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Is Google Analytics data a factor in a page's ranking?

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Uploaded by on Feb 2, 2010

A, from San Francisco asks: "Are stats from Analytics (bounce rate, time on site) a factor in a page's or domain's ranking?"

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  • Because if the word ever comes out that they use it, people would flees Analytics like crazy.

  • What google analytics gather are personal user stuff that the user is doing on that site, those are not relevant to the site's actual ranking so it's no wonder google doesn't use that data.

    Also, if google were to use that data... wouldn't there be a big hole in the site ranking systems of those who use versus those who don't use ? Because google can't collect any data if the script it's not in the site and a user isn't actualyl running that script... basically: unreliable.

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  • I dont trust that.

    How do we know thats truth. how do we know if our analytics id is being used to link our pages by google search :S

  • cute .. like your clip .. keep it up =)

  • Is page rank really that important to webmasters. It seems like it is a big deal for them.

  • The rumors won't stop about using analytics in [insert whatever you want]. I've seen so many discussions about that, and google always denies it.

  • @incrediblehelp Huh is right. What do you mean clicks from desktops? Clicks from Google's search results can be tracked with cookies and it's the cookie info that's used for personalization. If they were using GA for personalization then GA would have to be installed on every single website which obviously isn't the case.

  • is this official site of google webmasters ???

    i don't believe that google analytics is not used for search result ranking. cause it's quite illogical - u have on analytics probably the most valuable data of the quality of all pages in the site and u don't use it?

  • I gave this video 5 stars for the answer = "No"

  • What about the gmail data, do u use Gmail data to track spammer. may they user gmail service for registering.

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