Does Google Pay Me For Their Own Ads?

Here's my take, I could be wrong. Just my own
research.

If google is displaying their own product ads, it
may be because you are logged in, they know
you are looking for online income, SEO, etc.

If the ads are shown, yes, they will pay you for
a click. How much is the question. If there are
other ads on the page besides google's, then
google must be paying on par or above what
these bidders are paying.

If there are no other ads, it means there are bidders,
but google does not display ads below a certain
bid. They will display their own. Adwords users
can get frustrated in this, but there is a minimum
bid on many sites and keywords. Sometimes
the minimum bid is a secret. Google does not
disclose a lot of stuff because they want to protect
trade secrets.

Even so, google still must determine that your site
is worth putting their own ads on. That's the
main point of the above, even though it's a little
hard to follow. Ergo, they must pay. Each site
and circumstance is different. No two sites will
garner the same CPC.

The bad thing would be just a blank space. That
means google has no ads for you, nor will they
waste their time putting their own stuff.

So, google serving their own programs is at least
a sign that your site is not getting anything.

You can block google.com. youtube.com, etc.

I try and block as little as possible.

If google is serving it's own ads for their stuff on
your site, they have a good reason, or, your
site has little content triggers for multiple bids.

Paul

As far as I know, Google buys and displays Adwords ads. In effect, they buy from themselves. The cynical will say they don't actually spend money. What likely happens is that money is moved from one department to another. That makes business sense (as well for tax purposes) and lots of businesses do this sort of thing, probably all large businesses do this.

So since they are buying ads, you get the money when someone clicks.

The reason for their ads showing up on your site is simply because they are the best and most profitable ones. Their quality is higher. It's also likely you visited their site and being remarketed to. Your other visitors probably see different ads. The cynics will say they use this opportunity to promote themselves for free. But as said above, it makes more business sense to pay and there's no indication they don't or manipulate the system.

If your seeing Google advertising itself, that's a problem, If your not logged in (like paul was saying).

Googles own Ads are the equivalent to the old PSA that Google used to run ($0.01 - $0.00 CPC).