GMB Company Name Recognition

[Oliver Keates]

Hi

Is Google intelligent enough to recognise for example that John Smith Dentist Ltd and John Smith Dentist Limited are the same company? If some citations use Ltd and other citations use Limited will GMB mark you down as i know the NAP has to be consistant?

thanks

 

[Colan Nielsen]

Hi @Oliver Keates yes that example is one that Google would normalize. If it was a totally different name than you would want to fix it. But Google knows that Ltd is the same as Limited.

Whitespark refers to that specific example in this article they published a while back https://whitespark.ca/acceptable-google-maps-nap-abbreviations-and-variations/

 

[JoshuaMackens]

Hi

Is Google intelligent enough to recognise for example that John Smith Dentist Ltd and John Smith Dentist Limited are the same company? If some citations use Ltd and other citations use Limited will GMB mark you down as i know the NAP has to be consistant?

thanks

I'm not sure anyone knows the answer to that question for sure, unless something has been proven that I missed.

The general theory at the moment is that yes, Google can pick up that difference.

However, I would still correct your citations everywhere, no matter what. And the few that are left that have the difference, well, you can't fix them anyway. So there you are and your competitors won't be able to fix their differences either on those sites. So you'll be on a level playing field no matter what.

 

[Phil Rozek]

@Oliver Keates, what @Colan Nielsen and @JoshuaMackens said. Also, my usual test is this: if you search for those variations on the name, does Google pull up the correct GMB page? If so, then Google can probably herd all the citation cats.