I've experimented with this and tried bots alot and it seems that it might actually work , but then again it might be fluctuation or them detecting backlinks. Has anyone else noticed this?
Too lazy to find the link but.... According to their patent yes. They track where your users come from, how long they stay, ect. and it is used to calculate the SERPS.
wow, I would have said a definite "no" but you obviously know what you're talking about. I'd like to have a look at that article.
http://www.seomoz.org/article/google-historical-data-patent Theres the patent info that seomoz broke down so its more readable.
Once I saw a video interview with someone at Google about privacy issues and why google needs to store users search data and stuff, the lady in the video explained thats to determine what results in the search are more interesting to the user. she also went on to say(example) that if users click on #5 more than #1 then that tells Google that #5 is better than #1. I had seen this documantry i think over a year ago, will post a link if i can find it or the name.
it will not effect i think. Bcz before one of my site have rank 5 . Now my rank is 4 but traffic is double
some people are saying that its true, where some say it isn't, now where will we find the correct answer?
It is influenced with your site ranking but there are many others factor which give more weight. I think it does make some sense. If people clicked to your site and - Close immediately - Press "Back" immediately - Don't stay for a long - Didn't go to inner page - Didn't "Bookmark/Add Favourite" your site Then your site may not what people searched for and should not came up to first page or first listing. But as I said, there are more factors you should focus on about - link from authoritative site/directory. More editorial of the site you submitted, more trust weight give. Most of site which have good editorial will list site based on their quality guideline whether they made payment or gave link exchange or not, plus not guarantee any placement. - how consistency your site contents update - how unique and useful of your content - proper basic grammar content and not keyword stuff/rewritten by script/bot
Click ratio and users collected data are definitely ranking factors, i remember reading a story on seomoz about a SEO who tested this, basically he hired 100's of people to search for his "keywords" and then click on his sites, then navigate in the websites for 1 hour every day during 1 month (all the users had the google toolbar installed), he saw good improvements in rankings while doing nothing else (no link building, content creation..), he also reported that once his test compaign ended, the rankings fell back again. Now the big question is, how to have a good click ratio and a positive users data ? it's actually very simple, use your targeted keywords in the title but don't target only the search engines make titles for your users too by writting attractive and catchy titles, for example if your targeted keyword is "newyork pictures" then use the title "Amazing Newyork Pictures!" you don't need a phd to figure out that the second title will get more clicks, then once you get the users make sure they stay in your website for a while by providing them with outstanding content, just be the best in your niche and the rankings will follow. thx.