Would it help my rankings if I did searches on Google, Yahoo and msn and had my team click the link to my site?
Is search traffic click through rate heavily weighed by the search engine ?
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Two answers.
The first is no.
The second is if this DID increase page rank, it would be an artificial inflation and the search engines would very quickly figure out how to detect it and ban you from their indices.
I’ll give you an example. How many forums have you been to where the owners whine "This site is supported by adSense, do your part and click our ads!"
If you have, they won’t be asking for very long or won’t have adSense on their site for very long. This is strictly forbidden and Google has their ways of detecting it.
Page indexing and page rank are two different things. Page indexing is determined by the page’s CONTENT – is it the most relevant document for the entered keywords?
Page indexing is affected by page RANK, but not inversely. Page rank is nowhere near as important as it used to be. It is determined by the number of pages linking **TO** your site. This affects the site’s "popularity," so this factor also increases the indexing of the page in the results.
Corollary to the above, you might think you can set up 100 web sites and have them all link to your target site. Two things to consider: 1) search engines are already wise to this. This is called a "link network" and will indeed give you excellent short term results – until you’re found out. Poof. 2) All those sites that "guarantee top ten search engine positioning?" This is what they do. It shows results just long enough to cash the check . . . then . . . poof . . . .
Also you see tons of traffic, but no sales or conversions. Why? Because it’s junk traffic. Don’t waste your time trying to game the engines. They, and their programmers, are much smarter than any of us. Concentrate on quality content and solving visitor problems and it will come to you.
It would have no effect what so ever in the organic listings.
I think you are getting mixed up with Adwords which awards cheaper clicks on higher click through rates. However this would not be worthwhile as you pay for each false click.