Traffic Sources

[mf]

Greetings,

I am wondering where everyone else gets their traffic from. Some of the sources where my traffic comes from are:

- Forums (mostly)
- Advertisement (some traffic)
- Articles that I wrote and submitted to ezines (once in a while)
- Search engine (rarely)

Also, does link popularty have a direct relationship with how much traffic your site/domain should get?

Want to hear your opinions.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

1) Yahoo search results
2) Google search results (Wish this was higher; working on it)
3) Other search results
4) Expired traffic
5) Others' links to my sites
6) Type-ins
7) Type-oh's
8) Paid links (adwords, etc.)
9) Submitted links (Linkdumps, blogs, etc.)
10) Forums and similar

I think that's most of them, and roughly in order...

-Allan :gl:

 

[tolkein]

Mine (in no particular order):

- forums
- link exchanges
- search engines
- blogs

No type-ohs unfortunately

 

[harkster]

1) Google search results
2) MSN search results -- some sites higher than the big G
3) Other search results
4) Links from wherever
5) Misc. little dabs from here & there

BTW I have 1 site (3.5-4.5K uniques/mo) running about a 5% bookmark rate -- would think that helps the count a bit. So might should include return traffic.

 

[deet]

Google, Yahoo, MSN.

 

[deu12000]

For me it's usually MSN, Yahoo, other sites (forums and just sites that link to me), then last of all google.

 

[yoink78]

For me, I find that posting about my website in forums brings in a lot of users. This has worked well for me in the past and better than search engines.

 

[monRa]

Mostly from Forums and search engineS!

 

[DarkNeal128]

mostly from word of mouth or instant messenging or a forum

 

[Spirix]

I get mine from word of mouth, skin copywrites, and others forums.

 

[NetworkTown.Net]

forums
advertise in places
google ad-word
search's

 

[peter phillips]

Forums,
Link exchanges,
Directories submissions,
Search engines.

 

[cache]

how do I know where the traffic is coming from?

 

[Reppy]

Google (get at least 200 uniques a day from people searching for 'babes' plus people searching for celebrity names).
Forums
Cool sites
Blogs (other peoples)
Newspapers and Magazines
Link exchanges
Word of mouth
Spam (just kidding)

 

[mole]

Type-ins (or direct navigation) as a means of acquiring "traffic" seems to be just a small percentage of where members in this thread see their traffic source coming from.

It is estimated that 10-15% of all Web traffic originates from type-ins.

TM or Typo squatting appears to be where the real type-in traffic generators are i.e. surfers think they are getting to something they know or have read from somewhere else, turns out they got the name wrong and ended up on a PPC page instead.

In other words, serious type-in traffic ACTUALLY comes from sponging off the work of others, and the Internet default, .COM, is the extension of choice for this parasitic feeding.

 

[deu12000]

how do I know where the traffic is coming from?

A lot of hosting comes with stats programs. Look and see if you have a stats program in your control panel if you have one.

 

[Ray]

strange to most.. i get about 40 hits per day off of yahoo search, but none from google everyday

 

[scrsteven]

old links are the main source of my traffic. it's weak, I know. I have little SEO or time for it, so my main work is buying and selling names.

 

[mf]

Its strange, I'm beginning to get some traffic from Google but none from Yahoo or MSN.

 

[Momo]

22.9 % from Direct address/Bookmarks
9.7 % from Search Engines - very low, yeah
67.2 % from Links from External Page