HTML email and unique visits to my site via viewing remote content Options

[jh_design]

Hello,

Hope all is going well.

Still sorting the best way to create a HTML email newsletter. Seems the easiest way is to build the email content on my site, then copy and paste it into an email. Wondering if there's an added advantage by doing this... when the email recipient opens content via "view remote content," will Google register the transfer of image(s) as a visit to my site?

Thanks much for any assistance.

Have a great day,
James

[Christian J]

If a web page uses the Google Analytics javascript, Google should detect everytime that page is loaded in a browser (and also the referrer header, except when typing the URL). This assuming the user doesn't block Google's spyware scripts, of course.

But again I don't know if page visits affect Google's ranking of that page, that would sound like positive feedback loop to me. What Google does/did use to do was ranking a page by the number of other sites linking to it (nowadays that simple principle seems to be skewed by all sorts of things though, from the user's location and previous search history to Google's political bias).

[pandy]

But he doesn't use Google for stats. At least that's how I interpreted the answer to my question. Besides, if they really use that for page ranking it would be very screwed up.