{"id":19888,"date":"2016-10-01T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=19888"},"modified":"2016-10-01T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:32:55","slug":"a-summary-of-recent-local-pack-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/a-summary-of-recent-local-pack-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"A Summary of Recent Local Pack Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk about walk and talking in Local<\/a> at the same time, Google Local has been on a testing tear with the Local Pack.<\/p>\n

Lots of reports of new and different pack layouts over the past few weeks. A special nod to Sergey Alakov<\/a>, Barry Schwartz<\/a> and Jennifer Slegg<\/a> and the many other observant souls who do such a great job tracking these things and reporting on them.<\/p>\n

9-28 Distance Filter spotted<\/a> by Sergey Alakov on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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9-26 Blue Links in the Pack spotted by\u00a0Sergey Alakov on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>.and reported<\/a> at Searchenginerountable
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9-26 Reported by Barry in\u00a0Google Tests Hotel Booking Ads At Top Instead Of Right Side<\/a>\u00a0and spotted by\u00a0Craig Harkins posted a screen shot on\u00a0Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

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Early September – Search by Rating for Non Restaurant Business (lost my reference on who saw this first but I think it was Sergey).
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Talk about walk and talking in Local at the same time, Google Local has been on a testing tear with the Local Pack. Lots of reports of new and different pack layouts over the past few weeks. A special nod to Sergey Alakov, Barry Schwartz and Jennifer Slegg and the many other observant souls who …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t