Bounce rate manipulation

[silentneedle]

In the last few weeks I stumbled over a few paid4 sites which pay their users for bounce rate manipulation. They usually guide the users through a few steps like:

1. visit google and search for the keyword "X"
2. visit one search result which ranks above "paid4partnersite.com" and hit your back button immediately
3. now click on the search result of "paid4partnersite.com" and stay for about 90 seconds, after that visit some of the subpages

As soon as the user did those steps he'll get credited for his work.

Does that really improve the rankings of a site? This would be ridiculous and even easier as buying some links.

[Peter_S]

i don't know if it's easier, because I assume that it would require lot of people doing this before it has a significant impact (if even it can), and also, I assume that Google evaluates Bounce rate continuously, so you would have to do this all along the day, and everyday.

To hope to obtain results, one would need to use click farm, with tons of servers/devices and all kind of way to get different IPs, to do this automatically all day long. A bit like that : [twitter.com...]

[robzilla]

This would be ridiculous and even easier as buying some links.

There's your answer.

[martinibuster]

It's an SEO Myth that bounce rates will influence rankings.

CTR, time on site, bounce rates have always been studied in the context of machine training the algorithm to understand what is user intent when a user makes a specific query or personalization. Period.

CTR/bounce rates are not a ranking factor. Those people who say so are SEO Newbs who have only been in the business for five years or so and have very little understanding of how the algorithms themselves work. They are FAKE SEO sites.

Here's an article about Bad SEO Information. [searchenginejournal.com]

Good luck,
;)

Roger Montti

[nomis5]

It's not the magic bullet you are looking for. I think it's back to drawing board concentrating on the basics.