Marking Ads As Ads
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In marking paid ads as "advertisement" for the sake of Google organic, if you have a block of small ads, do you have to mark each and every one as an advertisement?
For instance, let's say you have a block of small ads in the right column... mark each one or just at the top or what?
Thanks!
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Hi Kate,
Yes, my whole concern is organic and running afoul of their ad guidelines for organic's sake.
Thanks! Best... Mike
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I am hesitant to saying you just need one as I don't know the layout of your page. As long as the ads are clearly marked as ads and are in no way deceptive, you should be fine. If there is too much space between them, you'd need to mark each one. But if they are all in a marked box together, you should be fine with one.
For organic traffic sake, the same thing goes. Make sure there is no confusion as to what is an ad and what isn't. Use your gut,
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Yes, can I mark a whole block of ads as "advertisement" or does each individual ad need to be marked?
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Do you mean you are serving ads on your own site from the Google Ad Network? And you want to know how to mark those as ads on your own site?
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