Does Google use its toolbar to measure each site's traffic?

[livePR.ezer.com]

Just like Alexa or even better.

Combine traffics to check what are really used backlinks can be count for new PR (PageRank)

The question is: Does G use toolbar to catch sites and pages traffics?

Regards,

[bobchrist]

Not sure about that but Google possibly using google analytics to compare traffic levels between your site and the top relevant website from specific niche/region.

[Jeremy80]

Google doesn't need the analytics or toolbar data for ranking websites. Instead they can base part of the algorithm around the clicks a website receives through search results for a specific phrase, as well as each person's browsing behavior.

I think Google is also smart enough to know that the people who turn on the anonymous stat tracking toolbar feature are most often webmasters. As such their browsing would be skewed towards webmaster & seo related websites. So Google wouldn't use that data at the risk of skewing their results to also favor webmaster related websites.

[shakir]

Does G use toolbar to catch sites and pages traffics?

I do not thing so, its only client based tool and also many are not using google toolbar

[palma]

Originally Posted by shakir

I do not thing so, its only client based tool and also many are not using google toolbar

Not everyone uses a google toolbar so the answer is no.

come on, if on average 60 percent (or whatever) of users use page rank toolbar and 90% (on average) have working javascript enabled and 50% of pages have some google javascript, between all this stuff google has data on 95% of web traffic. I'm sure they use it. It might not be a major direct factor in pagerank, but it certainly influences SERPs which gets you traffic which gets you backlinks which gets PR later which gets more traffic, etc.

[Evilboy]

Not everyone uses a google toolbar so the answer is no.

[micoblanco]

AFAIK (As far as I know), Google doesn't have a toolbar that counts or displays the traffic of a specific website but there is what we called Google Analytics. It is a free web analyzer/analytics tool that provides information regarding a specific website. It can track different sites' activities such as visits, bounce rate, views, visits length, average time and other stuff.

[livePR.ezer.com]

will you guys still believe if FireFox and IE all browsers and yahoo, alexa and more....toobars they all tell you they do not get any info from you PC?

or only Google toolbar is not catching any info from you !!

i doubt

[lloyd.velarde@gmail.]

google toolbar doesn't count traffics of a certain pages of a site, you can monitor your site's traffic by using G Analytics...you can't use G toolbar for traffic measurements unlike alexa...

[codecs]

What about chrome?

[livePR.ezer.com]

Originally Posted by codecs

What about chrome?

A browser like an aircraft carrier, a toolbar only like a jet fighter on its deck.

[zeruel]

Weird. I don't think Google uses that toolbar..

And Alexa isn't really accurate.. There are much better things to get your focus on than try to figure out what these toolbars can give help on your site...

[livePR.ezer.com]

One thing that every one knows toolbars and browsers all can catch information from us

All of them are not going to tell us what they got from us.

Probably Mozilla has gain the most info.

[Jonathan_Hue]

I think you're looking for this info

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[atlantadentalcenter]

I see that Jonathan_Hue, but I still not think they are using it to rank site. I agree with Jeremy80, they really don't need to use that information when they can track the number of clicks on a specific website in the SERPs. It would be more accurate that way.

[karmadir]

I don't think so, but if it is I would like to read the information regarding this.

[palma]

Originally Posted by karmadir

I don't think so, but if it is I would like to read the information regarding this.

It's hard to have good data on this, because so many factors are inter-related and google probably uses various algorithms at different times. There was one recent instance when I had two different links from askMeFi questions. They were roughly equivalent from a comuter point of view, but one of them generated a lot of traffic and the other did not. The one that generated traffic - that landing page was indexed right away. The other page was not. They were both brand new pages.

Why would you think they do not use click/visitor information? If nothing else, to help determine the geographical scope of where a page should be pushed.

[admonharr]

I agree with Jonathan to a certain point. I mean I agree what Google says

[yenerich]

The users of the G toolbar are not representative of the universe of people around the net, so i guess they are not using it.