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> So I proposed to the owner of the company, I would create a "Click Faker". It would go to google on your local PC, it would then search for a term you wanted
by alberth 4y ago
> So I proposed to the owner of the company, I would create a "Click Faker". It would go to google on your local PC, it would then search for a term you wanted to rank, then it would navigate the top 10 pages, if it found you, it would click your link, then spend 2-5 minutes navigating around your site before closing the window.
Dumb question: how would google know you spent 2-5 minutes on that domain and navigated around it?
- jermaustin1 4y agoYour site needed 2 or 3 things to work: Ranking in the top 100 results of Google Search, then Google AdSense and/or Analytics for this to fool Google.
- nickphx 4y agoIf you're hoping to participate in the SEO game, you have to utilize google's javascript analytics code. Their code collects and reports on a variety of user activity. It's safe to assume (based on google published articles [1]) that the data collected is used to influence the site's rankings. 1. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9205520?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9205520?hl=en
- awavering 4y agoYou don't need to install Google Analytics to rank on Google. The article you cited mentions CRUX data[1], which comes from the Google Chrome browser, not Google Analytics. That data is reported to website users in the form of the Core Web Vitals report, which is a different product than Google's ranking algorithm. Although similar data is probably used as a ranking factor, you can't conclude that from this support documentation. 1. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/
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- forgotmypw17 4y agoOne way they can tell is whether they see you on the search results page again, or if they see you click another result on the search results page.