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Deleted campaign and site shot up the serps

         

sonic10

4:29 pm on Sep 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I don't know if this is a fluke or release of one of my sites from the so called 'sandbox'.

What happened: This particular site was added to the google index back in late June. For months it has been no where to be found in google with my keywords even though I do have dozens of nice backlinks for this site. Last Friday I decided that I had given google enough of my cash for this adwords campaign so I deleted it. The site is well listed in Yahoo so I figured the heck with google. However last night my site appeared in the #9 slot for my target keyword phrase on google and holding steady today. Probably just a coincidence but makes me wonder if google monitors/calculates a relationship with new sites, adwords and serp positioning. You know like the site is surpressed from rankings while paying adword campaigns.

Anyone else seen this happen?

diamondgrl

4:36 pm on Sep 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

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i strongly doubt that google would provide a disincentive to pay them. sure, they may have enough integrity not to boost your rating just because you use adwords but doing the opposite would make even less sense.

sonic10

4:47 pm on Sep 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Yeah, I'm sure it's nothing to do with the adwords database effecting the serps but it just seems kinda odd all these months I've been running adword campaigns waiting for this site to show in the serps and the week after I kill the campaigns it pops into the results. I'm happy, I just hope the ranking sticks.

AdWordsAdvisor

6:36 pm on Sep 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Probably just a coincidence but makes me wonder if google monitors/calculates a relationship with new sites, adwords and serp positioning.

I subscribe to the coincidence theory, myself. :)

In my two plus years with AdWords, I've heard of similar instances maybe a dozen or so times - sometimes with the site in the SERPs skyrocketing, and sometimes with it plummeting. Sometimes the site appears for the very first time, and sometimes it disappears for the first time.

I really think it amounts to a numbers game. With roughly 4,285,199,774 pages in the SERPs - and many tens of thousands of advertisers in AdWords, there are bound to be coincidental intersections between the two.

Probably just the Universe's way of keeping life interesting. ;)

AWA