This is not going to be a long post, just a “topical” post related to current Tiger Woods troubles and his sponsorhips.

Tiger Woods chose TLC…but he still hit the tree.

Tiger Woods chose TLC…but he’s made a bunch of bad decisions lately.

Maybe it’s time to find a better sales angle.

“I’m just sayin’” maybe you should update the title of your Ads, or better yet, let us all know what the CTR is 30 days before and 30 days after d-day for Tiger.

Yesterday I mentioned how Google Paid results were showing random blue markers with address and phone #s .

Today is the first day in which I noticed multiple blue markers and this time each marker was numbered.

The query for “st louis fence”  had these results (click for larger image)
[update at 4:40pm] I did the same query and found 4 blue numbred markers. I should note that this was using Chrome. On IE, I have not had more than 2

[update at 4:30pm] I did the same query and found 3 blue markers.

close up of one Ad:

Additionally, the query for “dallas fence” had these 2 numbered blue markers show up:

I would like some data on how this effects CTR, good or bad. Does the blue icon stand out so people click, or does the phone number just make people call and avoid clicking? 

Do these AdWords clients even know that this is happening to them?

Google has announced that you will now see more information in sponsored search results.

For example, a search for

What I am wondering is if you click “watch trailer” is the customer being charged?Most likely no, however, i am not 100% sure.