Fisticuffs enthusiast and noted “Pedo Guy,” Elon Musk announced drastic rate-limiting policies on Twitter last week. Purportedly rate-limiting is evidence of Tekonoking battling with &#…
Google does measure bounce rate and preferences sites which don’t turn away users quickly, it’s a decent measure of search saliency. Whether the effect is significant or lasts long enough to bother Reddit’s accountants is another matter. It also may not be enough to affect their SEM bid multipliers by much or rankings in structured content sections.
I suspect the extended protests hurt quite a lot more than they let on though.
I read elsewhere too that part of googles automatic pruning of results also looks at if a web page responds and at one point Twitter was ddos itself so they think a no reply may have auto taken it down like a webpage suddenly going offline.
That’s what I figured. However perhaps Google is still looking at how long one stays at a link, and a click right back is still negative.
Google does measure bounce rate and preferences sites which don’t turn away users quickly, it’s a decent measure of search saliency. Whether the effect is significant or lasts long enough to bother Reddit’s accountants is another matter. It also may not be enough to affect their SEM bid multipliers by much or rankings in structured content sections.
I suspect the extended protests hurt quite a lot more than they let on though.
I read elsewhere too that part of googles automatic pruning of results also looks at if a web page responds and at one point Twitter was ddos itself so they think a no reply may have auto taken it down like a webpage suddenly going offline.