Today Google announced that the company was suspending Local Listing Ads, for the time being: “Starting today, we will no longer accept new sign-ups for Local Listing Ads in the Local Business ...

The new Google Local Listing Ads will be accessible under a new “Ads” tab in the LBC and will be a self-service product.

The highlighted listing consists of your business name, two description lines, your URL, and your business address, all of which is gathered from Google Local’s business listings.

Google has been showing some ads in a local panel listing for years now, even sometimes showing a local listing with a competitors ad smack on top of it. But Ben Fisher said he has spotted, for ...

Google has unveiled two new local features for product listing ads (PLAs) to a limited number of retailers: local availability and local storefronts. These ads will tell customers when a product is ...

I recently had the “pleasure” of having to update approximately 60 business local listings for a client across the Google and Yahoo local business networks, and what I experienced working with ...

What are Local Service Ads for contractors? How can they benefit my HVACR company? Rather than the traditional pay-per-click ads most businesses run, Local Service Ads are pay-per-lead, and they ...

Ben Fisher spotted Google showing not just one local based screened ad but two screened ads in the local listings. And Andy Simpson spotted Google showing a scrollable reviews carousel in the ...

Google is one of the most popular sites where shoppers are searching for products, whether it is on smartphones, tablets or desktops. In fact, merchants should use Google product listing ads (PLAs) to ...

Learn the differences between Local Service Ads, Google Guaranteed, and Google Screened, and why local businesses should care about these programs.