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Google Will Label Search Results As Sponsored If They Link To Commercial Queries

Article Website:
Search Engine Roundtable
Article Author:
barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
Article URL:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-sponsored-labels-commercial-39328.html

Back in February, I reported about this unusual Google Search ad format for people also considered sponsored results. They did not look like ads, but they were labeled sponsored. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, confirmed these are a sponsored ads experiment, but clicking on them do not result in a charge. They are labeled as sponsored only because they go to more commercial queries.