The usefulness, and consequently the performance, of advertisements are
improved by allowing businesses to better target their ads to a
responsive audience. Location information is determined (or simply
accepted) and used. For example, location information may be used in a
relevancy determination of an ad. As another example, location
information may be used in an attribute (e.g., position) arbitration.
Such location information may be associated with price information, such
as a maximum price bid. Such location information may be associated with
ad performance information. Ad performance information may be tracked on
the basis of location information. The content of an ad creative, and/or
of a landing page may be selected and/or modified using location
information. Finally, tools, such as user interfaces, may be provided to
allow a business to enter and/or modify location information, such as
location information used for targeting and location-dependent price
information. The location information used to target and/or score ads may
be, include, or define an area. The area may be defined by at least one
geographic reference point (e.g., defined by latitude and longitude
coordinates) and perhaps additional information. Thus, the area may be a
circle defined by a geographic reference point and a radius, an ellipse
defined by two geographic reference points and a distance sum, or a
polygon defined by three or more geographic reference points, for
example.