Does amount of traffic matter?

[onegrim1]

I had heard that the amount of traffic to your site ranks your site higher in the search engines?

If so, how is that monitored?

[Shak]

NO

Shak

[MacroChap]

The purpose of gaining traffic is to make your business succeeds, not to impress search engines! However, if you take the view that in order to impress SE's you need to increase the volume of traffic you get (assuming it is all targeted), then you're gonna be a winner anyway! There is no wrong answer.

P.s. more traffic means more exposure, more exposure means more potential links, sales, ideas, content yada yada, so in a sense i guess it is true...

[Ledfish]

Is it correct that most of the search engines don't keep records of how many clicks a particular sites pages receive or is this something may have, but just don't utilize?

[robotsdobetter]

It's possible I guess, but when you think about it Google alone has more then 3 billion pages in their index and that would mean a lot of GBs and money.
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