Lets say you search google for "homemade cookies" but your site is on like the 5th page for that term. If you were to get people to seach google for "homemade cookies" and then find and click on your site, will google see this and boost the site higher??
Interesting question. I don't know the answer, but am definitely interested in hearing from anyone who has hard evidence whether the number of clicks on searches affects the SERPs. If that were the case, it would be easy to "game" the SERPs by making a tool (or hiring someone) to search for and click your links continually.
well you can always post a direct link to that search page and tell people what one to click, say in the freebie section in exchange for stumbles or diggs. I'm temped to give it a go with my site but just want to get feed back on whether if would be a fruitless effort or against google policy to do this?
Based on various G patent documents, it is quite likely that clicks are a factor. However, I would think that it is a minor factor and that G has sufficient checks in place to stop counting after a certain number of clicks (perhaps based on search phrase popularity) when it sees a spike. So, my guess is that doing so might move you higher by a few places, but not a few pages. I also think that your "average clicks" would be saved and that if you fell below your average for some time, it could have a negative effect. If so, you might get some movement out of the initial spike, but then fall back to where you were if the clicks do not continue. This is all speculation, but generally, G seems to employ these types of tactics. /*tom*/
If you are at 5 then why do you need to do those things just carry on doing what you have learned and implemented to achieve that ranking-this will definitely take you higher Regarding your question, whether or not such clicks affect your ranking-my knowledge says "well it will not" else SEO would have been so easy
When I read you post I had a feeling I'd recently seen someone setting up an experiment on this - but having found it they were more interested in bounce rate than clicking through the search page http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=588166&highlight=click+google+experiment if you can set up an experiment I think it would be interesting. It is said there's something like 200 factors that go into making up the algorithm, so I think it may well be a factor. Not a large one, maybe, but a factor.
probably sorce of traffic will be very imortand in future for google and also amount of subscribes your blog .. BUT not now