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Thanks for the policy update, I hadn't seen that.

Based on this, I would say the listing is clean. I would say the most obvious issue is that if you go to Maps and zoom into the business location as close as you can get and then do a search on 'garage door supplier' a pin doesn't show up, not even a little orange dot. It does for the other garage door companies in the neighborhood though.

It's the same result as if I had searched for 'flower shop' or some other non-matching category. Google doesn't see it as a garage door company. You can do the exact same search on 'entry gates' and the pin shows right up.

If you go into their listing though, it says 'Garage Door Supplier' for the category.

I suspect there's a mismatch in Google's database, but not sure how I can force it to sync back up. The support person at Google agreed, but could only suggest poking the listing by making a few edits and saving.

How would one go about knowing if a Google+ Local listing was violation free? I'm not aware of anything and of course Google didn't say anything (but I'm guessing maybe they wouldn't).

Although can a listing be under penalty and still show up on other categories in Places? This business shows up #1 for 'entry gates' in Maps and Places, even though their primary category is set to 'garage door supplier'.

I have a Google Places listing that has the category set to 'Garage Door Supplier', yet if you do a search in Maps on this same phrase and zoom into the area of the map where the business is located, it doesn't get flagged as a garage door supplier. If you just search on the business name, is does get flagged in the right location.

I spoke with Google (yeah, an actual human) and they were baffled. The only suggestion they had was to try adding a few more categories to see if maybe that would force an update.

Has anyone ran into this, and if so, did you find a fix?