Google Today announced that the company was suspending Local Listing Ads, for the time being:

According to Greg Sterling at SearchEngineLand.com,

“Starting today, we will no longer accept new sign-ups for Local Listing Ads in the Local Business Center, and in mid-December, existing Local Listing Ads will stop running. This limited free trial was one of many beta tests that we develop experimentally as part of our ongoing commitment to help businesses advertise online.

We’re currently using data and feedback from the trial period to make further improvements to our online marketing offerings for small businesses, and plan to release an enhanced version more widely in the near future. In the meantime, locally-minded businesses can simply and easily promote their products and services to their local markets by using existing features within our AdWords program, such as geographic targeting and location extensions.”

Don’t forget, It’s temporary, Ads will run until mid-December and stop until 2010. when they will probably release new features, after they have analyzed all the feedback from the usage of  clicks of the ad service.

I wonder if we’re going to have to pay for the service when it’s released again. Does anyone think this will happen?

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