Content Match count toward Link Popularity?

[Eljaybe]

If your Google ads are showing up on relevant websites through Google's Content Match network, then do those links to your site count toward link popularity? After all, that website is basically linking to your site and if they have good PR (which probably all of them in the Google network do), then shouldn't it boost your site's PR?

[europeforvisitors]

Short answer: No.

Long answer: No, because such advertising links aren't "votes" for your site--they're just paid advertising over which the linking sites have no control.