Source of Website Traffic

coolpix · 07-21-2005, 02:35 AM

So which one is the main source of traffic for your website? Please vote and comment thanks.

invincible.vib · 07-21-2005, 02:52 AM

Allthough I have voted in favour of google coz it is
the best and it has a highest market share too.
But we shouldn't forget yahoo as well as msn.
Coz these two together make up around 50%
of search engine market.And yahoo is also
very much popular.

A detailed market share of search engine can be
found here
http://searchenginewatch.com/reports...le.php/2156451

xmeltrut · 07-21-2005, 03:36 AM

I went for MSN as it brings some of my sites loads of traffic. I think it's because most SEO's have ignored it so far so it still has the freedom to produce useful results.

EbookLover · 07-21-2005, 06:11 AM

Originally Posted by invincible.vib

Allthough I have voted in favour of google coz it is
the best

invincible.vib · 07-21-2005, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by zquest

Apart from my personal openion it has 48% market share.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/parking-and-traffic-monetization/108496-source-of-website-traffic.html
And you can try any SEO forums they all rate Google the best.

**Michelle** · 07-21-2005, 08:33 AM

I still cant work out how to get blooming traffic

SimpleDomaining · 07-21-2005, 08:42 AM

Its simple. have a forum in it. when go to some classifieds and register it there. Every refresh in forum putting you more and more up in those kind of classifieds, and people are coming. Personally I registered my forum in my ethnic community classifieds. It gave me 800 active users there. And site is already on PR4.

invincible.vib · 07-21-2005, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by gugush

Its simple. have a forum in it. when go to some classifieds and register it there. Every refresh in forum putting you more and more up in those kind of classifieds, and people are coming. Personally I registered my forum in my ethnic community classifieds. It gave me 800 active users there. And site is already on PR4.

Yaa this is also one way of getting traffic.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=108496
But the most important thing is that you should optimise your page first.
Then continuously add relevent contents frequently.
And have a lots of backlinks.
You can get a good search engine ranking by just optimising page and having a lots of backlinks.

You can add forums too.A better place will be add as a subdomain as www.forums.yoursitename.com

.And adding blogs will be a great advantage to your site.You can have it as a subdomain as
www.blogs.yoursite.com

And if you will link your site properly then adding more pages can really help in increasing sites ranking.

Put a footer in that put all the important links like links to your main page, and all the important categories, links to blog, links to forum etc..

And if you are going to have a forum or a blog then don't miss to syndicate the contents.If you know about RSS otherwise see this post I think it will get you some basic knowledge about RSS.
http://vib-gluons.blogspot.com/2005/...rss-feeds.html

And if you have a dynamic website try to put a sitemap in the footer of the page.

downloadfreak · 07-21-2005, 09:03 AM

One of my sites:

Referrer Totals: Searchengines (unique visits)
Google 62334 88.52%
Yahoo 4656 6.61%
MSN Search 2554 3.63%
AltaVista 287 0.41%
AOL Search 259 0.37%
Dogpile 79 0.11%
Google Images 78 0.11%
MyWay 42 0.06%
Search.com 37 0.05%

slaughterbeck · 07-21-2005, 01:21 PM

I know this doesn’t answer your question but I get 90% of my traffic from links with cross-promotional sites.

StudioWorks · 07-21-2005, 01:34 PM

Hey,

Well Google deliveres most of my traffic but I've seen some good visits lately from Yahoo.

- SW

hotrod12 · 07-21-2005, 01:35 PM

I do get alot of traffic from Yahoo but I still get the bulk from word-of-mouth.

dabb · 07-21-2005, 01:57 PM

For relatively new sites, MSN for sure. If you don't have a super popular keyword, it's pretty easy to get on the first page or two at MSN rather quickly.

DJ-Sound · 07-21-2005, 02:00 PM

msn and yahoo is where the majority of my website's visitors come from. Once google picks up on my link building campaigns I'm sure google will also provide a good amount of visitors.

edits · 07-21-2005, 02:39 PM

If it wasn't for me advertising on Google, then I'd say msn as they provide the most "Free" search engine traffic. Sites been up n runnin about 8 weeks, I'm on the first or 2nd page for every major keyword for the industry.

Oblivion. · 07-21-2005, 02:48 PM

Direct address / Bookmarks - 90.7%
Links from an Internet Search Engine - 6.1%
Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines) - 3%

(Google brings most SE traffic, closely followed by MSN)

majinbuu1023 · 07-21-2005, 03:05 PM

I get the most from links

but I still get alot from google and other search engines

Cheers

GeneCosta · 07-21-2005, 03:10 PM

Word of mouth for me. I usually don't link up with another site. I'll be attempting it this time though.

Venolus · 07-21-2005, 05:01 PM

I get traffic mainly from Google and Yahoo

Umer · 07-21-2005, 05:04 PM

Google

Crusader · 07-22-2005, 03:45 AM

Although Google has been the main source of traffic it helps to have "big" sites mention you and your content every once and a while. DMOZ listings are constantly copied so that generates some extra attention too.

invincible.vib · 07-22-2005, 02:17 PM

Yaa yahoo and msn are good for new sites coz google doesn't index new sites and newly registered domain names have to face one more problem(popurly known as) "Google Sandbox theory ".
For more details on google sandbox theory-
http://vib-gluons.blogspot.com

Filtered · 07-22-2005, 07:07 PM

For me it depends on the site. My main site get's most of it's traffic from word of mouth. But a few others get traffic from google..Mainly google..

