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Can someone tell me what does the bounce rate affect? Also, you should put that code in a function closure rather than calling new Function(): setTimeout(

by dreen 13y ago

Can someone tell me what does the bounce rate affect? Also, you should put that code in a function closure rather than calling new Function(): setTimeout(function(){_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', '15_seconds', 'read'])}, 15000);

ovi256 13y ago
The bounce rate supposedly affects PageRank. I'm not sure however if this fix also fixes the bounce rate Google uses internally for calculating PageRank.
- chmike 13y ago
  This is a very interresting news if this is true. I'm managing a web site with one page containing article abstracts and references to pdf files. Our rank is surprinzingly not very good. I will try the proposed change and see if things get better. Articles are original content of scholar quality level.
  - vidarh 13y ago
    Why in the world are you surprised the rank is not very good? If the site is one page + links to PDF's, you're unlikely to have a large number of inbound links, which means your pagerank is unlikely to get particularly high.
    - chmike 13y ago
      What could I do to correct this ?
- giovannibajo1 13y ago
  I find this unlikely. If that was true, it would be a standard trick to send a tracking event at load time to zero the bounce rate and improve pagerank.
- coldtea 13y ago
  >The bounce rate supposedly affects PageRank. Huh? Who said that? AFAIK, PageRank is independent of GoogleAnalytics and does not examine bounce rate (which it cannot know). PageRank obviously works for the majority of webpages that do NOT use Google Analytics for example.
  - chmike 13y ago
    Yes, but google could still use the statistic information to adjust it's pageRank. We don't know. Though it would be easier to trick than the reference counting pageRank algorithm
- dchest 13y ago
  Is Google Analytics data a factor in a page's ranking? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU tl;dr NO.
Kiro 13y ago
Why do you need a closure?
- dreen 13y ago
  because creating a function using a string is the same as using new Function("code"); which makes use of eval() for the code
hashtree 13y ago
Your analytics data. Google has repeatedly said that they do not use said information for ranking at all. You should use analytics for insight into you users, that's it. Use it however that best fits your needs.
chmike 13y ago
Indeed, according to http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp, the first parameter of setTimeout should be a function. I don't know if "_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', '15_seconds', 'read'])" will be treated as a function.
- dreen 13y ago
  it would be passed into eval()
- mathrawka 13y ago
  Let's not link to w3schools... (http://www.w3fools.com/ http://www.w3fools.com/) MDN is nice: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.setTimeout https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.setT... And if you are using DuckDuckGo... "!js setTimeout" will redirect you to MDN.
  - chmike 13y ago
    Thank you very much for the link. I'll use this site from now on. It's sad MDN url is not returned first with a google query.

by dreen 13y ago

ovi256 13y ago

The bounce rate supposedly affects PageRank. I'm not sure however if this fix also fixes the bounce rate Google uses internally for calculating PageRank.

chmike 13y ago
This is a very interresting news if this is true. I'm managing a web site with one page containing article abstracts and references to pdf files. Our rank is surprinzingly not very good. I will try the proposed change and see if things get better. Articles are original content of scholar quality level.
- vidarh 13y ago
  Why in the world are you surprised the rank is not very good? If the site is one page + links to PDF's, you're unlikely to have a large number of inbound links, which means your pagerank is unlikely to get particularly high.
  - chmike 13y ago
    What could I do to correct this ?
giovannibajo1 13y ago
I find this unlikely. If that was true, it would be a standard trick to send a tracking event at load time to zero the bounce rate and improve pagerank.
coldtea 13y ago
>The bounce rate supposedly affects PageRank. Huh? Who said that? AFAIK, PageRank is independent of GoogleAnalytics and does not examine bounce rate (which it cannot know). PageRank obviously works for the majority of webpages that do NOT use Google Analytics for example.
- chmike 13y ago
  Yes, but google could still use the statistic information to adjust it's pageRank. We don't know. Though it would be easier to trick than the reference counting pageRank algorithm
dchest 13y ago
Is Google Analytics data a factor in a page's ranking? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU tl;dr NO.

Kiro 13y ago

Why do you need a closure?

dreen 13y ago
because creating a function using a string is the same as using new Function("code"); which makes use of eval() for the code

hashtree 13y ago

Your analytics data. Google has repeatedly said that they do not use said information for ranking at all. You should use analytics for insight into you users, that's it. Use it however that best fits your needs.

chmike 13y ago

Indeed, according to http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp, the first parameter of setTimeout should be a function. I don't know if "_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', '15_seconds', 'read'])" will be treated as a function.

dreen 13y ago
it would be passed into eval()
mathrawka 13y ago
Let's not link to w3schools... (http://www.w3fools.com/ http://www.w3fools.com/) MDN is nice: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.setTimeout https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.setT... And if you are using DuckDuckGo... "!js setTimeout" will redirect you to MDN.
- chmike 13y ago
  Thank you very much for the link. I'll use this site from now on. It's sad MDN url is not returned first with a google query.