{"id":5343,"date":"2009-11-24T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2009-11-23T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T21:30:21","slug":"new-local-listing-ad-layout-whatever-happened-to-the-7-pack-for-web-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/new-local-listing-ad-layout-whatever-happened-to-the-7-pack-for-web-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Local Listing Ad Layout & Whatever Happened to the 7-Pack for Web Designers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ross Jones, of 2 the Top Web Design<\/a>, sent along a new layout for Local Listing Ads that he spotted on the search Web Design San Diego<\/a>. Notice the lack of 7 Pack, Map & Pins and the display of the Local Listing Ads placed completely on the right side of the screen (click to view larger):
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Obviously, if there is no 7 Pack, the ads need to go someplace.<\/p>\n

The question that many designers, search firms, web hosting companies and advertising agents are asking is: What happened to the 7-Pack for all of those industries? The missing 7-packs have been reported world wide and has affected many internet and marketing related searches. There are two active threads in the Maps forums, here<\/a> and here<\/a><\/p>\n

For example none of the following show a Map or Local listing results:
\n–Marketing Firms Boston MA<\/a>
\n–Local Search Marketing Portland OR<\/a>
\n–Web Hosting Denver Co<\/a>
\n–Web Design Los Angeles Ca<\/a>
\n–Advertising agency NY NY<\/a><\/p>\n

Google is apparently aware of the issue and has classified it as a bug. It appears that it was related to the previous problem of the OneBox <\/a>showing too much. Here is Google’s response on 11\/18:<\/p>\n

Hi Everybody,<\/p>\n

This looks like it’s closely related to the issue going on at the thread I’ve linked below. We realize there’s something going on here, and we initially pushed out a fix a while back. There was a little hiccup with the fix, which is probably why the results in Fresno may have gone back up and then back down as addoctane mentioned above.<\/p>\n

The team is working on this issue. Stay tuned to the thread below where I will post an update as soon as I hear one.<\/p>\n

Thank you all for your persistence!<\/p>\n

BB<\/p>\n

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Local search results issues<\/a>(Web)<\/div>\n
www.google.com<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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So now all you web designers and search marketing firms whose heart skipped a beat when you thought that your keyword crammed title had been finally dinged, can now sleep easy and worry another day. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ross Jones, of 2 the Top Web Design, sent along a new layout for Local Listing Ads that he spotted on the search Web Design San Diego. Notice the lack of 7 Pack, Map & Pins and the display of the Local Listing Ads placed completely on the right side of the screen (click to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-about-googles-local-listing-ads","category-google-maps-google-local"],"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