Does Google measure traffic for a site ranking?

Discussion in 'Google' started by schwab, Nov 20, 2007.

  1. #1
    Like the title says:
    Does Google measure traffic for a site ranking? Since my website is new and adwords is like day light robbery. How do i get quality traffic?
     
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  2. njoker555

    njoker555 Notable Member

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    site ranking in search engine? or PR?

    and no traffic doesn't matter for either of the ranks - you need tons of backlinks - tahts how u get good traffic and rank higher
     
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  3. corlock

    corlock Banned

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    I don't think that traffic has something to do with the site's ranking. its all on the contents and links of the site...because even a top rank site may get a very low amount of traffic.
     
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    usasportstraining Notable Member

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    That's not to say that Google won't factor traffic in the future, but right now it does not appear to be a factor.
     
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    Agreed - they collect a lot of data now via toolbar etc - and logically if the site at #2 seems more relevant than site #1 from this data I predict they might swap places in the future
     
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    If google will consider site traffic then webmasters can have control over their ranking in search engine. So, I think traffic has no effect on SERP.
     
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  7. schwab

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    I'll try to get backlinks then but what kind of links will be considered backlinks?
     
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    Google seems to be monitoring actual clicks from the search results (sometimes you can see this) but there is no evidence they use this data yet.
     
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    If you click or right-click any of the results from a search in google, you can see that data is being transmitted. Possibly for monitoring quality of results.
     
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    < theoretical >

    Think about it, everybody uses G-analytics, who is to say that google couldn't use clickthrough info from serps and even visitor retention as a factor to determine serp rank between two highly competitive sites? Between the toolbar, analytics and adsense, google has a wealth of info that can be used to separate real traffic from fake traffic, and then use this calculation to influence serp.

    < /theoretical >
     
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    I highly agree with this.

    If you are a high competing site that is increasing its budgets with adwords over time in your industry, who is to say that they don't use that information gathered to apply it toward establishing a authority site.

    I mean for sites that sell service and products. If you use analytics, google knows the traffic they give you turns into money from adword budgets increases and conversions you opt into.

    They also know quality content by how long a user hangs around on a page and bounce rates.

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    On another note, i'm sure they look for pages like contact, about, privacy policy, terms of use, support, email address, phone number, etc... it scoring a page.

    There are so many factors other than just text on site and link backs that influence PR and serp results. Just my 2 cents.
     
    used_cisco, Nov 21, 2007 IP