Google Question -- although I'm probably an idiot

I am by no means an 'SEO' guy. Yet, after lurking here a while, I have started to wonder about a possible method for 'powerbombing' google.

Please disabuse my theory.

If I were to have a product (lets say on Amazon) and I wanted Google to rate my product link higher along a particular keyword... then I should be correct in assuming that Google will do so if users are running a search for the keyword and choosing my product link from the list.

With that in mind, what is to stop someone from setting up a 1,000 instance botfarm (anti-detect browser of course) on a rotating proxy and automating the process. 1,000 users (lets say, over the course of an hour), navigating to google, typing in the keyword, searching for the link to my product and clicking it. That is 24k/day traffic. Wouldn't the Google algorithm respond to this?

Please tell me why this would not work.

That's CTR Manipulation and it works wonder.

No, because Google detects automated traffic and prioritizes real user engagement and behavior, and violations may result in penalties.

StrengthOnTop said:

That's CTR Manipulation and it works wonder.

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Does it really? Is this an actual thing? Do people still do it?

Yadirabotu said:

No, because Google detects automated traffic and prioritizes real user engagement and behavior, and violations may result in penalties.

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Yeah , I think so it works on this way!!!!

I don´t know how does it work today, but the original Google search algorithms are not based in what the people is searching but in references.
(Which pages are referencing yours and how important are them).
Then also keywords apply. (Words in the search or linked to the words in the search that match with your content.

But I don´t think that a lot of user searching a page for a day will make that page higher in the positioning.

VisualA said:

Does it really? Is this an actual thing? Do people still do it?

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Yup. It is really effective.

Yeah it's going on for years it's called CTR manipulation. What you described is the basic theory/skeleton of the system which worked years ago but google already knows about it so it needs to be more complicated and advanced nowadays. There are even some services in the marketplace here but I have not tested how good they are.

The most important thing is it needs to mimic a real user who visits the kind of sites that you are trying to target. And google knows everything about the user group.

> What browsers they use typically?
Do they use anti detect browsers? Or they use chrome, Firefox, safari?

> What their browsing history looks like?
What videos they watch? What sites they frequently visit? What services they use? Do they have Facebook? Instagram or any social media?

> Are they signed in to Google?
Account age? Saved passwords? Saved devices? Gender? User age? Preferences? Interests?

You see there are so many ways google can detect bullshit bot farms vs. real users. So the system which works must have to be sophisticated.

Often called CTR manipulation, and could backfire in most cases