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SitePoint Wizard
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Location: Spring, Texas
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Do you rely on search engines for traffic?
This brings up a nice little discussion, because I've seen many websites come and go throughout my webmaster career, and I've seen some websites die because of their rankings going down and such.
So, I'd love to ask all those webmasters out there if they rely on search engines for traffic or not. As we all know, getting ranked, and ranked well on search engines can help or break a site, so I'm one to say that some of my partners' websites rely soley on search engines and word of mouth, while my sites rely on word of mouth. How about you? |
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SitePoint Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Hmm.. I really don't rely only to search engines for traffic..I also does other things... like social networking.
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SitePoint Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
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SEO Traffic is the finest ...... and most targeted but also it is so undependable that no can just sit and see his traffic coming only from search engines.
so smo, word of mouth, ppc should go along...... |
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SitePoint Wizard
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He's No Good To Me Dead
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Location: Slave I
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SitePoint Addict
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Yeah i do rely on search engines traffic
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SitePoint Wizard
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Search engine traffic is the best free traffic. Paid traffic like adwords delivers better traffic if done correct but the cost has to monitored.
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hi
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Location: Shelton, CT
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It's best to rely on direct traffic =]. Get visitors to find you via a search engine and provide them with content that makes them bookmark your site.
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phpLD Fanatic
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Location: Atlanta
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A few years ago I relied more on search engines. They still provide me with some excellent conversions, but now my strategy is much more diversified.
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SitePoint Enthusiast
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Traffic from search engines is free and first step for doing online business.
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He's No Good To Me Dead
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Location: Slave I
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I don't know if I would say it is the first step. A pres release and advertising will be a far more effective way to start since it takes a while to get any traction at all in the search engines.
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SitePoint Zealot
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O Rly??
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Location: Milwaukee
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At work - site that gets over 1M visitors a year.
40% SE 30% Type in/bookmark 30% Other sites Other sites and SE convert at nearly the same rate and type-in traffic converts at half of those rates. |
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SitePoint Zealot
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Location: NY | US
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almost 50%
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SitePoint Wizard
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Location: Derbyshire - UK
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Personal site (last month)...
10% Direct Traffic 49% Referrals 41% Search Engines Ideally, I'd like the direct traffic to be a little more but the volume is increasing every month in each area so it's all heading in the right direction and not reliant on one particular area for visitors. |
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SitePoint Enthusiast
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my stats are a bit the same csswiz
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