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If having adsense ads reduced your search traffic, sites would just use some other ad service. Would you want to remove all sites using advertising of any kind?
by netcan 17y ago
If having adsense ads reduced your search traffic, sites would just use some other ad service. Would you want to remove all sites using advertising of any kind? "Google bans advertising on all sites other than Google."
- jacquesm 17y agoI think that is mostly a matter of degree. You could conceivably make it switchable so that you only cut out certain advertising networks. MFA seems to be by far the larger part of the problem, possibly other ad networks would see an increase but nobody has the advertiser volume required for that other than adsense. Of course the final outcome of something like that remains to be seen but I'm fairly sure it would be a net positive. And they could always default it to 'off'.
- stcredzero 17y agoGoogle could develop some kind of metric for "too many ads" on a page. Just getting the "O" in SEO to mean some sort of moderation would be a kind fo victory.
- netcan 17y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they do, or at least have considered it. The problem is that would be undermining other businesses with advertising based business models, their direct & indirect competitors. Google don't want to send you to made-for-adsense sites. These account for a tiny portion of their income while degrading both their search results & their advertising offering. Google' two primary concerns.