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Old September 6th, 2008, 03:15 PM
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I have a relatively new site, but the domain is not sand boxed because its been indexed for about 6 months and I am getting some keyword hits.

I know that a part of ranking is based on popularity with links, but is it also based on popularity without links?

So if I have a lot of direct traffic and a site that refers a lot of traffic to my site will that help me move up the ranks even if I do not have back links?

Please advise. Thank you
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Old September 6th, 2008, 03:26 PM
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In general, the answer to your question is ... "No"... traffic alone will not help your rankings.

However, that traffic is a key for getting people to know about your site and if you have great content then some of your visitors might have a website that they will link to you. So, traffic can be a key for driving your rankings up through the potential of links.

When I write a new article the first thing that I think about is... "how can I get eyes on this content?"
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Old September 6th, 2008, 03:35 PM
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You will not get search engine traffic without links to build up your link popularity
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Old September 6th, 2008, 04:37 PM
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In general, the answer to your question is ... "No"... traffic alone will not help your rankings.

However, that traffic is a key for getting people to know about your site and if you have great content then some of your visitors might have a website that they will link to you. So, traffic can be a key for driving your rankings up through the potential of links.

When I write a new article the first thing that I think about is... "how can I get eyes on this content?"


Why do they have traffic exchanges is traffic does not matter? They say that it will boost your alexa and google etc... ???

Please advise
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Old September 6th, 2008, 08:37 PM
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Joining a traffic exchange will NOT improve your Google ranking.

In fact if you are planning on putting Google Adsense on your site then you can't join a traffic exchange because it's a violation Google Adsense Terms of Service.

Besides, traffic exchanges do not produce anything
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"They" say that because it sounds like it is really good and people not in the know will part with money.

Yes you will get more traffic with a traffic exchange program but you will not get any targetted traffic and no more conversions.

Google uses user behaviour date to help rank a site so lots of natural reffering and direct traffic will be benneifical if that traffic spends time on your site and looks at lots of pages. A traffic exchange program will give your site a very high bounce rate which will have a detrimental effect.

ADVICE: DO NOT use traffic exchange programs.
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