Does Google rate the webpage by amount of visits?

Question

Hi there,

there is quite extensive discussion about this topic on another website and I am really losing my confidence. The thing is that I claim that the amount (count) of visits is NOT a criteria for increasing the PR of the particular web because:

a) Google just doesn't know about every single visit on a webpage (in case it's not using GA)

b) Google just would not rate by something what Google actually affects

Thanks for your opinions. Peter.

Answer 1

Not quite. Google uses PageRank, which basically means that links from sites with high ratings score you more points than links from low quality sites. I would suggest you start with this question for more details about SEO.

Answer 2

Google does have access to some webpage visit logs by using for example Google Chrome or Google Toolbar on other browsers, so they might use this info in their ranking.