Google is now displaying three sponsored listings above the SERPS.

It will be interesting to see how this affects the traffic for the organic listings. It's getting crowded at the top. Now the searchers will have to get past the three sponsored listings and then the local listings before seeing the organic results.

I am not sure if this is permanent, the FAQ for AdWords still says that only the top two listings will appear above the SERPs.

"On Google search results pages, the highest ranking AdWords ads appear in the top two positions, just above the search results."

I don't know about you... but I don't like it one bit.

That sucks.

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Marc Rasmussen
Michael Saunders and Company

Sarasota Real Estate

How many of you do actually click on the sponsored links?

I for one have a condition called "advanced banner blindness" [which also makes it incredibly hard to see sponsored links... ]

Of course, we are not what one would call regular users, but still, I know that many of my clients just naturally skip past the sponsored links and scroll down to the "real" links...

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Tom Steenhuysen
graphics communication consultant
www.betawave.us

Latest real estate web development project :
Charleston Real Estate Network

I agree, I never look.

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Unfortuantely, most of the uneducated don't know that there is a difference I wonder how long it will be before half the page is filled with sponsored searches?

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In a way that day is already here and then some for many. On a 800*600 screen resolution the entire screen is taken up by the 3 ads and the local results near.... Just the first line of the link to the first result shows.

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My thoughts on the Sarasota Association of REALTORS actions.