Do search engines take how many visitors your website is getting into consideration when sequencing the list for a given search?

Suppose I had a website that was poorly optimised had very little content very few or no backlinks but it was receiving a lot of advertisement off the web from TV or some thing and so lots of people were visiting it on a regular basis.

Would that site be listed higher because of the large number of visitors
Also would it’s PR go up?

I have no proof of this, but I would say no. The search engines have no way of identifying how many people visit your site unless your visitors have something like the alexa toolbar installed.

The fact is though, if you have lots of visitors, odds are you also have lots of backlinks.

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Ahh of course they don't silly me

if they did have visitor numbers though that would be a good indication of a websites popularity perhaps thats the eventual plan with google anaytics .

The problem with that method, all the currently popular websites would grow exponetionally and the rest would sink to the bottom.

I think the linking scheme they are using now is probably the best method.

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No not at all, PR and rankings are all about lots of quality and related links nothing else.

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Even the quantity doesn't matter. It purely depends on the quality links.

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yes i too agree , for serps most imp is quality links links and links .. their age, relevancy etc all matters.

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Currently don't matter, and they never will

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Ya now most of the major search engines have started taking the age factor into account for giving rankings.

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This is a fair point but the same could be said of the linking pattern algo that would mean that high ranking sites get found more easily and are therefore more likely to acquire links. I don't know I'm thinking aloud but I've often wondered if a site that gets more serps clicks would score more points somehow. Another possibility would be to demote sites that rank highly in specific searches but never get clicked on; ie are (somehow) completely irrelevant to that search.

The search engines are certainly monitoring organic clickthroughs. If you look at the AOL data that was accidently published recently, they are not only monitoring clicks but also storing rankings of the sites that do get clicked on.

If the SEs did use clickthroughs, or even lack of clickthroughs in their algo, it's even more essential that you write an attractive title and description.

Cheers,
Paz.

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