I smell a rat

[ratboy]

Anyone else noticed, and I've seen this a few times now, you start an adwords campaign, and suddenly the page you have the ad directing to goes up the organic rankings...

Happened a few times now, coincidence?

 

[retired_member33]

I have never heard of this, I have heard people saying the opposite in the past but never really noticed any changes in my own rankings, with or without Adwords.



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[Blossom]

Have you tested it with a proxy?

 

[ratboy]

No. I might be dillusional.

 

[mat]

Could this be something to do with customized search results being enabled?

 

[philiporchard]

Maybe this is the rat you can smell...

In today's news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-14109561

 

[Skinner]

I noticed the customised results lead me up the garden path a few times.

However incognito mode shows quite the opposite effect more often than nothing at all.

 

[DF3000]

I would definetely log out of Google and then search again

The customised results often make me look like an SEO Genius... until I log out and see what everyone does

 

[Frog]

You don't need to log out to see what everyone else sees btw... just add &pws=0 onto the end of the Google url once you've entered your search.

 

[diy-day]

You could also try your query in a browser in which you don't routinely sign into Google (one of the reasons I have multiple browsers installed).