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It's not from Analytics.. Log out of your gmail account, clear your cache, do a google search for "it turns out" and then right-click -> copy the URL of the fir
by epoxyhockey 16y ago
It's not from Analytics.. Log out of your gmail account, clear your cache, do a google search for "it turns out" and then right-click -> copy the URL of the first hit. Then, paste that into notepad.
- _delirium 16y agoIsn't that just how they count CTR / from-Google traffic? I thought the previous poster was suggesting that traffic from HN to his blog was upping his Google ranking (in addition to CTR), because Google detected a traffic spike indicating some variety of trending/breaking news. But if Google doesn't use Analytics data for ranking, how could they know that his blog was getting a spike of traffic from sources other than Google search?
- bigiain 16y agoNote the post you're discussing explicitly says "SERP CTR": "It's well known that traffic and SERP CTR has a significant impact on rankings." We can see they're measuring it, it's obviously at least worth investigating as a signal, I'd be absolutely astounded if they aren't using it. (I'm also a little surprised at Matt's continued insistence that the search team don't use CTR data from the Adwords and/or Analytics teams data. As a user-of-search, I'd like them to use _all_ available signals, and I suspect the Google Analytics data contains information which would noticeably improve the quality of search results).
- ig1 16y agoIt would probably be illegal. Google is the dominant player in both the analytics and the search space, using it's dominance in one area to strengthen in dominance in another would practically be asking for an anti-trust suit. Plus it's incredibly easy to rig google analytics data, you can just modify the GA javascript you're serving.