You could time visits

[kdobson99]

For a long time, I thought that the best gauge of a page's relevance is actually how long a visitor stays on it before they come back to the previous page.

Lets assume for a moment that SEO didn't exist and you had 1,000 links to sites in your search engine for a particular result. Wouldn't the best measure of a page's relevance to a search term be how long the average visitor stays on the page before clicking the back button? Of course it gets messed up when people go forward instead of backward after clicking a link.

But if someone could develop an algo that took into account this "human" ranking of search results... we would all get better results in the end.

Of course once word got out to me and others that do SEO, we would spend all remove the back button from our browser and spend all day clicking our own links.

[kdobson99]

Sorry folks... it is midnight and I clicked the wrong button when posting this... it was supposed to be a reply to the thread below titled "How much weight do search engines place on search result clicks?" Someone move it if you can.