Does Google considers the direct traffic on the pages with rel canonical tags?

[vtmoz]

Hi community,

Let's say there is a duplicate page (A) pointing to original page (B) using rel canonical tag. Pagerank will be passed from Page A to B as the content is very similar and Google honours it hopefully. I wonder how Google treats the direct traffic on the duplicate Page A. We know that direct traffic is also an important ranking factor (correct me if I'm wrong). If the direct traffic is high on the duplicate page A, then how Google considers it? Will there be any score given to original page B?

Thanks

[ThompsonPaul]

Direct traffic isn't a ranking factor, VT. There's no way it can be, as it would far to easy a signal to fake and abuse.

Paul

[jasongmcmahon]

They will both rank, but the original page will have the the higher priority.