Comments on: Google Coupons Continue Their Rise From the Dead

By: Google Confirms Coming Check-in Offers for Plus | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:43:20 +0000

[...] with ValPak but by early 2009 Places coupons had completely tanked due to lack of visibility. They made a brief reappearance in the main search results along with the Google paid, fixed price ad product Tags in June, 2010. [...]

By: Google Testing Coupons in Adwords | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:15:32 +0000

[...] left to languish for a number of years before seeing some activity in late 2009 and through 2010 with the Tags Beta. 2010 culminated with the failed effort to purchase [...]

By: Google Latitude Adds Checkin Offers Nationwide | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:26:06 +0000

[...] In November 2009 mobile compatibility and in June 2010 SMBs were given the ability to highlight them on their listing via Tags, potentially giving them front page [...]

By: Menachem Pritzker

Menachem Pritzker — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:10:46 +0000

It’s a shame they’ve been hiding coupons, and I hope they do start showing them more. Since call tracking numbers are counter productive to ranking well (lack of consistency in citations), coupons are one of the only ways left to reliably track campaigns – i.e. 10% off if you mention you found us on site X. I use those for all my clients, and Google consistently underperforms, probably because the coupons are so damn hard to find.

By: James

James — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:01:44 +0000

Google Places has a lot of potential. I guess they’re still trying to figure out the best way to go forward with it. If they do it right it will be the holy grail of the internet.

It would be nice if they could expand on the coupon idea and allow other kinds of promotions. For one, they could set up/allow for the insertion of restaurant daily lunch/dinner specials. They seem to have taken away the daily message box that allowed the immediate posting from owners.

Places has so much more potential, even more than search!

By: William Hill

William Hill — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:42:49 +0000

Hmm, I will have to start looking out for that now!

By: Danielle Kraft

Danielle Kraft — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:37:08 +0000

I would really love it if Google would send out their emails consistently. Mike, I am truly jealous that you received an email alert about an expiring coupon. When my client’s coupon expired last month I’m pretty sure there was no email sent out. (In the Email Preferences section all 5 boxes are checked, so I’m not sure why). I also miss the emails that started to go out for the Google Places Update, which would show our performance for the last 30 days. Those emails come in spurts – do you experience the same?

@earlpearl – that gave me a chuckle and I thank you for that!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:59:38 +0000

@Kyle

At this point not much more than some anectdotal evidence and even that is not very good

By: Kyle Kazak

Kyle Kazak — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:41:37 +0000

@Mike

Nice post, do you know of any figures on these new tags that Google is letting SMBs buy? About how much does it alter the CTR?

My guess is that past a certain adoption rate the CTR will drop off substantially. If all 7 of 7 listings have a tag highlighting a feature, what would differentiate them now?

By: Google Now Highlights Local Businesses in Top Search Results

Google Now Highlights Local Businesses in Top Search Results — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:40:23 +0000

[...] a separate post, Blumenthal also noted the "resurrection" of Google Coupons from the dead. Alongside our reporting earlier this month on Google's mobile payment solution, all [...]