Comments on: Google bounce factor research data is in

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:42:12 +0000

Thanks for the clarification on bounce rates, one of the main questions I get asked from people is, what is a bounce rate and what is a good number to have? Google need to be more clear on the explanation for this in Analytics.

By: visio

visio — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:45:28 +0000

Mircha, if you notice random and inconsistent bouncing of rankings it is usually due to lack of authority and link strength. When you build up some heavy-duty links to your site you should notice this event disappear.

Keep me updated! If we ever need help from our readers doing a test we will probably send the request to our mailing list… you can sign up here:
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By: Mircha

Mircha — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:05:04 +0000

Some nice research you have done here. Great work and a lot of help for many
Though, i have a uncool question..how come google adds / removes my site from the search..i was ranked #10..the next day i checked the site was gone..it was gone for almost 5 days then it came it back #9..now it’s gone again…for 5 days..is this normal??
Maybe someone who researched more then me has a logical answer to my question..it would really help.

Btw, keep up your work and if you ever need test sites or test user let me know.

Respek’

By: Skinner

Skinner — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:17:54 +0000

Very nice post. I always wondered if the clicks actually have any effect Google rankings. Thank you for posting the research results, this is a very valuable information

By: Manish Chauhan

Manish Chauhan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:09:07 +0000

I don’t find anything new in this experiment. As Google always promise to provide best results with respect to the searches made on the particular keywords. If most of the persons are clicking on the website xyz.com on key phrase “pqr” despite the fact that website xyz.com is not ranked at top 10 positions. Google will automatically know that for the key phrase “pqr”, website xyz.com is more relevant. And as per Google search results policies, Google is supposed to provide most relevant results to its users.
That is the reason, Google will start giving priority to that particular website on that particular key phrase in terms of rankings. It is something likely to Google PPC results, wherein your website listing not only depends on the CPC but also on the quality score that include CTR(how many persons are clicking your add). If your CTR is high, then Google will place your add at the top despite the fact of your CPC that is lower than other competitors.
So the conclusion is that Google search results reflects with the user search behaviors.

By: Literature

Literature — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:10:16 +0000

very interesting. my website lost some positions for a short time without analytics code, so I used the code again and my website got better positions.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:59:25 +0000

That’s amazing, it makes perfect sense now.
We’ve seen SERP drop for ‘apparently no reason’ and we hadn’t made the correlation before.
I’m going to check the rest of your experiments now and see if there’s anything else that will help.

Thank You!
Dave

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:37:37 +0000

I want to correct my statement about the “links.” I believe I listed 4 websites, not 10 as VISIO STATES.

By: visio

visio — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:32:07 +0000

HAHAHA thanks for the laugh!!!

First of all never ever goto google to learn how goolge works.

Lets put this into a logical equation…

First we have google who owns google analytics, now of course they want you to use their software correct? So why would they admit to something such as analytics effecting google search when it could potentially cause a massive drop of users using their analytics services.

Secondly many of the reps do not know how advanced google search actually is and they may not be aware of the use of google analytics as a factor…

Now I believe my studies have proven it is a factor and not only that but many webmasters/seo have challenged me and did their own research and so far all of them have come back with “Hey your right, google does manipulate their search with our analytics data.”

If that is not enough for you go read Google’s privacy statements and their patents, you’ll see it is covered there – That doesn’t prove they use it but it does disprove your illogical idea that just because a google rep told you it couldn’t be done than it must be so.

Now if someone can come to me with data and say “HERE, this does not add up, I researched what you said and something is missing, I am not getting the same results” – Come to me with that and you have a case, we will tackle that together but don’t come to me telling me what google says, I could care less what they have to say. I research my theories and I base my articles and seo on that and that alone not on what google has to say on the matter.

Come back when you have a real argument…

Ps. I removed your links, I didn’t see where we needed 10 links in the url field so I figured you didn’t need any, was that something that same google rep recommended? lol

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:54:21 +0000

I hate to be a party pooper, but I just heard from my direct contact at Google Analytics, and he laughed at me when I mentioned the idea suggested by this so-called ‘test’.
unless you folks are all into consiracy theory, this test has no validity whatsoever and is directly being refuted by Google. By the way, our google contact says that Analytics is “a completely separate system” from that of Google search. No data flows between the two, but the google toolbar does report relevance data for search. Data usage is always explicitly disclosed when you sign-up or agree to use any of google’s products.