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Do external traffic sources coming to your website boost your google serps?

by Zac The Man
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Specifically what i mean is, if affiliates are sending you traffic from their email list directly to your website, does google interpret this as a good thing and overtime begin to consider your website of higher value than it previously had?

Anyone notice this benifit or is this a false assumption do you think?
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  • Profile picture of the author Humbee360
    Its a good thing, anytime you get multiple IP traffic that comes to your site from individual computers from well formatted links, its always worthwhile, having said that its not likely to make a huge difference unless the level of traffic is consistent and free of bad traffic footprints.
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  • Profile picture of the author hassan007
    To get bumped in Google SERP's the main concern here is the bounce rate... If bounce rate is around 50% then it's good and it will help but if it's like 80% then it is a red sign for your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author bigcaveman
      Hi Zac The Man. The question you are asking is an excellent one that is not talked about a lot.

      Let me start off by saying that are thousands of things that influence you rankings in the search engines. And yes, one of those factors are people vising your site from links they click on.

      I have found that people clicking on a link (no matter what kind) has a benefit to your rankings and your site authority.

      However, the ranking factors are always changing, so what is helpful today may not be as helpful tomorrow.

      I hope this answers your question.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sid Hale
    Hi Zac,

    Originally Posted by Zac The Man View Post

    Specifically what i mean is, if affiliates are sending you traffic from their email list directly to your website, does google interpret this as a good thing and overtime begin to consider your website of higher value than it previously had?

    Anyone notice this benifit or is this a false assumption do you think?
    It's a false assumption.

    Think about it... unless the sender or recipient of the email is using Gmail as their email provider - Google has no knowledge of the email at all, and certainly no way of knowing what links in that email might have been clicked.

    EDIT - Google also has no way of knowing about any traffic that originates from other search engines (i.e. Bing, Yahoo, etc.). That's one of the reasons that it is important to Google for webmasters to use their other tools (such as Google Analytics) on their web sites. It gives them additional insight into traffic that originates from other "external" sources.
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Things like Bounce Rate , Time spent on Site can have an effect on your position.

      Though, trying to figure out Google and what it is thinking can be very futile


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    • Profile picture of the author Zac The Man
      Originally Posted by Sid Hale View Post

      Hi Zac,
      It's a false assumption.

      Think about it... unless the sender or recipient of the email is using Gmail as their email provider - Google has no knowledge of the email at all, and certainly no way of knowing what links in that email might have been clicked.

      EDIT - Google also has no way of knowing about any traffic that originates from other search engines (i.e. Bing, Yahoo, etc.). That's one of the reasons that it is important to Google for webmasters to use their other tools (such as Google Analytics) on their web sites. It gives them additional insight into traffic that originates from other "external" sources.
      Good point. So what you're basically saying is if i use google analytics on my website, google will be able to see this external traffic coming to the site (ie from affiliate email lists).

      Naturally, one would assume that google would interpret this positively. It means the site is of interest to people. Especially if those users stay on the website for a minute or two. The users would all have unique IPs and country originations.

      I assume google would be able to tell the difference between real users like this and fake bot traffic.
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      • Profile picture of the author Sid Hale
        Of course,

        Originally Posted by Zac The Man View Post

        Good point. So what you're basically saying is if i use google analytics on my website, google will be able to see this external traffic coming to the site (ie from affiliate email lists).
        Surely you didn't think that they provide tools like like this just to be generous.
        With Google Analytics, they can not only see when visitors arrive at your site, but also how they move through your site between pages and how they leave your site... regardless of what external traffic brought them there.

        Behavioral data is priceless in the advertising game.
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  • Profile picture of the author dotgirish
    Getting traffic from different IP is always a good thing , if you can control bounce rate too then nothing better than that..
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  • Profile picture of the author Curtis2011
    Traffic in and of itself doesn't effect SEO rankings, but Google does track how long people view your site and tries to determine if they think your content is valuable. If they do, then it can positively effect your ranking.
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