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Originally Posted by Peter (IMC)
In my opinion, you can not say that they are selling the number 1 spot. Even if studies proof that many people have no idea that some results are paid for. The fact is that they are marked as sponsored links. They are not selling positions in the organic results. You can twist it any way you like it but the fact remains that they are marked as sponsored links. And if you tell somebody that didn't know, they do not get upset. They really don't care.
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bah... Organic, Schmorganic
Remove all the paid links from the top of the SERP's and more "organic" links on that page get followed or more often. This would be fact not assumption. Those paid links directly affect the the results presented to the searcher and where they surf.
Okay Peter...
How many paid links on the top of the page that a random surfer sees first and has to scroll past, before they get to your "organic" listing don't you have a problem with?
Right now it's up to 3. How about 5? How about 10? How about 20? How about 50?
Put a hard number on it Peter.
Dave