I have some Adwords campaigns for some different sites. I did a search and my site is listed on quite a few sites because of the adwords. Does this help my search engine rankings?
only in as far as it may get you indexed quicker (as you've seen).. but if it 'helped' your rankings at all, we'd all be buying adwords !
A consistent AdWords campaign MAY affect your result rankings, but only in so far as it's another way to force crawlers to index your site or, to crawl it more often.
I would say no, but I swear it seems like everytime I buy Adwords for a page that page gets indexed organically in yahoo for the terms in the ad header.
It may get you indexed faster but it won't affect your rankings in any way. I suspect Google may even keep sites with Adwords off the front page of natural search results longer so they make more money from you, but I'm very cynical about Google and have no real evidence for this!
NO NO NO ... Adwords or Yahoo Ads Campaign wont help you in your ranking nor it will help you get indexed faster....
petjelly is absolutely right, neither adword nor adsense will help u in page ranking. Google crawls website pages separately for search results and for showing ads like in adsense. You are just getting traffic through adwords.
I seem to recall reading Matt Cutts blog or an interview with him where he said that the way the algo worked meant that sites running Adwords were getting indexed sooner. It wasn't intentional but it was happening.
All sorts of conspiracy theories out their.. I have seen arguments for both sides, their is only way one to really know though, test it for yourself.