Does poor traffic affect a site's SERP?

[livePR.ezer.com]

When Google updating its SERP will google change and lower down SERP for those sites who are having top 10 SERP but they had poor traffics from Google traffic records ?



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[ForumBoosters]

I'm not sure but it would seem to me that higher traffic sites with the same keywords would receive priority over the less traffic sites.

[baxy]

I think ForumBoosters is right upto a certain extant, this might be case. But again no one knows about Google.

[webron]

Yes, In my opinion, it plays a role in big G's algo. Also consider the bounce rate.

[juliensimon]

Originally Posted by webron

Yes, In my opinion, it plays a role in big G's algo. Also consider the bounce rate.

Do you have any facts / articles / resources to back up this statement?

[webron]

Originally Posted by juliensimon

Do you have any facts / articles / resources to back up this statement?

Sir, it was just my Opinion, as I stated it in my previous statement. And for the facts or evidence you are asking, I don't have it now, I do just based my statement on what I am seeing and what I am currently believing.

Big G do have many Algos and no one can determine what is included and what is not on their system.

Cheers!

[juliensimon]

Originally Posted by webron

Sir, it was just my Opinion, as I stated it in my previous statement. And for the facts or evidence you are asking, I don't have it now, I do just based my statement on what I am seeing and what I am currently believing.

Big G do have many Algos and no one can determine what is included and what is not on their system.

Cheers!

Okay - just wondering.
I like to know if it's someone's own opinion or if someone base a statement on an experiment or articles...

I like to know the source.

Thanks for sharing your opinion though.

[webron]

Oh thanks, As soon as I gather my own evidence and proof that this once plays important role on the ranking or even in PR, ill post it here.

[goharhayat]

I don't think so its gonna lose your SERP Ranking ... if you are on top of some keywords and google think you have to be top of that keyword but peoples are not searching that keyword , then its not your fault , not your sites fault , Its just a normal thing , yeah but i think if you are getting lot of visitors From a specific keyword where your site is not very high in ranking , then i think google will improve your ranking , just A Thought By the way

[Henry Andersson]

Of course that would affect your serp, low traffic and eventually high bounce rate will down your serp as it did for me as well.

[irenefletcher]

Originally Posted by Henry Andersson

Of course that would affect your serp, low traffic and eventually high bounce rate will down your serp as it did for me as well.

Completely agree with you. It's obvious, if your traffic is low your bounce rate will be down and it will affect the SERP. But still can't say anything about google. We don't know when it changes its algorithm. Its a big mystery

[buttsb]

if traffic is low on ur site the ranking of ur site will decrease and if high then ur site ranking and pr will increase and serp will also show ur site at first page.

[johnsunvalley]

Originally Posted by Henry Andersson

Of course that would affect your serp, low traffic and eventually high bounce rate will down your serp as it did for me as well.

i agree with what you said. if you have low traffic for a long time. i think people dont like your sites and as well as google. so google maybe decrease your rank for keywords.that is for my opinion, my friend.

[juliensimon]

The problem with that is that it is hard to experiment because if you have high rankings, you will most likely get traffic, which makes the poor traffic part hard to accomplish. Unless you rank high under non competitive keywords that don't generate traffic but then the experiment is not very relevant to what happens during the "real game"

[angilina]

Some Keywords have high traffic, where some have very low traffic, and some have no traffic at all. You site may rank number number for a keyword for which it will never get any traffic ever.

So what I am saying here is that, Google, in my opinion, do not count anything related to sites having less traffic while ranking high in first 10.

[micoblanco]

I think this topic is being discussed at http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/...s-ranking.html

[Brandon Sheley]

The only thing that affects SERP's are links and content

[micoblanco]

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

The only thing that affects SERP's are links and content

Really? How about the age of the site? The keywords and the competition? The title tag? There are a lot of factors that affect the rankings of a website in SERPs. As far as I know, there are hundreds of them (approximately 200+).

[gggorosin22]

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

The only thing that affects SERP's are links and content

The ONLY THING?
To base it only on links and content is highly improbable IMO.
I know I'm in no position to fire at you noting that you're a mod and all.
besides its mentors and mods that should correct and give more juicy answers to posters that is seeking help. I'm not saying you're entirely wrong,but the phrase you inserted "only thing" is a Big Word statement for noobs to get the wrong information. I mean you're "moderator" label gives your answer more value compared to us normal posters. maybe it's typo.i really dont know. please do try give more juice on your contribution you do have a position credibility to take care of .namean?

Having good positioning on SERP does give you the opportunity to get more traffic compared to other sites. If you have good optimization, traffic would eventually follow and grow.
You have to optimize a site first to get results on SERP. In order to optimize there two kinds on how to do it. There's the off-page optimization and on-page optimization
Keyword Usage alone has many different usage that may serve your site for better placement on serp. Depending on how and where you place a keyword give different value like :

• Keyword in URL - First word is best, second is second best, etc. Same as in page-name-with-hyphens
• Keyword in Title tag - close to beginning Title tag 10 - 60 characters, no special characters.
• Keyword in Domain name - Same as in page-name-with-hyphens
• Keyword in Description meta tag - Keyword in Title tag - close to beginning Title tag 10 - 60 characters, no special characters.
• Keyword in Keyword metatag - Shows theme - less than 10 words.
  Every word in this tag MUST appear somewhere in the body text. If not, it can be penalized for irrelevance. No single word should appear more than twice. If not, it may be considered spam. Google purportedly no longer uses this tag, but others do.
• Keyword density in body text - 5 - 20% - (all keywords/ total words)
  Some report topic sensitivity - the keyword spamming threshold % varies with the topic.
• Individual keyword density - 1 - 6% - (each keyword/ total words)
• Keyword in H1, H2 and H3 - Use Hx font style tags appropriately
• Keyword proximity - Directly adjacent is best
• Keyword phrase order - Does word order in the page match word order in the query? Try to anticipate query, and match word order
• Keyword prominence - Can be important at top of page, in bold, in large font
• Keyword in alt text - Should describe graphic - Do NOT fill with spam
  (Was part of Google Florida OOP - tripped a threshold - may still be in effect to some degree as a red flag, when summed with all other on-page optimization - total page optimization score - TPOS).
• Keyword in links to site pages (anchor text) - Links out anchor text use keyword?

see link for more information on SEO Checklist on Google Ranking Factors

[pau2x]

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

The only thing that affects SERP's are links and content

I agree but we still don't know wether it plays a big role is google. It's google's algorithm and no one else know about that.