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by mysterypie 1352 days ago
> long suspected that google would rank sites with Adsense higher than a website without

Google says that they don't do that. I don't believe Google based on personal experience and it's interesting to see that you had some experimental confirmation.

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It is definitely hard to compare one site ranking vs another and definitively conclude that AdSense made one rank higher than just Analytics, but in every case AdSense+Analytics sites correlated with a better ranking/.
Wouldn't another possibility simply be that that sites which invest in those 2 technologies also invest in SEO?
All of the cases were sites that were doing SEO (on- and off-site). There were lots of differences between them, so never an apples to apples, but Analytics + AdSense > AdSense only > Analytics only.

It was very compelling results. Never did a GA ONLY site improve better than an AS only or an AS + GA.