{"id":9107,"date":"2011-02-09T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=9107"},"modified":"2011-02-09T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:13:58","slug":"google-places-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/google-places-tidbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"

This in from frequent contributor Plamen. Google has shifted their current “Offers” down on the Places Page to the bottom of the Page. Plamen speculates its perhaps to make room for paid offers higher up the page. Google has in the past noted that they are continually testing page content and moving down and out those things that do not perform well:
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Frequent commenter Earlpearl noticed this use of the 7-Pack to promote Hotpot. Clearly Google is using their many properties up to and including the main search engine results page to send users over to their new recommendation engine:
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This in from frequent contributor Plamen. Google has shifted their current “Offers” down on the Places Page to the bottom of the Page. Plamen speculates its perhaps to make room for paid offers higher up the page. Google has in the past noted that they are continually testing page content and moving down and out …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-hotpot","category-google-coupons","category-google-maps-google-local"],"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