Does Overture Bidding Affect Yahoo Search Results?

[wchan07]

I have a site that I work with that happens to be using overture to bid on key words. If I bid on keywords will that affect my yahoo searches?

For example let's say i am a pet store website and I will naturally show up top 10 for the word "dog collar"

Will advertising / bidding for "dog collar" in overture mess up my ranking?

I am asking because my site does not show up at all for any of several dozen key word searchs in yahoo. i am okay on google and msn. i have good quality inbound links. I happen to also advertise a lot on overture and am wondering if i am being filtered because of my participation in bidding for keywords.

I have not found anything on this topic so if some with experience in working with overture can shed light that would be great.

I think it is possible for yahoo to write a filtering algo to get rid of overture bidders from their searches. It might make them more money. not sure if that is what is happening with me.

Thanks

[martinibuster]

Has never hurt my rankings.

[wchan07]

hey thanks just didn't have enough info to make a determination guess i have to go back to optimizing then.

[sid560]

My associate thinks it does. He thinks that is the reason we were kicked out of Yahoo searches. We spend $600 a month and he says they are not going to let us back in while we spend that kind of money. I would hate to think that is the reason but stranger things have happen. In October we plan to put these paid searches on hold and stop the program for a while to see if we get back in Yahoo searches.

[martinibuster]

>>>My associate thinks it does.

It's a convenient excuse.

I'll repeat: Overture PPC has not harmed my rankings. Even in the current Yahoo my O PPCd sites are ranked number one for their important keyword phrases.

[ScottG13]

I don't think it does. We're all over Yahoo naturally and via Overture.

Just an excuse. And it would be counter productive to sabatoge a major revenue stream by punishing them from another side of the business.

[ska_demon]

We spend $600 a month

I know people that spend more than that per day and have excellent rankings. $600 really is nothing ;oP A lot of people have been kicked out of Y searches as a result of the most update. Your associate isn't the SEO is he?

Ska

[430cc]

I agree, Yahoo pay per click inclusion will not affect your search results. It seems to me the most recent update dumped quite a few sites, but it appears these sites are slowly getting re-indexed.

[webhound]

PPC and organic are not related. Bidding in PPC will not effect your rankings - it's Yahoo's bad algo you have to look at.