About 6 months ago a friend of mine who knows a lot about SEO told me that if you search for your site using your most popular keyboard and then only click on your site in the listings it will give you a better PR after time? Is this true? Also, some days I will appear on the first page of Google using my keyword, others I won't be there at all. It's quite a unique word (the name of the village where I live) so could it be that not all of the google servers are the same? Thanks in advance.
The premise behind such statements is sound, but facts, probably, do not support it. Search engines work hard on delivering the best results to you. If a user clicks on result A, but not on result B, the search engine could surmise that result A is better. If this happens repeatedly, the search engine could use this data to rank result A higher. That is the premise. Whether any search engine is actually using this method... that is another matter; one that I do not know the answer to. Your precise question was about PR, my response is about ranking on SERPs.
It's probably true and SERPS are based in part upon traffic and click-through rates. However, you only have one IP address and this is proobably logged each time you click through, so i'd be dubious about it.
I don't how you come to that conclusion. As much as you want to believe it's true, everything that is said, must come with hard facts and data. To me, that is just an assumption and I don't see any reason to think it could be true somehow.
This could be one of the hundreds of things in the Google soup recipe, but a very minor one. Spend your time on the things that have the biggest impact. Get your on page SEO correct and then get links back to your site with the right anchor text. That will get you 80% of the way there. Then you can worry about other factors in the algorithm.
Good explanation. But it has definitly nothing to do with the PR. It will not increase when clicking on your page.
Personally I would have to see it to believe it. I kinda doubt Google would make it so easy to increase your rankings. It is more likely that they would use data attained through the google toolbar...bounce rate, time on site, depth of visit, etc. Perhaps it only really works for very low competition keywords. For high volume keywords, your handful of clicks would have very little impact compared to how many more people would be clicking on the first few results.
PR is based on the backlinks you have. I think searching and clicking on site have nothing to do with PR.
I think it might work same way as adword. More click through mean your site related with keyword. So google give you a better rank. but it might be very minor factor as other ppl said.
Here's my take: Your IP is logged when you do a search and if patterns are found over time that would suggest that you favor one result over another, the favored site may rank higher. However, that is only for you and not for anyone else so it doesn't make any difference. I have been told to always log out of my Google accounts when I do searches so I lessen the influence on the outcome assuming the searches are repetitive. Make sense?
I dnt know how to use keyboard this way (joking) But I do know Traffic (from diffrent ips) is also one of the (millions) factors google use to determine ranking. that might explainit.
I know it sounds compelling. But whether they actually do something about this is unclear. When they offer to give you results that you like, this data would be great. But the extent to which user-clicks should influence SERPs ranking is not clear. And the extend to which user-clicks do influence SERPs ranking is not known.