Will my PR drop now I have stopped using adwords

[ByronM]

I have been working pretty hard to get some content up and get indexed. Just the other day i noticed my site had a PR level 6, and its only 1 month old.

My only concern is i had spent a few hundred in adwords and my ads showed up on hundreds of sites relevent to my theme. Now that i'm not running that campaign (fairly costly) will my PR rating drop through the roof or does google exclude its own adwords links from ranking your site? (it seems as it should as that would be unfair to rank your site based on $$$ instead of content.

Thanks!

[Michael Anthony]

Welcome to Webmasterworld, ByronM.

Adwords spend has nothing to do with PR. PR is also pretty worthless unless it gets you where you want in the SERPS, in which case it's super valuable.

[RedWolf]

I think ByronM may be refering to Adwords links from Content and Adsense partners to his site is increasing his PageRank. If this is so, then it is an interesting thing and could put content ads into a whole new light as far as ROI. I just checked though a lot of my pages and some of the internal ones are showing a higher PR than they did a few months ago, but this could just be a coincidence.

[Shak]

NO pr from adwords ads is passed, none what so ever.

Shak

[ByronM]

I'm still confused though. Litterally my site is only 1 month and a few days old. I've done work on keyword targeting and i'm on page 1 for many keywords already and page 3 for many more.

What got me IN the index as far as i can tell was using adwords. I setup nearly 2,500 keywords of every variation of products that people would discuss and i quickly did a search for what sites include the word of my site and saw nearly 11 pages for what included my domain.

*IF* these are excluded, wouldn't google know to not index adsense adverts where my adwords are coming up as a valid link back to my site or is google just doing so much deep indexing its an added bonus but hardly relevent to getting more inbound links and higher PR?

Believe me, it was cheaper to pay what i did for adwords to get inclusion and that many links that quick. It certaintly seems to have gotten googlebot to give me more visits as i see nearly daily updates when i make changes to optimize my pages. Is that a benefit of having a moderate PR, clean HTML and doing my homework to get links from busy sites back and forth and building site maps and such?

thanks!

[anallawalla]

Absolutely no effect. I dropped all PPC for one company's ads and it has made no difference to the home page PR or its SERP ranking. The only difference is that the number of visits has dropped. :)

[yowza]

My client has two sites for which we have been advertising with Adwords for six months. No SEO and no backlinks.

PR is still at 0 with only the homepage of both sites indexed. Backlinks caused by Adwords sometimes show up in ATW or Ink, but obviously are not affecting my Google PR.

Adwords and Search Results obviously don't affect each other.

[FromRocky]

How can I read my PR level? Please, tell me this stupid question!

[ncw164x]

Install the google toolbar, it is integrated into this

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