{"id":2447,"date":"2009-02-19T10:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2009-02-19T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T14:27:59","slug":"google-maps-now-showing-ads-within-listing-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/google-maps-now-showing-ads-within-listing-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps now showing Ads within Listing Tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been expanding where and when they show ads in general and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martijnbeijk.com\/real-reason-for-adsense-underneath-maps\/\">Maps in particular<\/a>. I am not sure when this started showing but Google Maps is now also <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=barbara+oliver+buffalo+ny&#038;fb=1&#038;split=1&#038;gl=us&#038;view=text&#038;latlng=3291747407840809159&#038;dtab=2&#038;ei=mmKdSf2pNpTcjAPNjeH5Dw&#038;oi=md_reviews&#038;sa=X#\">showing ads deep within the tabs<\/a> of business listings in Text View:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ad-in-tab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2448\" title=\"ad-in-tabs2\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ad-in-tabs2.jpg\" alt=\"ad-in-tabs2\" width=\"500\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Showing ads inside Maps in general increases relevancy. Displaying subtle ads at the bottom of Maps <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/google-maps-disaster-communications-reputation-management\/\">adds context<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However showing them in this new context seems intrusive to me. There is something very disconcerting about reading the intimate details of a business listing and being confronted with the ad of a competitor.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that not too many business owners will notice as I am not sure that they or many Maps users go this deep into Text View in Maps. However, this is one case where I do not think that the benefit to Google will outweigh the negative feelings of business owners&#8230; It smacks of a certain blatant exploitation of the businesses&#8217; good will equity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been expanding where and when they show ads in general and in Maps in particular. I am not sure when this started showing but Google Maps is now also showing ads deep within the tabs of business listings in Text View: Showing ads inside Maps in general increases relevancy. Displaying subtle ads at &#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-2447","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\/2447","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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}