Does having google ads increase traffic??

[ciarac]

An SEO friend of mine told me that just putting google adsense onto your website actually increases traffic, or rather, google favours you because of the fact that you have those ads.
It there truth in this?
Has anyone noticed their search engine positioning go up after putting up google ads?

[Tubby]

"It there truth in this?"

.................................................. .NO!

[ciarac]

How about IS there truth in this?

[Tubby]

'How about IS there truth in this?'

I never noticed the typo. . but the answer is still NO!

[mjancosek]

Probably in the early days it did help. The only thing really nice about adsense is that you may generate some extra income on the side for nothing.

[danlefree]

Probably in the early days it did help. The only thing really nice about adsense is that you may generate some extra income on the side for nothing.

If you consider selling out your potential advertising revenue to Google to be "nothing", you're probably not getting much to begin with

[pauliii]

I think the answer is yes. Aside from what Google may do, finding which keywords and topics draw interest is a measurement of which parts of your site attract interest. While you can certainly get stats by other methods, I find the stats from the ads more valuable.

I also have a hard time believing that Google is pure at heart and that their rankings are totally devoid of favorable bias toward advertisers . . . All else being equal, it would only make sense that Google boost the rankings of pages carrying their ads.

[incrediblehelp]

I also have a hard time believing that Google is pure at heart and that their rankings are totally devoid of favorable bias toward advertisers . . . All else being equal, it would only make sense that Google boost the rankings of pages carrying their ads.

Please prove it, otherwise the answer is no.

[Orion]

Since I've added them to sites there's been 0 benefit to ranking or traffic... minor benefit on low content-volume pages as it lends filler.

The only benefit is that visitors to the site(s) click on them sometimes and when they do I get $ for it.

[janeth]

I think the answer is yes.

The answer is no.