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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by tomp on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:50AM (#11421441)
> On Google search sometimes the people who will pay for ads are sometimes a better signal than those that SEO their way to the top.

Are they?

If you have 2 products that sell for X, one company spends Y on ads and X - Y on product, the other spends X on product. It would seem that the second one should be SEOd (by good reviews and recommendations) to the top, and that would be the more important signal.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by TeMPOraL on Monday April 04, 2016 @12:48PM (#11423315)
For me an ad is a signal I don't want that product. Most of the time ads in search results are suboptimal compared to organic results anyway.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by maaku on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:22AM (#11421642)
Too simplistic a model.
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