They experienced a drop in traffic and queries

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Some site owners who decided to test "Behavioural factors" began to report shortcomings of the system. Searchengines.guru user anstrem highlighted the following problems: Visitors who came to the site thanks to the Behavioural Factors system spend almost the same amount of time on the site. Users act in almost the same way. The actions of users have signs of being algorithmic. Anstrem explained the problems by the fact that the actions of users were imitated by a robot.


Other webmasters assumed that it was manual cheating: real users received typical philippines email list tasks, so they behaved the same on the site. In early December, website owners began reporting negative consequences of using "Behavioral Factors." falling out of the top search results. In response to inquiries from the site owners, Yandex confirmed that the sanctions are related to the manipulation of behavioral factors.


In responses to webmasters, Platon Shchukin mentions SeoPult among the services that use incorrect promotion methods. It looks like Yandex has defeated yet another revolutionary algorithm-bypassing technology. And without even breaking a sweat. The search engine has shown generosity and promised to lift the sanctions if site owners give up the cheating. Of course, they will have to wait a few months and suffer without traffic from the largest search engine in RuNet.