Click Data Used in Google Rankings? Google Kind Of Comments

Dec 10, 2008 - 8:30 am 6 by

The question over Google using click data, such as how many people click on your site from a Google result, how many people click click the back button and so on, as it relates to ranking web pages in Google - is nothing new. We discussed it at least three times.

But this time we have a small and obscure comment from a Google representative on the matter. A Google Webmaster Help thread has a comment from Googler, JohnMu, not saying much on it, but you tell me what he means:

I can tell you for sure that anyone visiting your site a few dozen times and hitting the back button on their browser is not going to impact your site's crawling, indexing, or ranking at Google. That wouldn't make much sense and would be too easy to abuse :-).

So, John here clearly talks about "hitting the back button on their browser." He goes on to say that it won't "impact your site's crawling, indexing, or ranking at Google," if done a "few dozen times." Now, it is not clear if it is done a few hundred thousand times if it will make a difference or not. I don't think we can use this as a confirmation from Google based on this statement on if Google uses this data in their ranking algorithm or not. But who knows.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Search Video Recaps

 
- YouTube
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Search Forum Recap

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 16, 2025

Apr 16, 2025 - 10:00 am
Google Updates

Google Search Ranking Volatility Heating Up April 16th

Apr 16, 2025 - 7:51 am
Google News

Google Sued For £5 Billion In UK Class Action Lawsuit Over Search Dominance

Apr 16, 2025 - 7:45 am
Google

Google Search ccTLDs Are Going Away

Apr 16, 2025 - 7:41 am
Google Ads

Google Ads Suspended 200% More Advertisers (39.2M) & Removed 5.5 Billion Ads

Apr 16, 2025 - 7:31 am
Google

Google Testing New Label In Search Results Snippets

Apr 16, 2025 - 7:21 am
Previous Story: Does Google Cache Store Pages Locally?