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Is Click Through Rate a ranking factor with Google?

by DeclanF
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Hi Everyone,
I've tried finding an answer to this but many people have conflicting thoughts. So, is Click Through Rate as ranking factor for Google?
Thanks
#click #factor #google #ranking #rate
  • Profile picture of the author MRgauss
    Click Through Rate is the first ranking factor on Google, but you will not get your website ranked for long time.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by MRgauss View Post

      Click Through Rate is the first ranking factor on Google, but you will not get your website ranked for long time.
      I assume that's why you are also into nonsense like autoblogging....your answer and autoblogging will get you to the bottom.

      Your answer can't possibly be repeated by a human without cracking up.

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      • Profile picture of the author MRgauss
        Autoblogging is the future! I make more than 5k/month with my bots, not the old method you know, but using artificielle intelligence we are able to generate high quality content for our websites.
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by MRgauss View Post

          Autoblogging is the future! I make more than 5k/month with my bots, not the old method you know, but using artificielle intelligence we are able to generate high quality content for our websites.


          There's no artificial or real intelligence happening with that dead link in your forum sig.
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          • Profile picture of the author paulgl
            Originally Posted by yukon View Post

            There's no artificial or real intelligence happening with that dead link in your forum sig.
            We have met the enemy...and he are us!

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            • Profile picture of the author yukon
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              Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

              We have met the enemy...and he are us!

              Paul
              Lol, the forum sig link is still DOA.
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  • Profile picture of the author jagtq
    No CTR makes no difference.
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  • Profile picture of the author whitecap
    CTR is a ranking factor when it comes to top 3 positions.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    I don't think CTR is a ranking factor. Outside of page 1, basically every other site has about a zero CTR and barely any impressions. In many cases, not enough impressions to generate any meaningful data.

    What I do think could be a negative signal is a really bad CTR for a site on page one. If you are ranking in the top 3 and getting almost no clicks, that could be a signal to the ranking algorithm that maybe your site should not be there.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by DeclanF View Post

    Hi Everyone,
    I've tried finding an answer to this but many people have conflicting thoughts. So, is Click Through Rate as ranking factor for Google?
    Thanks


    So you start a new forum thread expecting everyone to finally agree.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOtraveler
    Well, the Google`s own assumption is that '…searching users are often the best judges of relevance, so that if they select a particular search result, it is likely to be relevant, or at least more relevant than the presented alternatives.'

    Given this, I`d say that the CTR is not a direct ranking factor, but indeed it may have a noticeable impact on the results ranking on page one. Commonly, you`d say that the higher position would presuppose more clicks on average, but sometimes it goes just the other way around. I believe it`s about how helpful and appealing your website looks in the SERP - the high CTR may convince Google that some result ranking #3 is actually more relevant according to the searchers` actions than your #1 result, that`s where it may hurt your rankings due to just improving your competitor`s.

    So it`s not like low CTR (out of context) will impact your rank negatively, it`s more like - high CTR may benefit your bottom SERP-neighbor.
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  • Profile picture of the author Uchiha Itachi
    as far as I know the click rate is an indicator of popular blog and hence, this is potential quality indicators for google reviews, but these numbers may also be normalization based on the location of the page as a page appearing on the top results will be more click than the page displayed at the bottom of the page.
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