Apparently on some searches now Google will not allow your web pages in the search results and your Adwords ad to display simultaneously. They bump one some of the time. Somebody brought up the phenomenon a month ago but this was the first time I’ve witnessed it. The search and Ad URL’s are different but the search results page is booted as if it were a duplicate from the same domain. One result should have nothing to do with the other unless the bots are using the same information.
Bottom line is I don’t want Adwords to be competing with my web pages in the search results by bumping them out. That’s what I’m seeing now in logs. This has never happened before.
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Could you be getting a different set of results from a different data centre which have your pages in different positions? This is much more likely than Google playing with their advertisers.
I've got lots of ads and pages showing in the top 5 for each.
I guess that's why we have religion
And so do I, so what's your point. As I said originally this isn’t happening in every instance and just popped up out of the blue in site logs. It stuck out like a sore thumb. As I checked keyword after keyword the web pages were now missing but the Adword ad was there. The plain fact is the Adwords had never generated any hits for the keywords, only the web pages had. Once the web pages dissappeared the Adwords were now generating hits from lower positions. Since inception they had accumulated virtually no hits but remained active.
What definitely was even more peculiar is dozens of keywords not present in either the ad, landing page, or anywhere in the domain were now appearing in site logs. The keywords only appear in the Adword administration.
I was just asking for comments but this is strange. To me it looks like data is being compared between the search results and Adwords and one may displace another.
There has never been *any* connection between where your site is listed in the search results and your activity in AdWords.
AWA2
