{"id":19276,"date":"2016-04-20T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=19276"},"modified":"2016-04-20T20:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:15:34","slug":"hotel-local-finder-aint-nuttin-but-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/20\/hotel-local-finder-aint-nuttin-but-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Local Finder – Ain’t Nuttin’ but Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

I reported earlier in the day that Google seemed to be rolling out a new Tag like attribute for the free hotel listings<\/a> in the Local Pack. During the past week, as noted<\/a> by<\/a> Brian Barwig and Michael Wallace, Google has also been adding paid ads to the top of the Local Finder. Together they are quite the dynamic duo.<\/p>\n

When you click into the Local Finder from the search, all too often now all you see above the fold are paid listings of one form or another. And unfortunately the Offers, while highly visible, are not at all marked as paid calls to action.<\/p>\n

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I reported earlier in the day that Google seemed to be rolling out a new Tag like attribute for the free hotel listings in the Local Pack. During the past week, as noted by Brian Barwig and Michael Wallace, Google has also been adding paid ads to the top of the Local Finder. Together they …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t