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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by driverdan on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:24PM (#13261091)
> Poor user behavior metrics in Google Analytics negatively affected website ranking in Google organic search results.

Is this actually true? Does anyone have a primary source for this?

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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by angry-hacker on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:54PM (#13261184)
No it's not true because this referral spam never touches your server. Google does measure bounce rate when you come from Google search results, but this is entirely different scenario.
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