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> What makes Google's legitimate over OP's? They bring real visitors and customers. Random bots running on AWS or TOR bring me headaches and bigger bills.
by slig 7y ago
> What makes Google's legitimate over OP's?
They bring real visitors and customers.
Random bots running on AWS or TOR bring me headaches and bigger bills.
- mfontani 7y agoRandom bots _using common "real browser" user-agent strings_ piss me off to no end.
- slig 7y agoAnd that's exactly what random bots do.
- Crosseye_Jack 7y ago> They bring real visitors and customers. if this is to be believed [0] less then 50% of google searches result in a click though to the site, so one could argue that because of things like snippets in search results Google don't always drive traffic to your site. [0] https://sparktoro.com/blog/less-than-half-of-google-searches-now-result-in-a-click/ https://sparktoro.com/blog/less-than-half-of-google-searches...
- slig 7y agoI think that's fair. If the user was able to get what they're looking for without having to click, good for them. I'm betting that Google knows when that happen and uses it as a positive signal towards that site.