Multiple affiliate ads.

Bug? or is Google testing multiple affiliate ad pages?

[jim2003]

In doing a search this morning, I searched for a product and saw multiple affiliate ads for the same destination appearing. When I refresed non multiple results appeared? Anyone care to speculate on whether this is a bug, or if Google is re-evaluating and running tests to compare searcher behavior?

Regards,

[arran]

There are still workarounds including capitalisation (Ebay.com versus ebay.com) and domain extensions (ebay.com versus ebay.co.uk).
This is probably what you are seeing.

[jim2003]

Hello,

Definitely not workarounds. I have my preferences set to 50 listings, and on this page there were 15 ads to the same landing URL. I looked pretty carefully, and the display URL's were identical for at least 10 of them. Even if some were do to the "work arounds" you identified, then I don't think they would have disappeared when I refreshed.

Regards.

[inasisi]

Even I have seen this once in a while. I guess Google is doing it's split testing as usual.

Would be interesting to see whether they would go back to the old setup. Depends on how much of an impact this new rule had on their bottom line.

[AdWordsAdvisor]

I wonder if this could have to do with cached pages?

I'm not aware of any such testing, BTW - but then there is no rule, written or otherwise, that says I must be informed!

AWA now considering such a rule...

[jim2003]

Hello,

AWA, if you mean cached pages on my PC. No chance. If you are refering to pages cached in the Google system somewhere, than I have no idea.

Regards,