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(Entry was posted by Michelle Dear on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/19/2015).

Bounce rate analytics not used in googles search ranking

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http://www.thesempost.com/bounce-rate-analytics-not-used-in-googles-search-ranking/

Despite the tweet, however, "Many believe that Google tracks bounce rate, not through Analytics, but by using data that shows when a searcher clicks through to a site, and then clicks on another result in that same set of search results in a very short period of time, especially since Google does track those clicks." Gary Illyes on Twitter: "@dnespo we don`t use analytics/bounce rate in search ranking"
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  • Michelle Dear: via +The SEM Post ;
    http://www.thesempost.com/bounce-rate-analytics-not-used-in-googles-search-ranking/

    [Despite the tweet, however,] "Many believe that Google tracks bounce rate, not through Analytics, but by using data that shows when a searcher clicks through to a site, and then clicks on another result in that same set of search results in a very short period of time, especially since Google does track those clicks."

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