{"id":12883,"date":"2025-04-30T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/google-may-label-search-results-as-sponsored-if-they-link-to-commercial-queries\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:46:15","slug":"google-may-label-search-results-as-sponsored-if-they-link-to-commercial-queries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/google-may-label-search-results-as-sponsored-if-they-link-to-commercial-queries\/","title":{"rendered":"Google May Label Search Results As Sponsored If They Link To Commercial Queries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, I reported about this unusual Google Search ad format for people also considered sponsored results.  They did not look like ads, but they were labeled sponsored. Ginny Marvin, Google&#8217;s Ads Liaison, confirmed these are a sponsored ads experiment, but clicking on them do not result in a charge. They are labeled as sponsored only because they go to more commercial queries.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, I reported about this unusual Google Search ad format for people also considered sponsored results. They did not look like ads, but they were labeled sponsored. Ginny Marvin, Google&#8217;s Ads Liaison, confirmed these are a sponsored ads experiment, but clicking on them do not result in a charge. They are labeled as sponsored only because they go to more commercial queries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-roundtable"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}