your scenario and client type are very feasible. It would seem note appropriate for some size and type of businesses than others.

I have trouble envisioning it working well in rural environments or with many types of business. The destination business like the sho repair shop would not likely benefit

I just had the same experience this week. This time the phone verification was offered but the receptionist on the phone receiving the verification call hung up twice, so I had to wait for my client to return to the business and receive the call (Google doesn’t even identify itself during the call, how nice!) . During that time the business vanished from Google Maps and reappeared once the pin had been entered.

If Nandos of Mcdonalds chose to place all their locations on the map, I could see significant value.

If I am looking for a location for a meeting and notice that there is a restaurant I like close by, I think that could be useful marketing from a sales POV and certainly awareness

The reason that the phone number wasn’t offered was that Google did not have confidence it. Their first and least expensive choice is phone verification but after the locksmith scandals they stopped trusting every phone number in the world….

I have not yet experienced the “blackout” but it is conceivable to me that a listing that is initially allowed into the index with “caveats” under some cloud of suspicion might move from one index to another or one status to another and not show up during that change process.

Mike

Is that normal in the CPM business? To vary the rate, I mean a thousand impressions is a thousand impressions, no?

They also noted that they were initially pitching the idea to big very large brands in AU and NZ only…so no opportunity for Chicken Ranch or other creative logos.