing guidelines<\/a> and you would recommend for a client (click for a larger image):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fulklsize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3519\" title=\"poll-results\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/poll-results.jpg\" alt=\"poll-results\" width=\"500\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/poll-results.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/poll-results-150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/poll-results-450x189.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a fair bit of comment about small business naming practices for the internet in general and Google Maps in particular after the recent upgrade to their listing guidelines. The discussion revolved around the ambiguity that exists in the naming practices in small businesses and how that should best be projected into Maps to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","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=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3546,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}