Raise Ranking by Hitting

Hitting my Site

[Bobby7]

If I hit my site through a search engine a great number of times, will this boost my search ranking? Or is this considered a, no,no?

[deejay]

:) Won't have any effect with any significant engine.

There are a few small usually more directory type places that use this sort of thing, but they're barely worth submitting to, and certainly not worth this effort.

[Bobby7]

Thanks, Deejay

[rogerd]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Bobby7. The only circumstance where such a strategy might have an impact is if a search engine is doing click tracking. You can examine the HTML of the page to see if they are using straight HTML links (no tracking) or redirects, scripts, etc.

Even if they are click tracking, they probably filter multiple clicks by using cookies, session IDs, IP addresses, etc.

[yowza]

What about Google toolbar? They could easily track you through the toolbar. I'm not saying they do, but I think they could. Whenever I visit my website I always turn on the toolbar so that they can see that somebody visits the website. They may not factor this into their rankings, but maybe they do.

What if the "Sandbox" is actually applied to websites that haven't had enough page hits from those using the Google toolbar? They could set an amount like 4000 page hits from at least 100 different I.P. addresses. Or, an even better evaluator would be maybe 100 unique visitors who have visited at least 3 pages. If you go over this amount, it means that people have found your website and have liked the content enough to visit many pages. Well, that's my little conspiracy theory for the day. Although you have to think, why would Google want to record this info if they are not going to use it?

[ogletree]

I'm suprised we don't get this question more often. Most everybody I talk to thinks that is how the SE's work.

[ddent]

I seem to recall GoogleGuy (I believe, not 100% sure) once stating that you could boost your Altavista ranking by clicking on your listing.

I strongly suspect though that more advanced forms of click tracking & time spent on pages do in fact enter into the algorithims, as such can potentially represent the quality of a result.

I.e. if I google, click on the first result, and don't click any more, maybe they did a good job on that search.

[followgreg]

Hi all,

You'll correct me if im wrong but there are some click tracking ranking like alexa. And if you're able to set up a unique ip per hit you may improve at least your site 'popularity'
What do you guys think about this? Anyone tried, found any risk in doing it?

G.

[grant]

I have been wondering whether Google is using the toolbar to help them determine relevance.

We know that the sponsored ads that get the most clicks (weighted with bid price) are put on top.

Why wouldn't Google take into consideration user click patterns on top results?

Hmm...