Do stats from Analytics like bounce rate and time on site count in ranking a page?

Here’s a short video about an interesting question:

Do stats from Google Analytics (i.e.: bounce rate,  time on site etc) count in ranking a page?

In short Matt’s answer is: NO however I suspect that key data like “Time on site” is a factor. It must be.

Think about this:
would you send traffic to a site that does not manage to keep his visitors for more than a few seconds? Probably not…

Some comments:

From: cedivad
4 months ago 2
can’t believe this, anyway thanks 🙂

and this one:

From: ahset
4 months ago
that’s great to hear Matt but we, the end user, are going to have to take your word for it. There’s no way for us to know if that is true.

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