Does clicking on your own results on Google get you better rankings?

[Bingo123]

Strangely enough there was some guy on there selling a tool which he said did exactly that. It would look for your website in Google based on the keywords you gave it and then click on it. I think it used a proxy though, so that it didn't look like it was coming from the same place. Not sure what it was called, but interesting I guess. Seems a little black hat to me though using that type of software.

[adamsmith]

After all, if a user has searched on a keyword, gone to your site, then reappeared on Google to search again 11 seconds later, would it be fair to say that they did not find what they were looking for on that site? Makes all too much sense.

[Steve Crooks]

I was thinking of a good reply for this thread and then I read this one and it says it all for me.. Agree with this and just want to add that social factors do influence Google's ranking but I do question whether some simplistic software that rotates proxies can work.

If it does I would be wary that Google's algo can't spot some patterns in this and eventually flag your site up as breaking it's webmaster guidelines.

Originally Posted by vikramd

Of course it's a factor. How relevant it is as a factor among the 200 factors google is using is hard to say without some in-depth research and testing on your own.

In AdWords CTR is about 60-70% of your quality score. SERP ranking is even less transparent than Google Quality Score so it is hard to say how relevant it is.

But why wouldn't it factor in for organic search rankings?

In addition to looking at software that rotates through proxies clicking your link - you might want to look into writing something catchy in your title and description tags so that 'snippet' shows up in the SERP is going to draw in clicks.

-Vikram

[yukon]

Originally Posted by adamsmith

After all, if a user has searched on a keyword, gone to your site, then reappeared on Google to search again 11 seconds later, would it be fair to say that they did not find what they were looking for on that site? Makes all too much sense.

That's what Timers in VB.net are for (easy fix).

You want the proxy/visitor to stay on the page 1min. or 7hours?

[Alyona The Publicist]

I believe that if one wants to build software to fool google that people from different areas of the world are clicking on a particular result and spending a random amount of time on that site it could easily be done.

Let's say that a hyphotetical piece of software can achieve all this (it's not rocket science) it can be done easily but the important question is however.... Is google giving importance to the click through rate of any result and is google pushing up results which are clicked more often?!

I haven't found any proof yet! ....but i'm still looking!

[linklover]

I've used the software. I know one thing for sure - it rises your site's Alexa ranking. I've shaved over 100,000 points off my rank.

I also matched up a graph of my kw serp movement from SEscout to my gwm Search queries and they matched up perfectly showing a correlation between site visit movement and serp movement. visits went up from the software and serps followed. When i stopped the software the visits dropped and the serp followed. Very strange. Many of my kws i was using with the software fluctuated wildly in the short term (hour to hour) that SEscout showed.

[GeorgR.]

Woops....now you are saying all those endless hours of clicking on my sites was WASTED?

(by the way..this is a joke I wish it was that easy just to click on the sites to get rankings..how did you even come up with that idea?

[positivemagic]

Quick question.. is this illegal now too? Thanks.

[Alyona The Publicist]

@positivemagic - it's not illegal!!! and it's not even against Google terms of service because there is nowhere written that you cannot click on your own websites listed in the search engine results. However what I have asked here is if this is something which works?!

From my experience since I opened this thread and from the tests I made it seems that this does not work however I still have to make some longer term tests on aged websites, so I am not ruling this 100% completely out!

[logoonlinepros1]

I think this is not a big issue that you are click on your own site in search result.