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Old 10-25-2007, 05:02 PM
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Default Re: Does click-through rate affect your search engine positions?

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Originally Posted by espmartin View Post
I see where you're coming from Cranky...by adversely affecting one, you inadvertently
affect the other positively - so "one algorithm does twice the job" ?
Yep.

Just seems to make sense to me, that if I'm Google and I want to make my entire data set for a particular query more relevant, "removing" or "dampening" pages when user behavior seems to indicate a page is not relevant enough for a particular query is a real good way to do it.

Dave
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