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		epanchin on June 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currentl... Time spent on website? Is that why answers are always buried in long articles or walls of text? Seems a horrible metric.

Kalium on June 12, 2019 [–]

Google uses that to a limited extent - if someone returns to the search results within a few second of clicking a link, the link wasn't what they wanted.

Publishers definitely use it more heavily.

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