Me, I think some keywords will suck now but I can put more resources elsewhere so in the end it will work out about even.
I remember this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...] and a comment from a certain Google employee :)
sad to see it go.
but hey, lets move on and see what 2004 holds for us.
Shak
If you hadn't told the world what a great deal it was, Google might not have noticed!
Damn!
We never had a premium listing. Our biggest client was willing to pay big bucks, whatever it took to get the premium spot, but Google refused to talk to us when they found out what keywords we were interested in. Maybe they had a long term contract with a competitor. Eliminating the program makes things fairer.
I am crying about the end of Premium.
Now the playing field is leveled and I'm going to love it.
I agree. I think it'll level things out a bit, and make the serps cleaner.
To the surfer it won't look any different. How can it be cleaner?
absolutely correct.
I keep wondering whether people are thinking that the 2 top spots will dissapear completely :)
for the record, all that is happening is the 2 top spots will NO longer be sold on a CPM basis and will simply be replaced by Adwords from the right hand side instead.
Shak
We still cannot get exact match one worders with no competition up top, even though they have strong CTRs, etc.
Happy New year!
-c
I keep wondering whether people are thinking that the 2 top spots will dissapear completely
Oh, darn. They should, though.
