Does the number of hits effect your rating?

[btbsoft]

Does anyone know if the number of hits or visits effect your PageRank?

[Rivux]

It does not.

[realestate]

We dont know. Noone says so, but there are so many toolbars around; you don't know how they are used.

[awall19]

Originally Posted by Rivux

It does not.

lots of confidence in that answer there. cant be sure that they will ignore clickstream data forever. of course most search engines will not openly admit to using it in anyway.

[TGR]

of course most search engines will not openly admit to using it in anyway.

That would encourage massive self-clicking.

Adwords uses it in their algo. I wouldn't be surprised if SE's did use clicks as a (minor) factor in determining rankings.

[longcall911]

I tried testing this very issue a few months ago asking a dozen friends to search and click once a day, every other day, for 2 keyphrases for a period of 2 weeks. Yahoo seemed to respond (i.e., moving from about #75 to #50) while Google didn't. Once the campaign ended, my position returned to about what it had been. Because there are so many other things can also effect SERPs, it is not possible for me to be sure that the click campaign was responsible for the movement, but the timing coincides.

[John Scott]

Google has stated repeatedly that PageRank is a mathematical calculation based on links.

http://www.google.com/technology/

[awall19]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Google has stated repeatedly that PageRank is a mathematical calculation based on links.

http://www.google.com/technology/

I thought he was talking about rankings and not pagerank...shows how tired I have been all day. getting ready for nappy.

[TGR]

Yep, I thought the same thing. I need to stop working and start drinking.

Goodnight!

[hostprofessor.com]

Number of hits doesn't affect your ranking. Only number of site which link to you will affect.

[btbsoft]

thank you