So Google has finally started following suite with Yahoo and began recently tracking click through rates on their organics. This is great news for those of us who understand how they use that data and have spoofed it to rank highly in Yahoo for years.
Thanks Google!
This just goes to prove that every attempt to improve relevancy only gives people an extra tool to fake relevancy. There goes my black hat tendancies, kicking in again.
PS. For those of you who just jumped out of your seats cus you realized what I mean by all this, guess what. Even though it’s completely black hat and there will probably never be a Blue Hat technique written for it, I have never seen it on any sort of forum or public SEO blog. So I get the credit for it being my idea! haha. Patent! Double stamp no erasies.
CTR analysis turned into high rankings on yahoo?
thats brilliant, and nice pointed observations
Thanks for the comment Dan. I was refering to the fact that there is only one reason to track click throughs on a search engine. To see if result #6 drives more interest in that particular search than result #5. If a thousand people a day search for Canned Dog Food, and 20% more of those searchers click on result #2 than result #1. Then logically result #2 is more relevant to what people are wanting to find than result #1. This in theory is a great way to test the results your engine provides. It’s also a great way to adjust and fine tune your results. CTR is also a VERY easy thing to spoof.
if more click result 2, maybe their title tag is well copywritten for maximum CTR