{"id":6633,"date":"2018-04-08T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2018-04-08T17:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T17:26:35","slug":"here-an-ad-there-an-ad-everywhere-a-findagrave-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6633","title":{"rendered":"Here an Ad, There an Ad, Everywhere a FindAGrave Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;new&#8221; <em>FindAGrave<\/em> is still &#8220;new.&#8221; I took a second look to see if anything was different about the new site.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think there are any &#8220;new&#8221; new changes, but I was reminded of a few things about the site that frustrated me.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that websites need to have advertising and affiliate links in an attempt to make money. There are ads on this blog. I understand that completely.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0\u00a0<em>FindAGrave\u00a0<\/em>has gotten a little ad-happy. The new site is seemingly half advertisements and almost looks like an old MySpace Page. Personally there are entirely too many search boxes for <em>Ancestry.com<\/em>-based databases\u00a0on the site&#8211;two of them are for\u00a0<em>Newspapers.com<\/em>. That seems a little excessive for one page.<\/p>\n<p>The new layout makes\u00a0<em>FindAGrave\u00a0<\/em>look like a graveyard for MySpace pages and linkfarms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6634\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/findagrave-ads.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/findagrave-ads.jpg 431w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/findagrave-ads-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;new&#8221; FindAGrave is still &#8220;new.&#8221; I took a second look to see if anything was different about the new site. I don&#8217;t think there are any &#8220;new&#8221; new changes, but I was reminded of a few things about the site that frustrated me. I understand that websites need to have advertising and affiliate links [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}