Archive for the ‘Paid Advertising’ Category

New Way to Get On The Map: Sponsored Maps Icons

Google just started rolling out a new feature:  Sponsored Maps Icons.  In case you don’t know what a map icon is, let alone how to sponsor one, they’re those tiny little points on the map that look like they’re basically part of the map level, not even an overlay.  If you click on one, you [...]

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Radically Different Local SERPs Found In The Wild

Mike Blumenthal has been doing some great work today exploring the different test SERPs layouts that Google is testing out.  If you’re just joining the conversation now, here’s what the new layout looks like (Thanks for the screenshots Mike): Basically, what Google is doing here is meshing the organic results with the local results.  While [...]

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Cool Trick for Advertising on Your Competitors’ Place Pages

You may have noticed on the center right part of your place page that Google runs some ads.  This is a great place for ads – anyone who is looking a plumber’s Place Page, for example, is probably a pretty good potential customer for any other customer.  Here’s how you can run ads exactly in [...]

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Google Places: The Problem With Tags

One of the great things about Google’s Adwords program is how its auction based pricing system automatically sets the appropriate pricing according to both the keyword itself, and the market the campaign is targeting.  The system is what makes a keyword like bikini a more expensive cost per click in Miami than it is in [...]

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