Does Google use Google Analytics data in ranking your sites?
Does anyone have any information about whether Google uses the data in Google Analytics for your websites as part of its algorithm for ranking pages? Someone I know has a site with good levels of traffic and he reckons that Google definitely uses the bounce rate to determine whether people are finding your site useful. Problem is that if the visitor hits the right page first time and then clicks on an affiliate link then that is treated as a bounce since they left the site without visiting any other pages in the same domain.
Any thoughts?
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