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Honest question: why not? Surely identifying sites that have disproportionate organic traffic relative to search engine referrals can only be good in identifying places people actually want to visit online?

As a webmaster I would opt-in for this sort of thing in a heartbeat if I thought it would help your algorithms understand my site. I'm sure Joel Spolsky and most other legitimate online publishers would do so too.




Google can already calculate this ratio of organic traffic to search engine traffic using the Google Toolbar stats - no need for Google Analytics.


It will result in a positive feedback loop.




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