Google Premier Sponsored Listings ?
Can someone tell me why this is so wrong :
I remember Google once saying that they were in the auction the same as any one else, so why are we seeing Google Premier Sponsored Listing
You can clearly see it’s marked Sponsored Link in my mind that means one thing and only one thing, no auction just a fixed price maybe, or a CPM deal. Whatever it is this could be a game changer, of course Google may have just given up competing with us mortals and decided that they want the number one slot.
rishil 623 days ago
http://explicitly.mePretty much bollocks. They are cheating now.
Ed Hall 623 days ago
http://www.buydigitaltv.co.ukYup, that’s wrong diddly wrong! I’d much prefer it if they focused on ensuring neutrality here and instead put their energy into seed-funding the next big thing that is going make our mere mortal lives that little bit more bearable!
Chris Campbell 623 days ago
http://www.lakeshorebranding.comIt looks like they are entering several markets now, here is an example from mortgage vertical- http://graywolf.posterous.com/new-mortgage-compare-ad
Gary Garside 623 days ago
http://www.sellmymobile.comI don’t believe they paid a penny at all for that listing Dave. Resizing the browser window to a smaller preset now shows 1-2 SERP listings.
CompareAndSave must be fuming. Out pay MSM and get walked over by the big green Google machine.
Ben Rush 623 days ago
http://www.clickitseo.co.ukWell as much as I hate what they’re doing obviously they are entitled to utilise their own properties in any way they choose. Ultimately advertisers might whine, but so long as Google continue to dominate the market they have a captive audience in their advertisers.
Its a shame that Google have become so obsessed with finding more and more ways to monetize their search results, they are in serious danger of turning users away, but that the nature of business – make money….now make some more money.
Thomas Barker 623 days ago
The first natural listing in your example is the 11th link on the page making it unfair for pretty much everybody. Its a shame but you cant really blame them
harvey 623 days ago
I don’t have a problem with google circumventing the auction with their own ads in circumstances where they don’t stand to generate significant revenue directly off the back of it but…
This link takes users to credit card comparison engine which is an entirely different auction based on CPA and is a blatant attempt to increase the popularity of one of their specialist search products and a particularly lucrative one at that.
Bad Google!
Jason 621 days ago
http://www.allapparel.bizGoogle is in the money making business – they will do it any way they can.
Phill Ohren 621 days ago
http://phill.coI’m not surprised they are doing this. Remember, Google is the biggest advertising company in the world…. all they really care about is turnover and figures.
Its a business case for them to include one more sponsored result. Pushing organic down even further. I will be blogging about this later on, I think title will be along the lines of “Where did organic search go?” lol
Phil
Arjun Sandhu 615 days ago
http://www.modulussystems.comThis is definitely unfair and they’ll not gain much respect doing this kind of s**t.
India Tour Packeges 566 days ago
http://www.maketripindia.comCan anyone say class action lawsuit?