Around the country today, marketers in the $35 billion addiction treatment industry woke up to an unpleasant surprise: Many of their Google search ads were gone. Overnight, the search giant has stopped selling ads against a huge number of rehab-related search terms, including “rehab near me,” “alcohol treatment,” and thousands of others. Search ads on some of those keywords would previously have netted Google hundreds of dollars per click.
“We found a number of misleading experiences among rehabilitation treatment centers that led to our decision, in consultation with experts, to restrict ads in this category,” Google told me this morning by email.
Google is the biggest source of patients for most treatment centers. Advertisers tell...
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16309752/google-rehabs-near-me-search-adwords-crackdown
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/09/exclusive-google-is-cracking-down-on.html
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