Does having google ads increase traffic??

[seo4china]

Defintely no. The only thing I would think of would be that it may provide Google information of your site traffic (if you don't have GA installed or your visitors don't have the Google toolbar), which may be one of the factors included in their algorithm. But for a business site I don't think that tiny (if any) impact is worth the the trouble of inciting your visitor to leave your site against a few cents.

[davidweb]

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?

What about scraper websites built entirely to paralyse adsense revenue model ?

It is more like whether you eat cake or not, you dont get paid for it

[dbramley]

I always kinda thought it did...

Especially with a new site, putting google ad's on is a great way for google to go through all your pages for key words etc, they would be mad not to use this info as well wouldnt they?

I know I can't prove it or anything but can you prove they don't.....!?

[funda]

I don't think having Adsense will increase traffic. That is ridiculous.

But it might help in getting your site indexed faster. I can see Google Bots and Google adsense bots using my php analytics, and Adsense bots come quite frequently.

[deepsand]

All else being equal, it would only make sense that Google boost the rankings of pages carrying their ads.

Were that the case, then one would also expect that those site which display nothing other than, for example, Google AdWords listing would consistently rank at the very top in every category for which there are AdWords advertisers.

[villageloop]

I don't think having Adsense will increase traffic. That is ridiculous.

But it might help in getting your site indexed faster. I can see Google Bots and Google adsense bots using my php analytics, and Adsense bots come quite frequently.

I would have to agree that I dont think it will increase traffic.

But I am also not sure if it will get your site indexed faster.

We registered a domain last week and just set up a parked page on one of our dev servers while the site is being built out. (why give the ad revenue, no matter how small, to Godaddy?). We put a logo, "coming soon" and adsense at the bottom. No content whatsoever. (the site is not interested in SEO as it will eventually be a Neighborhood website.

Anyways, a week later, and google has not indexed the site yet.

I setup a new domain a few weeks back and submitted my sitemaps to google and it was indexed the next day (no adsense used on the site).

That is my "scientific analysis" .

[qh4dotcom]

It hasn't helped in my case

[hawash]

No bec
visitors go out of ur website when visitors the advertiser's website

And it increases the bouncing rate when they leave your frst page through the ads

[weegillis]

This very old topic is renewed in a new thread, here: Adsense may increase traffic - but not for long