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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.