Click signals

2 entries

Moderate May 2024

The Content Warehouse leak: 2,596 modules of Google’s internal documentation

Rand Fishkin and Michael King (source: Erfan Azimi), SparkToro / iPullRank

Google stores far more than it publicly discusses, including click-based measures, site authority values, and per-document quality signals.

Strong Oct 2023

Navboost confirmed under oath: clicks re-rank results

Pandu Nayak (testimony), US Department of Justice (proceedings), Google / US DOJ

Navboost re-ranks results using aggregated click data over a rolling 13-month window, and internal documents describe it as one of Google's strongest signals.

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