Comments on: Live Search Is Returning Google AdWords Ads In Their Natural Search Results (Updated)

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MSN Displaying Google Adwords Ads | StepForth Web Marketing Inc. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:38:12 +0000

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Raven SEO Weekly Digest - Issue 7 « Internet Marketing Blog — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:23:15 +0000

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By: Bill Chase

Bill Chase — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:17:02 +0000

MSN is still indexing Google ads. Search for ‘maryland condos’ in MSN and find a Google ad ranked around #13 – it leads to one of the sites I work on.

By: Suresh Chowhan

Suresh Chowhan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:30:07 +0000

great research,

MSN bot ignores robots.txt

By: Jon Henshaw

Jon Henshaw — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:51:30 +0000

Michael is of course referring to this on Google’s robot.txt file:

Disallow: /pagead/

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:45:12 +0000

Yet more proof that MSN completely ignores robots.txt:

http://www.google.com/robots.txt

By: ss

ss — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:42:43 +0000

wanted to add that I've seen clicks coming through onto my blog, even after I stopped the campaign, at the rate of about 3% of the original traffic, which is small but not insignificant. The referrer is pagead.googlesyndication.com, but maybe it originated in a bad index like this one?

By: Jon Henshaw

Jon Henshaw — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:13:48 +0000

Brian, that’s exactly what I was thinking. They’re like, “damn, I thought I ended this campaign, but I keep getting traffic!”

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:12:25 +0000

I am sure http://www.discountschoolsupply.com is getting some great CTR out of that campaign!