Timeline for Does direct visits/traffic affect SEO?
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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. | |
Jan 15, 2021 at 15:54 | answer | added | Trebor | timeline score: 3 | |
Jan 15, 2021 at 15:37 | history | edited | Trebor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Jan 15, 2021 at 13:43 | history | asked | Shay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |