{"id":113,"date":"2006-12-15T23:02:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T04:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/building.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/21\/wordpresscom-it-takes-seconds-and-is-free-maybe\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T23:38:13","slug":"wordpresscom-it-takes-seconds-and-is-free-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"WordPress.com &#8220;It Takes Seconds and is Free!&#8221; (maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took a while for me to notice, but recently I&#8217;ve noticed that some google ad-words have been popping up on this site without me having any control over whether they appear (or where they appear).<\/p>\n<p>A quick trip over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/forums\/topic.php?id=6193&amp;replies=5#post-39989\">wordpress forums<\/a> and in less than 5 minutes I had my <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/06\/on-ads\/\">answer<\/a>. WordPress has been testing the placement of ads on member sites since September, and only those reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/\">wordpress.com blog headlines<\/a> would know.<\/p>\n<p>Given that WordPress.com is providing the webspace, backups, and an entire blogging platform at the cost of an ad-word here and there &#8212; it&#8217;s not all that bad. For a while I was able to search for certain Small Time Landlord post titles in google, click through and see the ad-words near the top of my posts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/building.files.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/googlespam.jpg\" alt=\"Google Ad-Words on Small Time Landlord\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, I haven&#8217;t been able to reproduce the ad-word placement on these pages, but let me know if you see them. =)<\/p>\n<p>More blogs about <a rel=\"tag directory\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogs\/small+time+landlord\">small time landlord<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogs\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/pix\/tbf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a while for me to notice, but recently I&#8217;ve noticed that some google ad-words have been popping up on this site without me having any control over whether they appear (or where they &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-difficulties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}