Originally Posted by TheDoc

You said "It gives the users what they want (lets not get into the skim thing). "

You are correct, give the users what they want. The problem is, when you use a script on your thumbnails, google doesn't know if the user got what they wanted. How does google know if a gallery over a trade is what the surfer wanted, on your website?

This is called bounce rate actually. When a visitor hits a TGP, they click a thumb, it opens in a new window. (gallery or trade) google sees the visitor is no longer on your website, and the bounce and exit rates increase.

Sites/pages with a lower bounce/exit rate, are going to get listed above you. That's why a site with less backlinks and age can out rank your ass.


This is why tubes, are doing so well... the surfer never leaves the site, the video keeps them on single pages for long periods of time (killing the exit/bounce calculation). The surfer returns, at very high rates, they look up the same keywords in google, giving that ranking more and more 'personal' search value... moving you down the list even more.


TGP/MGP's are dropping like flies because they suck in the eyes of google. It has ZERO to do with the script. Hell, GOOGLE uses tracking scripts on serps.