Will google remove competitors to help ad sales?

If top rank hurts ad sales will you get moved?

[DocElder]

Hello,
If you sell better widgets for 1/3 the price of what others are selling widgets, would google remove the less expensive items from the search results to encourage ad word sales.

I have noticed that some pages for keywords have no cached results and they are not new sites. These would appear to have been placed there. Also some less expensive competitors removed.

Is this just a fluke with my keywords or have other people noticed similar results?

Thanks,
DocElder

[BriGuy]

Doc:

My guess is that Google doesn't PROACTIVELY remove competitors, but if a better deal comes along, their CTR will likely drop significantly. Since a low CTR means a pulled ad, this might be why your competitors suddenly dried up. :)

I'm definitely hoping I can squeeze out a few competitors on some of my keywords.

[hannamyluv]

The SERPs and the adwords have no connection to each other. There are many reasons a site might not show up in the SERPs but google would not risk tarnishing their image as an unbiased search engine to further the adwords program.

I do know for a fact that adwords will not remove the lower priced competitor in adwords. (I tend to be the lower priced competitor :) ) The thing that normally happens is that the ad gets a higher CTR and rises to the top of the adwords results.

The only thing you might want to be careful of is if you are reselling. If you are competing against the manufacture at a lower price point, they can pull a trademark complaint and have your ad pulled.