Google GeoAds beta
23rd March 2006
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Google GeoAds beta has been out for less than 2 weeks. CPC’s are super cheap. Wanna see it? Go to Google Local and type in the search box, “booksellers nyc�. You should see a little coffee cup in addition to the little red ballons. Click on the coffee cup, and an ad appears for Barnes & Noble with their logo, hyperlink, street location, and phone number. Sweet, huh? That is a PPC ad. Super cheap cpc’s. And a really fresh beta. Only 2 weeks old. Sweeeeeet. It also has a management interface like adwords. Just get a link/client added to your My Client Center (MCC). Now if you’re new to Google Local, the listings on the left are Free / Organic. If you have already submitted your feed for Google Base, you’ll need to submit another feed for your locations to Google Local. Google Base is for products, and Google Local is for locations. Google Base products show in the “One box� under Product search results on a regular Web Search: Google Local locations only show on Google Local. Related posts: |
March 23rd, 2006 at
Google Local Gets Ads
I’m not certain if this is new or not, but Shimon Sandler says that Google Local now has sponsored placements. As you can see from the screen grab below, I was able to verify this. Technorati Tags: google, maps, local,
March 23rd, 2006 at
dude I get nuthin’
March 24th, 2006 at
Hey, you are a walking advertisement for Google. RIGHT!~
March 24th, 2006 at
Graywolf: Barry answers why you didn’t see anything… “If you are a Mac user, like myself, you most likely won’t see the coffee icon, in either Safari or even Firefox. But if you are a PC user, you should see the result on both IE and FireFox.” His post is: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060324-094055
March 24th, 2006 at
I use a PC. I tried it in FireFox and in IE. I zoomed in, I zoomed out. Nothing. What’s the secret handshake?
Robbin Steif
LunaMetrics
March 24th, 2006 at
[...] A few weeks ago at SES, Google told me they were going to be allowing advertisers to add logos and graphical images to the mapping balloons that appear on Google Local. I looked for them but couldn’t find them. Today, apparently, they started appearing. This blog has a screenshot. I was unable to find this ad (or other similar ads) on my own. [...]
March 25th, 2006 at
[...] Google zou Google niet zijn als ook in de online kaarten betaalde advertenties gezet konden worden. Shimon Sandler was de eerste die tests van Google GeoAds opmerkte, een dienst waarmee je als bedrijf extra informatie op de online kaart kan neerzetten. [...]
March 25th, 2006 at
[...] Shimon Sandlerå?‘现Googleæ£åœ¨æµ‹è¯•ä¸€ä¸ªå›¾ç‰‡å¹¿å‘? 在Goolge Localä¸ï¼Œå?‡å¦‚ä½ åœ¨google Localeä¸ç”¨å…³é”®å—booksellers nyc æ?œç´¢çš„è¯?ï¼Œä½ ä¼šå?‘现在地图ä¸æœ‰å¸¦å°?å’–å•¡å›¾æ ‡ï¼Œå¦‚æžœç‚¹å‡»è¿™ä¸ªå›¾æ ‡å°±ä¼šå‡ºçŽ°ç›¸åº”çš„å›¾ç‰‡å¹¿å‘? 。 å?¦å¤–：Shimon 还å‘? 诉我们这个广å‘? æœ?å? ¡çš„å??称为â€?GeoAds.â€? [...]
March 25th, 2006 at
[...] ì?´ ê´‘ê³ í…Œì? ¤í? ¸ë¥¼ 처ì?Œ 발견한 것으로 ì•Œë ¤ì§„ Shimon Sandlerì?€ ì?´ ê´‘ê³ ë¥¼ ì§€ì˜¤ì• ë“œ(GeoAds)ë?¼ê³ 호ì¹í•˜ê³ 있ì? µë‹ˆë‹¤. [...]
March 25th, 2006 at
This G local system has a decent user experience, but seems like a lacking model for local advertisers as there are still no options for display advertising. When will they figure it out - local advertisers need to brand more than the online ecommerce businesses who have made G successful.
March 25th, 2006 at
I’m on a PC using Firefox and I still don’t see the coffee cup… maybe they’ve taken it off since they’re getting all these curiosity clicks from people reading your blog.
March 26th, 2006 at
[...] Google isn’t inviting you out for a cup of coffee when you see the little coffee-cup icon show up on a map in Google Local. SEO blogger Shimon Sandler posted his observation of the new ads showing up as a result of a search for “booksellers nyc”: [...]
March 27th, 2006 at
http://local.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&q=booksellers+nyc&ll=40.791719,-74.00013&spn=0.169992,0.322037
Would be a more direct link, though i do not get the coffee cup as well.
March 27th, 2006 at
I tried the same search “booksellers” term, but with different cities and I never got the coffee cup icon in any other city than NYC, but I did a search for “booksellers San Francisco” and I got an icon of a bed and it was a sponsored link for InterContinental Hotels. I’m sure there’ll be much more of this in near future.
March 28th, 2006 at
great!
March 28th, 2006 at
Now you are on heise.de - have fun with the traffic
March 28th, 2006 at
The only good thing about it is that GoogleAds are not as annoying as regular banners - still they’re a nuisance to anyone out there - I am unwilling to see the world devided into “service” and “business” since everyone out there knows: you have to pay for ads, no - the customer is gonna pay for it.
It almost makes me feel we need an open source service for that…
July 11th, 2006 at
[...] Während die Informationen bei GoYellow letztlich Branchenbucheinträge sind, geht Google Local sogar schon einen Schritt weiter: dort kann man jetzt nämlich Werbung auf Cost per Click Basis schalten, schreibt Shimon Sandler und auch Golem. [...]
September 29th, 2006 at
Interesting. Has anyone also noticed that Google appears to be serving up locations at the foot of its ads? I can only assume this is a step towards geo-targeting through a users IP address.
More at http://forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=882