This is a tricky one. Google’s answer would be a categorical, ‘No!’ However, several studies have shown a correlation between budget spent on paid ads within the SERPs and organic ranking improvements. Some argue the more you spend with Google on their Adwords platform, the higher you rank organically – as a sort of ‘reward’ from Google. Personally, I disagree with this thought. I think it’s simply a case of that if a business is spending a large amount on a PPC campaign, they probably also have the budget to have employed good quality SEO services, too.