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> Their algorithms are based more on the age of your domain and other technicalities

One of which is "dwell time" and another is "bounce rate". Both those correlate highly with how well the site matches the users intention.



And that's why (e-mail, ad, notification, cookie) popups work that great: because the time it takes to actually see the content is increased and thus is the dwell time.

Bounce is mainly irrelevant as we mostly use Google to find a particular page on a website.




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