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Google Makes It Easier To Create And Find Mobile Coupons

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Google continues to experiment with location-based ads and mobile targeting—and the newest iteration is the launch of mobile coupons. Business owners have been able to offer coupons through their local business listings on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps since 2007, but now Google is making those coupons easily accessible via phone.

SEE ALSO: Google’s New Place Pages: More Time Spent On Maps, And Maybe, More Revenue

Startups like Loopt and Whrrl-creator Pelago have also recently detailed app-based mobile couponing options

It’s a self-serve option; restaurants, spas and other stores add a coupon to their business listing, then click a “mobile distribution” tab, and it sets up a formatted landing page. The coupons are easier to find, and users can show them to a cashier right from their phone. The coupons are also accessible from (and add more value to) the Place Pages—or comprehensive, one-page descriptions of specific locations, landmarks and neighborhoods—that Google rolled out in September. Mobile coupons are currently only available in the U.S.; no details on when or where they’ll launch abroad.

Nov 24, 2009 3:01 PM ET

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Posted In: Advertising, Local, Mobile, Companies, Google

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