Ben Fisher posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google showing an ad within the Google Local Knowledge panel for a Dodge dealership. The interesting thing is the ad is from a different brand, a Toyota!
Here is the screen shot:
So you have a Dodge dealership showing a Toyota dealership ad in its local knowledge panel! Kind of nuts if you think about it.
Francisco chimed in about the monetization survey Google My Business sent out back in April, one of the bullet points was that if you pay, Google won't show competitor ads in your listings.
Could be but do you remember the GMB survey about paid for features? would you pay for... "Removing competitors’ ads from listings" 🧐 pic.twitter.com/sfIJ3ZlXVv
— Francisco CV (@FrancastroKW) August 22, 2019
Cha ching!?
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Update: This was not a competitors ad, Mike Blumenthal told me both dealers are owned by the same group and it was mistake by their Google Ads folks.
