Blocking our IP's but wondering if Google still uses our search data?
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The company owner here has our (company) website as his home page. I excluded our static IP’s on Google Analytics, but is that good enough to keep Google from using his search traffic as an indicator of anything negative. Does Google still take into account his activity, but simply block it from my reporting? Finally, does one person actually have that kind of influence as far as time on site, bounce rates, etc. Should I convince him to find a new home page?
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Bounce rate threshold is super high. Super high. If it wasn't, every single blackhat would be using it as a negative-SEO tactic.
In short, you don't have to worry about it unless your company owner homepages his browser 10,000 times a day.
And, if we're going to get all pedantic about it, I'm sure if Google's really looking at it that much it'll take into account single-IP bouncing. So 1 IP bouncing 10k times a day would be looked at entirely differently than 1,000 IPs bouncing once a day.
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I would not bother. Imagine Fortune 500 companies with 10;s of thousands of employees and each with their browser homepage set to company homepage. Think about web design/e-commerce companies where design teams are looking at the site, browsing the site and then not to forget the QA team. I would definitely not worry about 1 person
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