Google Local Business Ads Displaying Everywhere
5 comments Apr 1, 2010 | Posted by admin in Local Search
Everyone within the local search space has been aware of Google’s local ad tests that they have been running in Houston and San Fransisco. Well, upon an early run through on a few of my clients listings, it seems that the option has been opened to the entire Local Business Center as you can see by the following pictures…
The above is a shot in Boise, Idaho. As you can see two companies have already started running ads. The shot below is in New York where the famous Lombardi’s Pizza has already hit the scene with a featured ad that takes you to some pictures of their some of their famous toppings.
And the final one should come as no surprise… It seems that David Mihm was ahead of the game and has his featured ad up for his local seo firm in Portland.
These are some of the ones that I have seen so far today. I am sure they are all over the place so if anyone has any others feel free to mention them in the comment section and I hope that this month turns into another exciting one for local!
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Hi Mike,
I am not able to reproduce the results you’ve seen, here in CA. My guess is that you’ve been lucky enough to run into a test. Looks like further rollouts of local ads must be imminent. Thanks for reporting this.
I just shot you and the other local folks an email inquiring HOW you saw David’s ad? Was it just an ‘seo IN portland or’ search? You weren’t seeing this come up without the ‘in’ were you. I got a little excited there for a minute. Please clarify.
Miriam, I think Mike got you. A talented local marketer like Mike probably also knows his way around graphics editing software. If you dig a little deeper into the Boise results you will notice that all of the area codes are for Houston, which is a little suspicious for April 1st.
Nice work Mike, as soon as I validated Miriam’s results I knew this was a little April Fool Fun.
I am guilty as charged. The first one was very difficult as I had to mess with removing Houston and adding Boise to the map. I wised up on the others though. I was wondering if any would catch the area codes
So this was a ruse? Nice one. You had me logging back into my LBL to see if the enhanced listing feature was back again.