{"id":13504,"date":"2012-09-20T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=13504"},"modified":"2012-09-19T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T18:26:18","slug":"whither-adwords-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/whither-adwords-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither AdWords Express?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since early in the year when Adwords Express, Google&#8217;s simplified Adwords product for SMBs,\u00a0\u00a0was upgraded we have heard little about the product. The interface was <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/google-removes-adwords-express-from-places\/\">removed<\/a> from most dashboards and we have seen no effort to promote it. Today, every Places Dashboard account that I have received this email providing a $100 discount and a strong pitch for the full Adwords product. Where has Adwords Express gone? Is it history or will it return when Google finally <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/google-local-what-wasnt-in-the-announcement-was-more-important-than-what-was\/\">finishes the integration of local into Plus<\/a> and offers a full on marketing portal?<\/p>\n<p>This sort of ad leaves plenty of doubt about its future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ADwords-push.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13505\" title=\"ADwords-push\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ADwords-push-619x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ADwords-push-619x1024.png 619w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ADwords-push-121x200.png 121w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ADwords-push-363x600.png 363w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ADwords-push.png 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since early in the year when Adwords Express, Google&#8217;s simplified Adwords product for SMBs,\u00a0\u00a0was upgraded we have heard little about the product. The interface was removed from most dashboards and we have seen no effort to promote it. Today, every Places Dashboard account that I have received this email providing a $100 discount and a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-about-googles-local-listing-ads","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Since early in the year when Adwords Express, Google&#039;s simplified Adwords product for SMBs, was upgraded we have heard little about the product. The interface was removed from most dashboards and we have seen no effort to promote it. 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