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Re: We sell advertising, not search results

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Start and maintain a $100/month adwords account, and magically, one's domain gets free SEO (moving up in ancillary search results) --> every S.E.O advice on the internet openly states this.

Is this true? It seems plausible, but by the same token also seems like the kind of protip that isn't actually true.

Someone with deeper pockets and some free time could test this I suppose: Start 6 blogs with mediocre content - the goal being to avoid getting organic links from other websites. Buy $100/mo/site of AdWords for 6 months. And then measure which one performs better in searches.

Re: We sell advertising, not search results

#8

Start and maintain a $100/month adwords account, and magically, one's domain gets free SEO (moving up in ancillary search results) --> every S.E.O advice on the internet openly states this.

Is this true? It seems plausible, but by the same token also seems like the kind of protip that isn't actually true. Someone with deeper pockets and some free time could test this I suppose: Start 6 blogs with mediocre content - the goal being to avoid getting organic links from other websites. Buy $100/mo/site of AdWords for 6 months. And then measure which one performs better in searches.

Top SEO strategy advice sites often carry this kind of advice: https://moz.com/blog/how-google-adwords-ppc-affects-organic-...