User engagement doesn’t impact your search rankings

Mickey Mellen
2 min readMar 25, 2022

Keeping users engaged on your website is vitally important, but Google says it doesn’t affect your rankings. I suspect they want it to, but they don’t have a good way to tie your site engagement to the rankings.

The problem for Google is two-fold:

  • If you have Google Analytics on your website, which captures many of those engagement metrics, it…

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Mickey Mellen

I’m a cofounder of @GreenMellen, and I’m into WordPress, blogging and seo. Love my two girls, gadgets, Google Earth, and I try to run when I can.