Hey, so have I, and I'm not agreeing with the statement itself. But it is obvious that the person who opened this topic knew perfectly well what is the common knowledge. By the way, it's also common knowledge that selling/buying links is against the Google TOS. What is Yahoo doing with it's directory?
nice conspiracy theory, but it usually thought that Google actually dampens AdWords users organic search results to stimulate them spending more.
How are you "testing" this theory of your? Are you analyzing the backlinks on these sites of yours? What I am getting for this one example that I used is close to a thousand backlinks showing linking to this site. The only connection from that backlink to this example site is their adword link-PERIOD. Do an analysis on your own using a backlink program. I want to hear from those who have done an in-depth analysis, not just saying it doesn't work. From what I see-it is the reason.
maleenhancement, can you provide genuine examples, wit the URLS? I understand if you can't of course.
that s a nice Google conspiracy theory I ve never seen anything proving this adwords theory to be true
I'd say you're the one with the theory. AdWords ads (even when served as Adsense) don't count as backlinks on any major search engine.
And one thing that should be ruled out for the sake of it, is that the links themselves can't technically benefit you in any way due to the format itself. They have the same effect as a javascript redirect URL.