{"id":39641,"date":"2016-02-25T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/?p=39641"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:59:04","slug":"how-google-removing-right-side-ads-effects-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/how-google-removing-right-side-ads-effects-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google Removing Right-Side Ads from SERPs Affects Organic SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"
Are you interested in hearing directly from Google reps how the change will affect organic click-through? Us too. It’s a topic sure to be discussed at SMX West, where Googlers will be taking the stage and answering questions posed by Danny Sullivan and SEOs. Subscribe to the blog for email updates of our liveblog coverage of the event taking place all next week.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Late last week, Google announced that they were dramatically changing the layout of their SERPs by removing right-side ads from the page. At the same time, they added an extra ad to the top of the fold for \u201chighly commercial queries\u201d and three text ads to the bottom of the SERPs. This eliminates the number of paid ads for certain types of SERPs from as many as 11 to a maximum of seven.<\/p>\n
There has been much speculation on what impact this will have in the PPC world, but what do these changes mean for SEOs who are more concerned with organic rankings?<\/p>\n
Should SEOs be changing their tactics in light of the SERP shakeup? Or is it business as usual? There certainly seems to be a general consensus that organic SEO is the loser with all of these changes, but I\u2019m not so sure that that is the case.<\/p>\n