What started with a convo with Dave Davies and then taken further when Bill Slawski and I were chatting, is apparently now a thing. LOL. Most of the SEO world doesn’t really have an interest in information retrieval, never mind (Google) search patent awards (unless they can glean something to manipulate). But hey… let’s do this.. (be sure to read … Read More
Is Google using CTR as a ranking signal?
So, I came across someone asking about a service today… a service that you pay to click on your SERP listings… because, well, that’s going to rank your pages better. Right? Well… shit. Get it through yer heads folks. User actions are NOT being used to rank web-pages. It really doesn’t make sense that they would. As Matt (Cutts) told … Read More