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Google Testing Individual Hotel Booking Block at Top of Search Results

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hotel-ad-block-topGoogle is testing a new format for hotel searchers.  Instead of listing the booking deals in the knowledge panel, Google is testing them in a separate area where the AdWords ads are normally positioned at the top of the search results.  AdWords ads still appear, but under the hotel block.

Dr. Pete Meyers shared the following screenshot.

google-hotel-test

It is nice for advertisers that it doesn’t remove the regular AdWords ads from the top of the search results.  However, it could possibly be reducing the number of ads at the top so that the organic isn’t pushed down too far on the page.  This is a pretty competitive search market, although there is only one ad at the top.

Here is how this same search normally appears, with the hotel booking ad block within the right side knowledge panel like usual.

google-hotel-usual

With the recent addition of Google Trips, it has sparked a ton of tests in the travel related search results.

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