Does having google analytics improve SEO?

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Not sure if it's been covered here before, but couldn't find anything and thought it would be interesting to hear what people think.

To be clear, I'm not speaking about the SEO improvements you can make by looking into the analytics and making changes.

Instead, I'm wondering whether simply having a google analytics tag on your website will look more trustworthy to google?

In my head it makes sense, users who are tracking their analytics are more likely to be taking their website seriously and are therefore more likely to be publishing higher quality content so could add to your google 'trust score'?

What's everyones thoughts on this? Think its a load of rubbish or could have a slight impact on your search rankings?
 
simply having a google analytics tag on your website will look more trustworthy to google?
no!

At the end of the day you can still only rank up to 10 sites on the 1st page of google for any given keyword out of 1000s of sites that have analytics installed. SEO doesn't work like this :)
 
Not sure if it's been covered here before, but couldn't find anything and thought it would be interesting to hear what people think.

To be clear, I'm not speaking about the SEO improvements you can make by looking into the analytics and making changes.

Instead, I'm wondering whether simply having a google analytics tag on your website will look more trustworthy to google?

In my head it makes sense, users who are tracking their analytics are more likely to be taking their website seriously and are therefore more likely to be publishing higher quality content so could add to your google 'trust score'?

What's everyones thoughts on this? Think its a load of rubbish or could have a slight impact on your search rankings?
Fact: analytics blocks GSC spider and googlebot as per their robots.txt
Has nothing to do with SEO, regardless of the bro science out there.
 
I would even say that sometimes it even helps rank better if you don`t have GSC and GA for some niches or groups of the websites)

But in most cases, it is just analytics and no more. In most cases, even your websites last longer if you didn`t set up it correctly together with many other JS codes) But it is another problem.

To better understand your users, you need to have GA and GSC.
 
No one can really tell. There are tons of sites ranking without using Analytics. I think this is something you shouldn’t worry about it. Use Analytics if you need it for tracking your users, not because it’ll boost your rankings.
 
What I can say is that Google Analytics's notifications for indexing issues have enabled my site to enjoy a 33% improvement in month-to-month traffic volume.

The key is to actually take Google Analytics seriously.

There's no magic bullet here.

Just because you installed Google Analytics on your site and you're running analytics code doesn't trigger Google's search engine to rank your stuff higher.

It doesn't work that way!

Instead, you have to do the work.

You have to make sure that all your pages are indexed as much as possible.

You have to make sure that your stuff can be crawled and that you've laid out your content in such a way that it's easy for people to make sense of it and read it.

That's the bottom line!

But at the end of the day, it really all boils down to value and your willingness or capacity to deliver on the intent of the people who entered the keywords you're targeting into Google.
 
I don't think including Google Analytics won't help your on-site/off-site SEO
 
Google Analytics is not a ranking factor. Installing Google Analytics on your site helps you immensely when working on your site's SEO.
 
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