Thanks for your reply. Interesting stuff. I have ran so many tests with regular organic and only one tool back in the day worked for a short time. I gave up trying to rank in regular organic but one day I may try some local stuff.
The results are impressive, if you ever get into GMB try it.
Well, you can't be too sure about the level of the demand until you try to sell in small scale.
Maybe I will do a soft release here. Need to ensure I can scale first though.
I don't understand why people focusing too much on CTR, when it's expensive and don't give results. I understand you should try, but for me, never makes any sense.
I think Google is SO SMART to figure out real traffic vs robot because there are a lot of footprints in the devices.
Anyway, I'm not saying anything against you, just giving my advice. Thanks for your post, because it really helps to know that CTR is not the way.
I can prove that it works when done correctly. You literally can see results within a couple of days using only CTR. Likewise once you pull it away most results go away.
A lot of tools just don't work in my experience, which is why I think people don't think it works. You are right, Google is super good at finding out what traffic is fake.
I'm about a week away from launching a cloud platform, keep an eye out in the marketplace I'll be creating a bst.
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Very interesting, are you using selenium?
Yes. That’s why current CTR manipulation only works for GMB.
Yes, that and YouTube. There's also one other area of Google that uses it too but it's not an algorithm a lot of people on here use.
Google now patched up CTR booster making it irrelevant to rank you. It's the new update.
Yes, easiest way to tell is the lack of results. I've argued with the new owner many times and he gets super defensive. They use selenium and claim they can hide all selenium drivers but I don't believe them. I am sure if I tried I could identify fingerprints from their software, Google can obviously tell.
Your be better of programming a bot to do reviews on your gmb accounts.
I no google don't publish all reviews but there a winner to get indexed heigh local gmb.
Only a fort.
I never seen any post on my private gmb FB with ctr not worth the pain.
Real optimized accounts seem to work properly spot on.
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I do reviews too but don't find that they do much. GMB CTR is always consistent for me, send me a PM to your FB group, I'd love to talk to you about the results I'm seeing. I'm not here to sell anything.
What exactly do you know?
Could probably automate with Browser Automation Studio + ML
BAS is super powerful and I've been meaning to dive into it. I know someone using it for Google reviews, do driving direction from phone emulators on a vps, and all kinds of wicked shit.
BAS and ML would probably work, I moved away from ML but it definitely provided results. I also tried phone emulators but those leave fingerprints, I tried for a super long time doing rooted emulators but I could never get any results from it. I did have luck running rooted android phones to do CTR but again never had drives work.
There are some Chinese companies that have iPhone software with jailbroken phones that change iPhone identifiers with each restart of the phone, they use this to game amazon reviews. I could not find a way to get the software to run CTR though.
CTR stops working for SEO. Completely. It's a waste now. That's for Google.
YouTube is detectable as CTR but im pretty sure it still works somehow
Say that to all of the increases I get in GMB rankings then.
What I'm saying is, you said their recent update patched something with CTRB. What exactly did Google patch? Chromium?
CTRB uses Chromium + 4g proxies. Not sure what there is to patch. Other than unnatural behavior patterns, I'm not seeing what they can detect.
They didn't patch chromium, they caught selenium drivers and were able to identify the traffic. If you could just use Chromium and 4G proxies then it would be super easy, but what about all of the other fingerprints that Google can see from a browser?
