Do search engines factor traffic into rankings?

[Inyankara]

Do websites which draw a large number of visitors get higher rankings (or "points") than websites which get less visitors?

[BlueprintMarketing]

No, search engines cannot factor in how many people going to site because robots spiders whatever you want to call bots to the site in fact if you wanted to look up George Washington's birthday it would take only 20 seconds to do it on Wikipedia you have a high bounce rate so why would they judge something is irrelevant as traffic when they can judge actual links ans likes, tweets things that have authority I hope I've been help.

Sincerely,

Thomas

PS please excuse my grammar and  I'm using voice recognition system that is brand-new

[RebekahMay]

No, traffic itself has nothing to do with rankings.  I am sure there is probably a correlation between traffic and rankings because more traffic = more exposure which can lead to more links - or to more user generated content on the site, if it has any.

[Klarke]

Not directly.   The good signals that usually come along with a site that gets alot of direct hits or social traffic, are also those that the search engines are looking for.   If you've got people viewing and liking and coming back for your content, they're likely to link to it and share it.