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> Successful clicks matter. I wonder about this. If I click a link and read it and I find that it's garbage (e.g. got ranked based on SEO rather than useful co
by HankB99 2y ago
> Successful clicks matter.
I wonder about this. If I click a link and read it and I find that it's garbage (e.g. got ranked based on SEO rather than useful content) does it count as a successful click? Worse yet, some of these sites have blatant errors that are only discovered after examination.
This is relative to technical subject matter. Other searches, such as shopping may not suffer this kind of problem (or I have not noticed it.)
I also wonder how Google knows a click is successful. If I open a link in another tab, does the browser tell Google how long I lingered on the site? Perhaps Chrome does but I use Firefox.
- EcommerceFlow 2y agoOnce you get to the top 1-3 results, CTR (click through rate) is a much bigger ranking factor. Google knows how long people stay on pages and whether they click and back out immediately. This is important for E-Commerce, because Google doesn't want Site #1 to be mostly out of stock even though they have better links.
- HankB99 2y ago> Google knows how long people stay on pages and whether they click and back out immediately. What if I <ctrl><click> to keep the search page open and open the "found" page in another tab?
- yencabulator 2y agoCan the on-page javascript detect the difference between click and control-click? If so, you can count just the former, and wait for the back button press, to get a sense of visit duration. I think control-click is a power user feature that they just don't care to track. Average consumer is the target audience of the advertising...