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Old 10-25-2007, 06:01 PM
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Default Re: Does click-through rate affect your search engine positions?

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Originally Posted by crankydave View Post
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
This seems to make the most sense to me, and it does give evidence for a YES, to the
thread topic question: Does click-through rate affect your search engine positions?

In that through:
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by adversely affecting one, you inadvertently
affect the other positively - so "one algorithm does twice the job"
What is the consensus for all?
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