OPT - Other People's Traffic

[Terry Van Horne]

Bounce rate isn't even worth a consideration if it is untargeted traffic. Google has tracked user behaviour via cookie for as long as I remember. I also agree it is more important for PPC and likely plays a much bigger role in the position achieved. It has to... that is probably why they decided arbitrage was a problem and how they managed to identify the problem.

[Terry Van Horne]

Google have stated that they are very conscious of not creating aspects to their algo which can be manipulated by your competitors for their benefit (hence the reason that inbound links cannot hurt your site ).

Yeah.... explain how the snitch program can't be used for that purpose and how they didn't faciliatate negative SEO with assinine nofollow rules. Nope they aren't walking the walk! Their actions say the opposite. They put negative SEO on the table and that benefitted no one but them!