Can Adwords budget affect SERP's?

[tonynoriega]

Im a little suspicious to this recent string of events....

Over the past months...couldnt break #3 in the SERPS....yeah, did a some optimizing...

but does anyone think that increasing our daily budget in Adwords could have affected our rank....becuase now im a solid #2..!

i think yes....

anyone see this result from an increased adwords budget?

[tedster]

Lots of people have been suspicious, but Google says absolutely no -- and I believe them. It would be disastrous long term for their business mode to monkey with the organic SERPs in this way.

[jakegotmail]

no

[BigDave]

Funny how there are at least as many people that get suspicious that when they increase their budgets, google drops them in the SERPs so that google gets more money.

I find both ideas ridiculous.

[sem4u]

I see absolutely no truth in this whatsoever.