User Behavior Signals

Actions taken by searchers — such as staying on a page without returning to search results, or clicking back and refining a query — that Google interprets as signals of content quality and relevance.

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"If you go to Google, you type something in, you visit a site, spend some time on that site and you don't return to th..."
"If you go to Google, you type something in, you visit a site, spend some time on that site and you don't return to the search results page... That's a signal to Google that that URL answered your question."