Natural Search Blog » Map-Ads http://www.naturalsearchblog.com Thought leaders in search engine optimization weigh in with the latest SEO news and commentary Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:21:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en © chris@netconcepts.com () chris@netconcepts.com() Thought leaders in search engine optimization weigh in with the latest SEO news and commentary chris@netconcepts.com No no http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Natural Search Blog http://www.naturalsearchblog.com 144 144 Google Maps could be chocked full-O-ads http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2007/06/20/google-maps-could-be-chocked-full-o-ads/ http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2007/06/20/google-maps-could-be-chocked-full-o-ads/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:34:17 +0000 Chris Silver Smith http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2007/06/20/google-maps-could-be-chocked-full-o-ads/ I was glancing at Google Maps of Tokyo when I noticed just how many ads they have running in them! I can see icons for all sorts of chain restaurants for instance, including: McDonald’s, Baskin-Robbins, 7-Eleven, Royal Host, Mini Stop, Taco John’s, Denny’s, KFC, ampm, etc.

Ads in Google Maps, Tokyo
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Now, we’ve already seen ads in Google Maps here in America, but in a much more limited deployment:

Google Maps Ads in the US
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The Tokyo map ads are not clickable like the ads in the states.

What’s really different with the Tokyo map is the density of ads within the maps is much greater, and there seems to be much more variety of companies advertising. I can only see this as the likely future for Google Maps here in the US, too — more ads, from more companies.

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