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NO - click data is NOT a "primary ranking factor". The SEO community needs to move on from this nonsense. Ex-Googler Vanessa Fox explained all this stuff that "came out" in the Google anti-trust trial IN 2012 on SearchEngineLand.
"Google uses all kinds of signals to determine that you want the Beautiful Day video when you type in the letters “U2”, but certainly one strong signal is what previous searchers have wanted. Google has data on all of the millions of times searchers have looked for U2 in the past and know how many of them paired that search with (or later refined it with) 'video' or 'beautiful day' and also knows how often U2 searchers clicked on videos show in the search results. If Google started showing video, but searchers never clicked on those results, they might stop showing them; if every searcher clicked the video over a web page, they might start showing more video in results."
#seo #google #ctr #clickdata #navboost #searchengineoptimization #algorithms #searchengines