

Surely the people paying for the ads wouldn’t like this! Google also benefits – it’s their ad network, they allow these ads to be loaded like this – even if it provides a bad experience for the users. Unfortunately, this is only a problem for the users.įor the content publisher – this will be working well for them – they’re getting people referred by Google, staying on the website, and plenty of ad units displayed.

OK – we’ve now got our recipe and can start cooking. Problem 4: auto-refresh ads and data usage Note how long the scroll bar is – showing how much content there is, other than the recipe! Strangely, for recipe websites, this means people write their life story and load up useless stock images – making the recipe almost impossible to find.įor this website, you find the recipe half way down the page, after the authors pondering on how much they like breakfast and several stock images of pancakes.Īnd even then – the recipe is surrounded by even more ads. This website has an ad placed between every paragraph and image – interrupting the flow of content and making it hard to see what is an ad and what is content.Ī trend in SEO has been “long form content” – the idea that you need a certain amount of content for Google to recommend your website. I understand websites need to make money to run – and ads are an important part of this – but what we see now is more ads than content. Unfortunately, this is fairly common – so I quickly find my way around closing each.

