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Google ranking signals / clicks
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The video claims the 2024 Google API leak showed Google tracks clicks, long clicks vs short clicks, and that higher-click sites can get better rankings.
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The video claims the 2024 Google API leak showed Google tracks clicks, long clicks vs short clicks, and that higher-click sites can get better rankings.
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This topic currently has 1 source records, 1 public insight cards, and 1 creators in the public Base2026 export.
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The video claims the 2024 Google API leak showed Google tracks clicks, long clicks vs short clicks, and that higher-click sites can get better rankings.
You'd never guess this about Google. Google had its biggest leak ever last year in 2024. This is some of the things that were revealed. Google demotes sites with exact match domains like bestchicagoplumber.com. Google tracks your clicks in Chrome. Sites that get more clicks get better rankings. Long clicks versus short clicks are measured...
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You'd never guess this about Google. Google had its biggest leak ever last year in 2024...
You'd never guess this about Google. Google had its biggest leak ever last year in 2024. This is some of the things that were revealed. Google demotes sites with exact match domains like bestchicagoplumber.com. Google tracks your clicks in Chrome. Sites that get more clicks get better rankings. Long clicks versus short clicks are measured...
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You'd never guess this about Google. Google had its biggest leak ever last year in 2024.
This is some of the things that were revealed. Google demotes sites with exact match domains like bestchicagoplumber.com.
Google tracks your clicks in Chrome. Sites that get more clicks get better rankings.
Long clicks versus short clicks are measured. You want people to click then stay in your site.
Backlinks on URLs that get no clicks are seen as low quality. Backlinks from a Forbes URL that gets no traffic will not be great even though it's Forbes.
If you didn't check Google's API leak last year, there were some crazy things shared in it.