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RE #10: It actually may be quite beneficial to give away your traffic data if your site doesn't have a lot of inbound links. PageRank is only one small componen
by snprbob86 17y ago
RE #10: It actually may be quite beneficial to give away your traffic data if your site doesn't have a lot of inbound links. PageRank is only one small component of your ultimate placement in Google results; high traffic sites are obviously also ranked better.
- jacquesm 17y agoIs that true ? It sounds self-serving, after all if high traffic sites are ranked higher they become even higher traffic sites and so on...
- snprbob86 17y agoI don't have any inside knowledge, but if you were Google, wouldn't you at least factor it into the equation? We use Google Analytics. I noticed Google Bot, but not other buts, has increased crawl frequency steadily with our recent traffic spike, but the number of visitors from search engines is still quite low at this point. This correlation hints that Google may be using traffic data to prioritize crawl rates and it would seem a logical extension to prioritize search results.