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In the past, I've said there's no direct correlation between editorial rankings and paid advertisements. Well, it seems I was wrong. Paid search really can affect organic search. My team recently noticed this in one of our client's Google Webmaster Tools accounts. They saw instances of backlink anchor text that we knew we weren't optimizing against (not requesting links with these keywords) and they seemed very promotional in nature. When we reviewed these links, we saw that they were coming from paid search efforts. They were the titles of the ads on both Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing and Google AdWords. Yet, Google Webmaster Tools was (and still is) showing these as anchor text of backlinks to the Web site.