Overture and SE Rank?

Will it help?

[victoryrun]

I have a community portal site for horse folks. I'm not placing very high for my two top keywords (#209 on Yahoo). My goal is to be in the top 10 for Keyword Keyword but I know that will take time. I have used Overture in the past and am considering doing it again. What effect does this have on my rank? Will being placed at the top of the page for Keyword Keyword thus increase my Yahoo # once I'm DONE with Overture? If it won't I may not even bother...

Thanks!
VR

[Shak]

overture paid listings have NO effect on your natural listings what so ever

Shak

[victoryrun]

So if I pay for Keyword Keyword for the next 6 months, and continue to optimize my site and my search engine rank (thru content and backlinks and other SEO stuff), theoretically if I drop my Overture account at the end of 6 months, my site should move up? (note I said theoretically!)

VR

[WebDon]

As I understand it, they are really two different things.

Right now your natural listing isn't where you need it to be so go ahead and do a paid listing to be sure you have the visibility.

At the same time continue to work on your site to improve the natural listing. When your natural listing is where you want it you can turn off the paid listing.

[bears5122]

They are two completely seperate things.

[bhartzer]

overture paid listings have NO effect on your natural listings what so ever

That's exactly right. They use two different databases, one for paid and one for organic. There is not correlation between paid listings and your organic rankings.