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Originally Posted by jetjet
if you buy traffic from google, will they prevent your organic search engine rankings from being higher because they want you to keep buying traffic instead
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Technically, the answer is 'no' - not by design (as you suggested) or another reason. Google has long maintained they do not manipulate rankings, except to, for example, penalize spammy sites that the algos didn't catch.
So yes, they could be doing it but certainly it would not be a smart idea. First, they would get discovered quickly. There are a lot of SEOs with way too much time on their hands, for one thing, and if Company X noticed all their sites/pages dropping shortly after using AdWords ... and a few others chimed in claiming the same, Google would get called out big-time for doing so .. Lawsuits and all.