Reply #13: Yes they do [View All]

[sandnsea]

I know they do because I've done far too many backlink checks and found google ads to be the source of backlinks. Try it yourself.

Yes one can certainly get a highly targeted, and rarely searched, number one place in google. But that's not what I'm talking about. You can be #1 because you're a trusted site and have been in that spot for years. I've got some of those.

Let's do something totally random, like 2010 Ford Mustang. Now why does the Ford corporate site come up #1? Do you seriously believe it's just because it gets lots of links, and no other auto site or auto dealer has more?? Come On. Get Real. They're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to Google for all kinds of advertising, and you can damn well bet the algorithm is set to recognize that fact.

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One more thing. They *do* manually manage web sites. Ask anybody who has had a site kicked out of google unfairly. There's only one way to get it back in and that's for somebody to manually kick it back in. At the same time, they attach the keywords and key placements that the site had before the boot.

Google Lies.