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Jul 15 at 8:31 comment added GeoffAtkins While Google may not use Analytics data as a ranking signal, they do use engagement metrics taken directly from Chrome. I have too often seen organic performance shoot up when sustained traffic from other sources mean that there is suddenly a lot of usage data for a website for Google to access.
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Jan 19, 2021 at 0:12 history edited MrWhite CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jan 15, 2021 at 21:13 comment added Stephen Ostermiller Amount of traffic is not likely to be a ranking signal. For many sites, Google has no way of knowing how much traffic they get or how long users stay on the site. Even if a site uses Google Analytics, Google says they don't use data from GA for ranking purposes. If Google did use traffic as a ranking signal it would lead to a feedback loop. Many (even most) sites get the majority of their traffic from search engines. A new site would have no way of ranking and sites that were ranking well would end up ranking even better from the traffic from those rankings.
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Jan 15, 2021 at 13:43 history asked Shay CC BY-SA 4.0