cliqui

Well now you know that to keep hackers, technical minded and competent people out of your website you just have to register to google authorship.

Which in return will supposedly give you more "don't know better" people and "don't care" people.

According to wikipedia: "Organic search results are listings on search engine results pages that appear because of their relevance to the search terms, as opposed to their being advertisements".

To me there's not much organic left in google results, due to the filter bubble, tracking and lack of transparency on the ranking algorithm. I wouldn't be surprised to learn google boost ranking of results linked to google + accounts, which makes it self-promotion of their services and unnatural ranking.

Anyways I stay away from any result which doesn't look like a result I'm used to, so no click for those google sponsored results.

I assume that any result different from the basic result I'm used to is some crap google tries to push on me and having a few of those before they never land on relevant or useful content.

Which pretty much sums up my experience with google search over the last few years: less and less relevance and less and less usefulness.

I do the same about 98% of the time, most of the time intentionally but although because these links don't register as valid results to my brains.

It seems to me your take on the matter follows the myth that more traffic is better. IMHO this is deeply flawed, focusing on quantity, as in increase traffic, and missing the part where you qualify traffic.

Less traffic but of better quality is an actual improvement, more traffic of unknown quality could be an improvement or not, maybe those additional people are bouncing.

What is a certainty though is that your web server consume more resources and bandwidth due to traffic increase, and now you may have to refactor and optimize or pay to upgrade your hardware/hosting.

Appeals to authority are always deductively fallacious; even a legitimate authority speaking on his area of expertise may affirm a falsehood, so no testimony of any authority is guaranteed to be true.

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