Website Traffic: Where Does Your Traffic Come From?

Website Traffic

In one of my private coaching groups of which I am a member, the group was polled on where our traffic was coming from. This group doesn’t really have too many newbies, it is for intermediate and advanced marketers. So I found the results interesting. Choices included: Podcasts, Videos, social marketing, Article Syndication, Search Engines, Links From Other Sites, and Other. The top two sources of traffic for members which represented 70% of the results, came from the search engines and from article syndication. Both of which are content driven.

1. Search engine traffic comes from people who have found your content organically through a search online. There has to be content with keyword phrases that exists in order for you to be found. Rarely in this day and age can you just rank for keywords based on your website title or url. You need to have content living on your site to make an impact on the search engines.

2. Article syndication occurs when someone republishes one of your articles on their website, newsletter, etc. So that just goes to show you that whether you are just beginning or have been at this a long time — writing content (articles) is what ultimately will bring you REAL and long-lasting traffic that visits your site again and again.

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1 First choice voucher codes December 6, 2009 at 5:51 am: My traffic comes from Social media like facebook and twitter, blog comments and some of my traffic comes from mouths of each other.
2 Rome hotels December 8, 2009 at 2:46 pm: You have developed solid points on article syndication and web trafficking. I appreciate the way tou adopted to address your readers.
3 Article Submission Software January 12, 2010 at 10:35 pm: Article directories is one of our top sources along with google and web directories.
4 newlookvouchercodes March 23, 2010 at 5:11 pm: I have a political site where the traffic was mostly facebook driven (twitter delivers little, but seems to be the beginning of hits and influences other facebook friends). Apart from that its normally around 20% referalls, 80% google (yahoo and bing are tiny in the uk).
5 lisaangelettie March 23, 2010 at 6:45 pm: Interesting that you get a lot of traffic from Facebook and not
Twitter so much. It's different for every niche:) Thanks for coming by.
6 No xplode reviews May 2, 2010 at 2:48 pm: give the job to SEO experts…to attract traffic