Anyone Get the Feeling Quality Score is Related to Natural Search?

This new quality score seems to mirror natural search rankings.

[Lothar]

After noticing that 75% of our Google Adwords traffic went bye bye over the weekend, I started looking at the issues at hand with this new quality score... Our main site has never done all that well in Google's natural search for reasons that are completely beyond me as we have legit links from many sources, no pagerank zero, good on-page optimization, etc.

What if the new quality score takes into affect your natural search reputation? It sure seems to be the case for our site. Are there others that can confirm/deny this so we can get a general feel for this theory?

[luke175]

Nope, my PR5 shot up to $10 bids from .10

While a site that ranks high in natural search is always good I don't think it has any relation here.

In fact, I don't think that "quality" score is anything but a way to try and squeeze more money out of campaigns that were previously effective.

Quit trying to figure it out...Google is extorting you.

[idolw]

they are trying to get more money without improving their product.
users' low opinion about ads stems from content network and nonsense adsense sites full od "ads by google".
they'd better care about that.
I would really like to advertise on content network but am too poor to pay for all the non-converting clicks from MFAs.
if they improved the quality of the content network, we would all double our spendings.

[idolw]

aha. here is the quality guidelines link from google:
[adwords.google.com...]
it now says:

Google
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The requested URL /support/bin/siteguidelines.html was not found on this server.

[Lothar]

Our site is also a decent pagerank but that doesn't mean you will rank for anything. I'm just trying to see if they might be factoring reputation from natural search into Google Adwords algos. It sure seems like the sites that are left-over in the adwords results are mostly highly ranked in natural too. Coincidence?

[rbacal]

t sure seems like the sites that are left-over in the adwords results are mostly highly ranked in natural too. Coincidence?

If I was doing the algo, and if various serp data distinguished between sites I wanted and didn't want, I'd absolutely use it.

At minimum, I'd look at the rankings per keyword, but I might also consider length of time in the serp (and, btw, domain reg. date).

[aeiouy]

Nope, my PR5 shot up to $10 bids from .10

While a site that ranks high in natural search is always good I don't think it has any relation here.

In fact, I don't think that "quality" score is anything but a way to try and squeeze more money out of campaigns that were previously effective.

Quit trying to figure it out...Google is extorting you.

With that attitude you are doomed to failure with these changes.