I Paid for a Google Sponsored Listing

Did other SE's pick up those keywords?

[swampscrapper]

It seems that the keywords we paid for on Google this month have seen a dramatic increase in traffic from yahoo and msn. Is it possible that Yahoo is spidering the sponsored listings and ranking my site higher for those keywords? Seems to coincidental that yahoo would see a dramatic rise for the exact phrases that would paid for in Google.

Could it be my log analyzer is wishy-washy?

Thanks.

[johnnydequino]

Swamp - let's put it this way, not a chance. =)

jd

[nakulgoyal]

Ahhh. I never felt this could happen unles Google Adwords and Yahoo got together behind teh scenes. Absolutely impossible seems to us from the other side though.

Question is why would they do it?

[Giacomo]

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[Munster]

Swamp,

What heppens is when you do a google sponsored listing such as AdWords or Premium sponsorship Google also displays your Ad in its affiliate network, sites like Yahoo Ask Jeeves and AOL are a part of this network so unless you specified not to allow this (there is a check box saying distribute across affiliate network)I think this is what you are seeing.

Munst

P.S. Yahoo is a Directory and does not spider sites, it uses Google to do that.