I'm new to ad words (2 weeks) and am very happy so far. I am a Realtor

on a island in NW Washington State, trying to reach off-island real
estate buyers who want a second home on the island or relocate here.
Between the two major search engenes, I am getting about 50 clicks a
day (about 1% of the Impr.) - 90% from Google. I've noticed that 50%
of the daily entries into my site are for 30 seconds or less, and they
are mostly between the hours of 11 am and 1 pm. I think they are
searching at work and bookmarking my site, because I have about 100
entries per day (verses 50 paid clicks), and the longer site visits are

beginning to add up - many over 1 hour now.

My question: I've read that Google ranks sites positive when people
spend a lot of time in the site - is that only when they enter the site

after searching, or do they have a way to know if people enter directly

and spend a lot of time?

Thanks, Gary
http://www.garyingram.net/

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> I'm new to ad words (2 weeks) and am very happy so far. I am a Realtor
>
> on a island in NW Washington State, trying to reach off-island real
> estate buyers who want a second home on the island or relocate here.
> Between the two major search engenes, I am getting about 50 clicks a
> day (about 1% of the Impr.) - 90% from Google. I've noticed that 50%
> of the daily entries into my site are for 30 seconds or less, and they
> are mostly between the hours of 11 am and 1 pm. I think they are
> searching at work and bookmarking my site, because I have about 100
> entries per day (verses 50 paid clicks), and the longer site visits are
>
> beginning to add up - many over 1 hour now.
>
> My question: I've read that Google ranks sites positive when people
> spend a lot of time in the site - is that only when they enter the site
>
> after searching, or do they have a way to know if people enter directly
>
> and spend a lot of time?
>
> Thanks, Gary
> http://www.garyingram.net/

There are many aspects taken into consideration for a PageRank (PR)
score, but to my knowledge, this does not directly relate to the
websites performance with Adwords.
Your website has PR0 ~ but this is normal when a website is just a few
weeks old.
For a good PR score, you will need many quality websites linking to
your website:
http://www.dmoz.org would be a good place to start.
However, if you want to be high in the search engine index, you will
also need to optimize your website, a few suggestions are here:
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/cgi-bin/w...garyingram.net
You have provide some beautiful images on your website, which look
great to the human viewer, but a search engine robot does not see them
in the same way ~ it can only work on the text string of words you
provide.
If someone is searching for property in your area, it is unlikely they
will enter the word "gary ingram" into a search bar, if they don't know
you. They are more likely to use keywords such as property, real
estate, Whidbey Island, Northwest Washington State.
If you can you should include these keywords in your page TITLE and
DESCRIPTION tags. Also a few sentences on the page including keywords
to get the human viewer and search engine interested.