Google Local Services Ads Tests Showing Number Of Bookings

Nov 19, 2018 - 7:46 am 2 by
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Google seems to be testing showing the number of bookings that happened through a local services ads directly in the Google ads. Tom Waddington posted a screen shot that shows Google displaying "booked 870+ times near you."

Tom posted this screen shot on Twitter:

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This is what I see:

Google Local Service Ads

I suspect showing the number of bookings does two things; (1) gives confidence to the shopper that the business is dependable and (2) encourages the business that doesn't show the number of bookings to use a Google backed booking system.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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