Could pay per click be bringing my rank down?

duplicate search results considered spam?

[zootreeves]

I recently started a pay per click advertising campaign on example.com, but could this be bringing my rank down on google?

When I do a search for mysite.com google finds 100's of search pages with my pay per click listing on. The trouble is the titles of my listings are all the same, could this be considered spamming by google?

[edited by: Marcia at 7:45 pm (utc) on Feb. 16, 2004]
[edit reason] Examplified. [/edit]

[Marcia]

Good question, because there are also people who list themselves with "coupon sites" and such and their site name will appear in the URL and in the title oftentimes. And those do show up when digging in to see what's in the index, so I've wondering if there's an impact in some way or another.

How are you turning up on the PPC pages? Is there any duplication of what's on your site?

[Shak]

NO.

whats happening is that Google is spidering all the PPC engines partner sites and seeing your title, description and url.

99.999999% of these sites will not be allowing to follow through of url/link by googlebot, as it will be a redirect etc etc

I wouldnt worry about this being the cause...

Shak

[bekyed]

We advertise on pay per click engines and use a robots text to keep google out as there are several duplications of our home page.

Bek.