View Poll Results: Which one brings the most traffic to your site?
Yahoo	3	10.34%
MSN	4	13.79%
Google	12	41.38%
AOL search	0	0%
Words of mouth	6	20.69%
Links from other sites	4	13.79%
Others	0	0%
Voters: 29. You may not vote on this poll

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xmeltrut NamePros Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 42 Follow @chrisworfolk	I went for MSN as it brings some of my sites loads of traffic. I think it's because most SEO's have ignored it so far so it still has the freedom to produce useful results. __________________ Chris - Blog - Foundation - Websites

07-21-2005, 08:42 AM	#7 (permalink)
SimpleDomaining Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Phoenix AZ Posts: 1,628 Follow @simpledomaining	Its simple. have a forum in it. when go to some classifieds and register it there. Every refresh in forum putting you more and more up in those kind of classifieds, and people are coming. Personally I registered my forum in my ethnic community classifieds. It gave me 800 active users there. And site is already on PR4. __________________ naturalskincareproducts.com

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slaughterbeck Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lansing MI Posts: 2,544	I know this doesn’t answer your question but I get 90% of my traffic from links with cross-promotional sites. __________________ Feed the Children I love my country, I love my soldiers, I hate my war.

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07-21-2005, 02:52 AM	#2 (permalink)
invincible.vib NamePros Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 38	Allthough I have voted in favour of google coz it is the best and it has a highest market share too. But we shouldn't forget yahoo as well as msn. Coz these two together make up around 50% of search engine market.And yahoo is also very much popular. A detailed market share of search engine can be found here http://searchenginewatch.com/reports...le.php/2156451

07-21-2005, 08:33 AM	#6 (permalink)
Michelle Be Happy... Don't Worry Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: UK Posts: 16,273	I still cant work out how to get blooming traffic

07-21-2005, 09:03 AM	#9 (permalink)
downloadfreak Account Suspended Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Norfolk, England. Posts: 1,057	One of my sites: Referrer Totals: Searchengines (unique visits) Google 62334 88.52% Yahoo 4656 6.61% MSN Search 2554 3.63% AltaVista 287 0.41% AOL Search 259 0.37% Dogpile 79 0.11% Google Images 78 0.11% MyWay 42 0.06% Search.com 37 0.05%

07-21-2005, 01:34 PM	#11 (permalink)
StudioWorks no one lives forever Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: NamePros Posts: 8,075	Hey, Well Google deliveres most of my traffic but I've seen some good visits lately from Yahoo. - SW __________________ epagini.com mexicorealty.net softwarepit.com yadasoftware.com

07-21-2005, 01:35 PM	#12 (permalink)
hotrod12 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: USA Posts: 1,149	I do get alot of traffic from Yahoo but I still get the bulk from word-of-mouth.

07-21-2005, 01:57 PM	#13 (permalink)
dabb NamePros Regular Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 345	For relatively new sites, MSN for sure. If you don't have a super popular keyword, it's pretty easy to get on the first page or two at MSN rather quickly.

07-21-2005, 02:00 PM	#14 (permalink)
DJ-Sound Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 1,812	msn and yahoo is where the majority of my website's visitors come from. Once google picks up on my link building campaigns I'm sure google will also provide a good amount of visitors.

07-21-2005, 02:39 PM	#15 (permalink)
edits Account Suspended Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 73	If it wasn't for me advertising on Google, then I'd say msn as they provide the most "Free" search engine traffic. Sites been up n runnin about 8 weeks, I'm on the first or 2nd page for every major keyword for the industry.

07-21-2005, 02:48 PM	#16 (permalink)
Oblivion. NamePros Regular Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: UK Posts: 408	Direct address / Bookmarks - 90.7% Links from an Internet Search Engine - 6.1% Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines) - 3% (Google brings most SE traffic, closely followed by MSN)

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07-21-2005, 03:05 PM	#17 (permalink)
majinbuu1023 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 3,746	I get the most from links but I still get alot from google and other search engines Cheers __________________ WowHumor.net - Funny World of Warcraft Pictures

07-21-2005, 03:10 PM	#18 (permalink)
GeneCosta Account Suspended Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Dallas, Texas Posts: 963	Word of mouth for me. I usually don't link up with another site. I'll be attempting it this time though.

07-21-2005, 05:01 PM	#19 (permalink)
Venolus NamePros Regular Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Kerala, India Posts: 858	I get traffic mainly from Google and Yahoo __________________ :yell: Script Installations for $7 :yell: Forum Installations for $5 :yell: Forum Modification Installation and Custom Skin Designs. :yell: All Now @ Venolus.com

07-21-2005, 05:04 PM	#20 (permalink)
Umer NamePros Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Toronto, ON Posts: 175	Google

07-22-2005, 03:45 AM	#21 (permalink)
Crusader Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 1,257	Although Google has been the main source of traffic it helps to have "big" sites mention you and your content every once and a while. DMOZ listings are constantly copied so that generates some extra attention too. __________________ Near Fantastica \| Matthew Good - Vancouver TS Design Group - Vancouver, BC based Graphic Design >> Do you Frawlik? <<

07-22-2005, 02:17 PM	#22 (permalink)
invincible.vib NamePros Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 38	Yaa yahoo and msn are good for new sites coz google doesn't index new sites and newly registered domain names have to face one more problem(popurly known as) "Google Sandbox theory ". For more details on google sandbox theory- http://vib-gluons.blogspot.com

07-22-2005, 07:07 PM	#23 (permalink)
Filtered Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: NY Posts: 1,054	For me it depends on the site. My main site get's most of it's traffic from word of mouth. But a few others get traffic from google..Mainly google.. __________________ NuScope Media NameMixer.com\|Domain Portfolio

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