The Adwords Jinx

Is the fix in?

[GoodLegalAdvice]

Approximately 6 months ago I started using google adwords to increase trafic to my website. At the time my site was ranked extremely well for its most popular keyword phrases, but I thought by using adwords I could pick up those keyword phrases I was not ranking well for. Slowly but surely since that time I have lost all of my previous good rankings and have been forced to use adwords to make up for the lost traffic. I am not in a particularly competitive market and all keywords are for local searches (state, city, ect..), and I have made no other major changes to the site. In addition I still have top rankings in Yahoo, and MSN and am #1 for my business name in google. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Am I just being paranoid?

[AdWordsAdvisor]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, GoodLegalAdvice1

I just spotted this email - missed it before somehow.

In my experience, when you have 8 billion or so web pages and tens of thousands of advertisers, this sort of thing is bound to coincidentally happen from time to time.

But I assure you, the two things are not related. AdWords is entirely independent from the search results, and vice-versa.

(And, as I see you're new to the Forum, I'll just mention that I've worked for AdWords for just a few weeks shy of three years.)

AWA

[Shak]

I just spotted this email - missed it before somehow.

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email, u got someone else reading the forum and emailing you now?

you that busy :)

Shak

[AdWordsAdvisor]

email, u got someone else reading the forum and emailing you now?

you that busy :)

Oh my. I must have a worse case of tired-brain than I thought!

(I'd just been scanning a bunch o' emails for trends, before coming to WebmasterWorld - must not have fully shifted gears...)

Nice to see your name here, Shak. Hope you are well!

And thanks for the laugh. ;)

AWA