Paid Search Listings are appearing in Organic

Paid Listings showing up in Google Organically

[shortshire]

Hello Everyone,

A problem was brought to my attention yesterday with a one of our paid listings showed up in the organic listing. We rank second for the key term on the first page, organically. We know that Google recently changed the organic listings and we are sure that is screwing up our listing. Has anyone else had or seen similar problems with the organic rankings showing your paid listings?

[netmeg]

Only if somehow a content page gets spidered while it has one of my ads on it. Where in the serps did you see this? Just like a normal listing, or was it on some other site, like a parked domain?

[shortshire]

I saw it in the normal listings. Went to Google and typed in a word and saw the paid listing in the organic results.

[jimbeetle]

What exactly is showing up in the organic SERPs? Is it your landing page? A page from another site with the ad on it?

[shortshire]

Our landing page

[jimbeetle]

Oh, then in robots.txt disallow all bots except AdsBot-Google from your landing page.

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /landing.page

[shortshire]

Does this specifically remove the ad-bot from spidering the page or all of google's bots from coming to the page.

[jimbeetle]

It allows AdsBot-Google to spider the page and disallows any other bots (that obey robots.txt).

Alternatively, you can disallow all bots, as in that instance AdsBot-Google is supposed to ignore [adwords.google.com] the User-agent: *. I usually like to spell things out though, so I like the implicit allow for Ads-Bot-Google and explicit disallow for all others.