{"id":149,"date":"2007-05-06T08:29:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T12:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-05-06T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T12:29:47","slug":"interface-upgrade-on-local-onebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/interface-upgrade-on-local-onebox\/","title":{"rendered":"Interface upgrade on Local OneBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/upgradedonebox.jpg\" alt=\"Upgraded OneBox\" \/ \/>Google has recently upgraded the Local OneBox with additional pins that create a stronger visual point of entry to Maps.<\/p>\n<p>In late January, Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=100\">upgrade of the Local Onebox<\/a> led to a <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=120\">dramatic increase of traffic<\/a> to to Google Maps. At the time I noted that:<br \/>\n<em>They are still only showing three results. Why three? Why not 4 or 5 or even 6. The choice to stick with 3 denies many the opportunity for a listing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This recent upgrade (I have no idea when it occurred as I have been busy catching up on business and my son&#8217;s basball upon our return from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blumenthals.com\/index.php?athens\">extended vacation<\/a>) doesn&#8217;t really solve this problem of the arbitrary placement of the top 3 listings but does create a strong impression that there are more listing worthy of note and should induce even more traffic to Google Maps. It is a subtle but welcome upgrade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has recently upgraded the Local OneBox with additional pins that create a stronger visual point of entry to Maps. In late January, Google&#8217;s upgrade of the Local Onebox led to a dramatic increase of traffic to to Google Maps. At the time I noted that: They are still only showing three results. Why three? &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}