{"id":14027,"date":"2011-01-26T16:50:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14027"},"modified":"2011-01-26T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T23:50:31","slug":"real-estate-listings-on-google-maps-she-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14027\/real-estate-listings-on-google-maps-she-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Listings on Google Maps – she is no more."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a passing announcement that Google today officially ended Real Estate listings on Google Maps and Place Pages for individual property listings as well. For those playing the home game, here is the relevant information<\/a>. <\/p>\n

So what does this mean? Not much in my opinion. The reason Google dropped these ventures is that they simply were not generating traffic to the map searches. So, the corresponding ripple effect now that they are ceasing to exist will be equally small. <\/p>\n

My take is that if a tree falls in the forest and it is a really small tree (traffic wise at least), then there won’t be a very loud noise. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a passing announcement that Google today officially ended Real Estate listings on Google Maps and Place Pages for individual property listings as well. For those playing the home game, here is the relevant information. So what does this mean? Not much in my opinion. 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