@Jeniferdsouja how do you know? Personal experience? How did you generate traffic, if you can be more specific about it? That would help a lot.

But how do Google know what's happening on a site? I understand that Analytics would say a lot, but what about sites that don't use Analytics?

Google is slowly pushing organic results further and further down the SERP. We know that searchers are more likely to click on listings that appear above the fold. By shifting organic listings down, Google is redirecting searchers who typically opt for organic listings toward paid ads. As more advertisers enable ad extensions, the average ad size will become exponentially larger. These huge, blinged-out ads will detract attention from organic listings and are likely to garner a high click volume.

Hello friends, Greetings. I am an online small business owner, lead a website. Try to learn how I can develop my business and I am already on studying on relevant resources to develop my website. The domain authority is not so satisfactory level. So, I am interested to learn how to improve Domain Authority. Would you please help me to improve the issue. Thanks in advance for your precious guideline.

Hi Bob. Welcome to SEO Forum!

Domain Authority is MOZ's custom developed metric. We can't really tell what are the factors exactly, but very likely it has to do with link quality, link volume, social media mentions and domain age.

Also worth mentioning, DA is logarithmic scale so it really depends on where you are at the moment. What is your DA now? Why/How do you think higher DA would help your site/business?

Wondering if google uses visitor interactions to rank sites. Not just plain traffic numbers. Time spent on the site, scrolling, clicking, using browser back button and so on. Anyone ever tested that? Would be worth testing?

For our blog website we do. Simple spreadsheet of 30 to 50 best performing pages. Mostly articles.

PAGE NAME | PAGE URL | IMPRESSIONS | CLICKS | CTR | CONVERSIONS (by first interaction)

It helps us to focus on what works.

I am posting this to find out if my idea sounds reasonable to you, or if it's too much in your eyes.

So, what I am proposing > Each new post, from a user with no posts would be (automatically) scanned for links, and if contained link(s), the post would be auto-deleted and author auto-banned.

Does that sound fair?

Good idea. Even though you do good work keeping this place clean, it does make sense to delete such users automatically. Normally users would introduce yourself first ask a question. Starting with a links isn't normal.

As I mentioned in my previous post https://seoforum.com/thread/google-business-reviews-impact-on-ranking-positions our business has received 3 negative reviews in a row. Those are no text reviews from mostly new accounts, or they recently reviewed business or two. I don't have to tell you that three negative reviews without a complaint or indication of what was so bad in their experience, posted within short time span by new accounts are obviously fake reviews, right? Especially when we have 60+ reviews averaging 4.9 points.

Is there a way to get rid of such fake reviews?

I was like there is something going on as you only have 3 indexed pages in google right now, but I checked the website and saw you have hibernated it so I guess the question is no longer relevant.

I've recently developed a website, it's ranking fine in other search engines such as Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo. But in Google it can't be found. I'm no SEO expert but there's no obvious warnings in Google Analytics or Google Search Console.

The website is www.ambulo.me. Can someone have a look and see what I'm doing wrong?

We are running e-commerce store. Signed up for Google Business account, so people can find us locally, check if we are open, call us or visit our website. It works fine, getting some views, customers checking our photos and so on. We ask our customers to leave a review. Not to leave a positive review, just a review, whatever their experience was. And we get 5 star reviews all the time.

However, this month, we received 3 negative reviews already. It's pretty obvious those are not from our customers as they use newly created accounts, leave no comment or feedback, just 0 stars review. We are 99% sure it's our competition, know exactly who that is, but there is nothing we can do about it. Google seems ignoring complaints and our review score is going down due to defamatory reviews.

The question. Are negative reviews in Google Business affecting our rankings? I can't say from our stats yet, they looks normal, but it's short time period and the overall score is not so bad yet. It's like 4.8 now.

But what if they went further and reviews were down to 3 or 2.5? Is it going to affect our rankings?