Google Answers: “Do AdWords customers get special treatment in organic search results?”
Our clients often don’t understand when we tell them that participating in a PPC search advertising network like Google AdWords has no effect on their organic search results. I guess it’s understandable since their PPC ads appear on the same results page as the organic search results.
They are Two Separate Systems.
PPC ads are just that, ads from an advertising network. The only real relation is that both PPC ads and organic search results appear for the same keyword search on the same search results page and all the results are from the same search engine (Google, Bing etc).
In fact the skills required to be an expert with PPC are very different than the skills needed to improve organic search results (SEO). If you ask one our full time PPC consultants a question about organic search results they will likely not be able to answer because they know little if anything about SEO. It’s like carpenters and electricians. They both work on the same house, but each has different skills.
Google Answers
Here’s a 1.5 minute video from Google’s Matt Cutts answering a question from “an important AdWords customer” who apparently spends lots of money with Google. Recently they saw a drop in their organic listings and asked why they can’t get advice for their organic search results. Matt reiterates what Google has said repeatedly in the past –
- Why AdWords PPC customers get no boost in organic rankings.
- Why AdWords customers get no special treatment regardless of how much they spend.
View the Google Video “Do AdWords customers get
special treatment in organic search results?”
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