Pogo-Stick or not?

[max.favilli]

After watching this interesting whiteboard friday on pogo-stick: http://moz.com/blog/solving-the-pogo-stick-problem-whiteboard-friday

I am left with a question... When users bounce back to search results and click elsewhere is a pogo-stick situation, ok. But if the user spend 2 minutes on the page before to go back, is that still pogo-stick?

[RyanPurkey]

Nope. The way the search engines might "catch on" as Rand mentions in his WBF is that the search engines know when the person leaves to go look at your site and when they come back. So while you might still show a bounce because they had no interaction other than staying for 2 minutes, the search engine sees an exit >> 2 minutes >> a return. A pogo-stick behavior would be exit >> 1.2 seconds >> return, and for a LOT of users doing so.

[max.favilli]

Thanks Ryan.