Google: SEOs Use "No" As A Way To Confirm Their Theories

Nov 8, 2019 - 8:03 am 48 by

Alien Google

Earlier this week, I wrote how yet another Googler once again said Google does not use user behavior signals for rankings. But what happens is people don't believe Google and they come up with theories on how Google does use user behavior as a ranking signal no matter how many times Google says no.

Martin Splitt from Google was the last Googler to say no, Google doesn't use them for ranking purposes. Here was that tweet:

So then the theories and twisting started. Here is the list of threads:

This makes me sad.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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