Traffic Generating to your site for SEO ranking

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Does using bots to generate visits to your website and thereby increasing your money site's statistics actually help with ranking on google?

I know there have been lot's of discussions everywhere on the web. Clearly Google does look at how much activity your money site receives. But what does Google actually do with this info?

Does it directly affect the ranking algorithm? If so, can it successfully be faked? Any actual case studies that I can look at, where a bot was used?

Obviously if a website is ranking very well it will naturally have the traffic that is needed. So In my case, I am looking at a moneysite that ranks ok, but should do much better. If traffic and other activity factors such as social signals do not directly impact, are they used to filter out red flags by Google, such as PBN's that have high DA/PA/CF/TF, etc... but not much traffic/activity?

Fake traffic doesn't help ranking but it has other uses.
Google can tell the difference between real and fake traffic, no current bot truly emulates human behavior/surfing.

This is my opinion after much testing, others may disagree but they are unlikely to convince me otherwise without real data.

Asif,
Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate your opinion.

Google clearly seems to take user experience into account. Bounce rate, time spent on site, users who go back to search results after visiting your page, etc. Fake visitors won't be of much use here (might have other uses, but).

If you're looking for SEO benefits, try to get real traffic from qualified users. Give them useful info and make sure they stay on your site. If your content is really good, people may start sharing your pages, which will give you SEO benefits.

Maybe you can try build a bot to visit your site from your backlinks, there are some rumors around this, no idea if it will come into real ranking scene or ....well

I don't think so