Adding Google ads lowers search visibility?

[apprentice]

Well, we had a few product pages that seemed to be showing very high in google searches, driving a lot of traffic to our site, so I put Google Adwords ads on them. Now they have dropped to page two or three, over night. Do you think the ads caused those pages to be lowered in search results? That was the only change I made.

Thanks,
Mike

[apprentice]

I don't want to post the page in question here but will be happy to PM it to anyone interested.

[Car Guy]

I don't think your Google Ads have anything to do with it. Coincidence.

Search results go up and down all the time. Your search may have gone to a different data center, competition may have changed, Google may have found somebody else's content more relevant.

I see that at least one of your pages has duplicate content. If the page in question does, then that may explain at least some of it.

Richard

[apprentice]

Originally Posted by Car Guy

I don't think your Google Ads have anything to do with it. Coincidence.

Search results go up and down all the time. Your search may have gone to a different data center, competition may have changed, Google may have found somebody else's content more relevant.

Richard

You are probably right. . . . and I am probably just superstitious =)

[DSL Guy]

you mean adsense code? adwords is when you bid on keywords. adsense lets you display ads and get paid per click.

I would suspect adding the javascript will dilute the previous keyword saturation some. the change in content would not go unnoticed by google or any other algorythem.

[Car Guy]

Ad Words or Ad Sense wouldn't add keywords, it's just code.

[apprentice]

Originally Posted by DSL Guy

you mean adsense code? adwords is when you bid on keywords. adsense lets you display ads and get paid per click.

I would suspect adding the javascript will dilute the previous keyword saturation some. the change in content would not go unnoticed by google or any other algorythem.

Yes, I mean adsense

[DSL Guy]

Originally Posted by Car Guy

Ad Words or Ad Sense wouldn't add keywords, it's just code.

once upon a time - i checked a web page of mine for keyword saturation levels of specific keywords. i was using statcounter js to track the page. the term "var" showed up as a term. it was in the sc script 3 times.

so yes i must disagree that javascript does nothing to your page content wrt key word saturation. it may not affect it much but it may also depend on what is in the code and is it getting detected as text content.

[Car Guy]

Yes, Ad Sense

These are ads that you show on your site.

I don't think the "ad content" of the ads would be counted as they are javascript. Bots don't read java.

[webado]

Originally Posted by DSL Guy

once upon a time - i checked a web page of mine for keyword saturation levels of specific keywords. i was using statcounter js to track the page. the term "var" showed up as a term. it was in the sc script 3 times.

so yes i must disagree that javascript does nothing to your page content wrt key word saturation. it may not affect it much but it may also depend on what is in the code and is it getting detected as text content.

Javascript code stays inside javascript.

Either you use a crappy checker or you screwed up the code