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Trending ranking. How come none take pageviews into account?

2 points| Oggle | 10 years ago |moz.com

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Oggle|10 years ago

I see many of the algorithms outlined use time, votes, social influence, but nothing based on pageviews. Is there a reason for that? I mean if a site's PV is spiking, isn't that an indication that it's becoming popular? Or is voting used as a proxy for that?

detaro|10 years ago

Going by Pageviews basically gives maximum priority to headlines and encourages linkbait. If a user clicks a link and discovers the page isn't useful (or worse), you don't want to count that as support for the link.

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