{"id":743,"date":"2008-07-30T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2008-07-30T13:46:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T17:46:51","slug":"google-maps-lbc-word-filter-bars-xxx-business-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/google-maps-lbc-word-filter-bars-xxx-business-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps LBC Word filter bars XXX business name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our formal business name is Blumenthals.com but the Local Business Center does not allow the use of a web url in the business name field. I didn&#8217;t worry too much about it other than to be slightly annoyed. It has forced me to address <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/renaming-your-business-for-local\/\">what a business name should look like<\/a> in the age of Local search.<\/p>\n<p>However this business poster in the Maps for Business Group definitely has an issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTOPIC: <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/2d9c51a9365f9ce7?hl=en\">Google won&#8217;t accept our business name, which is a pet store called<br \/>\nPussy &#038; Pooch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>=========================================<br \/>\n== 1 of 1 ==<br \/>\nDate: Tues, Jul 29 2008 11:41 am<br \/>\nFrom: &#8220;P&#038;P&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Our downtown Los Angeles pet store is called &#8220;Pussy &#038; Pooch&#8221;. Unfortunately Google Maps isn&#8217;t allowing us to use the word &#8216;Pussy&#8217;. Our business is not adult oriented in any way. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a way to contact Google Maps directly about this.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know a way to contact Google Maps directly? Thanks!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This might be one of those situation where an internet DBA would be appropriate. And just what exactly is a <em>Pooch?<\/em> I am anxiously waiting to see Map Guide Jen&#8217;s response.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our formal business name is Blumenthals.com but the Local Business Center does not allow the use of a web url in the business name field. I didn&#8217;t worry too much about it other than to be slightly annoyed. It has forced me to address what a business name should look like in the age of &#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-743","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\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}