It’s time for another ProBlogger Poll.
What is the Biggest Source of Traffic to Your Blog?
Is it search engines? If so which one? Is it RSS subscribers and loyal readers? Is it Social Media sites (and which one is it)? Do other blogs and sites send most? Or is it some other source of traffic?
If you want to base your answer on a period of time – do it for April (so far).
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I’m looking forward to seeing the results of this one. Feel free to expand on your response further in the comments on this post.
Stumble, Digg, Entrecard.
For my main site I’m gonna say Google. It’s nice getting free traffic! :)
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Just to elaborate on my vote, stumbleapon gives me most of my traffic on a daily basis.
Well technically most of my traffic comes from search engines, but I’ve had one article that made it big on stumbleupon and digg that brings in a steady stream of traffic that is still higher than anything else – So I guess social media sites are my highest refer, but my biggest source of organic traffic is Google, followed closely by referrals from forums and blogs.
Google.
That’s what I get for putting a picture of Courtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain in one of my posts. :(
Primary source of traffic on my blog is google. However I have noticed that traffic from Entrecard and Blog Catalog have increased on my blog.
1. google
2. yahoo
3. images.google.com
It seems to be RSS readers and Google for me. I’m a little disappointed that “jaiku invite” gets me more search traffic than my actual name, I guess it’s something for me to work on!
My biggest source of traffic to my blog http://www.simplewayoflife.net is obviously Google. I am trying hard to get more refferal visitors to my website as search engine traffic is not a reliable on in the long term. Can anyone any ideas on getting more refferal traffic to a website?
The bulk of my traffic comes from organic google searches. Even the bulk of my referring traffic is from Google Reader. A tiny proportion of referrals is links from other sites. I’m working on that!
It’s image searches via Google. I get tons of that.
75% of my traffic is from search engines with Google being about 90%.
I have worked on increasing the traffic from the other 25% because I would like to have a balance of 50/50 from search engines and other sources.
Of course, blogging is a long-term project, so it may take some time to arrive at that 50/50 split.
about 60% of my traffic comes from Google, and the remaining 40% is split between stumbleupon and repeat traffic. SU did/does more for my traffic than any other social networking…plus i’m addicted to it. ha.
I’ve gone with Google although the main referrer is actually Google images – some of the wallpapers I’ve created seem to rank pretty highly for certain keywords.
The second place referrer is a site that featured a link to an article I wrote about 3 years ago. I hardly get any referrers from my RSS feed but I think that’s because I offer a full feed so no one feels the need to click through.
google all the way, that’s bulk of it
For a new site, it’s fairly close between other referring sites and repeat subscribers.
As the site becomes more established, I start to see more organic traffic.
1. StumbleUpon
2. Google
3. Yahoo
Then plenty of other social sites. Funny, the trend has moved from Google to SU over the past month…
If you ever run this poll again, you might consider two other categories. Most traffic comes to my blog from my email newsletter and direct (postal) mail, followed closely by Google.
I get a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon and then Google.
Google at 68%
Direct traffic at 10%
Yahoo at 9%
etc. at 13%
Google makes up 40% of my traffic. Stumbleupon adds another 12%. Direct visits are another 9%. Humor-Blogs.com rounds out the top referrals with 7%.
I think it shows the power of doing a little good SEO. So many seem to think that’s a bad word these days.
Twitter brings in the most.
Almost 50% comes from search engines with the majority being Google. 40% comes from referring sites. The rest is direct traffic.
It’s google, stumbleupon and dzone.com for me
darren,
most of my traffic comes from STUMBLEUPON and DIGG…
this is because my blog are new, and didn’t receive any pagerank yet… ;)
Google sends me the maximum traffic.
50% referrals from other sites.
44% search engines (of which 42.5% comes from Google!)
Yahoo is 0.86% of my search traffic, less than referrals from Flickr.
Why was I the first one to vote yet the 10th commenter? But yah, Google For Me!
At the moment, social media makes up the bulk (70%+) of my traffic to my main site.
Used to be Google, but I got hacked last month (part of the mass hack that Technorati were warning about) and Google traffic has gone from 3-400 uniques per day to about 30.
Looking on the bright side, it’s forced me to really pay attention to how I can develop other traffic sources so that, when Google gets round to reconsidering my site and the Google Juice comes back, I should be in a much stronger long-term position.
95% of my traffic is from google searches. It drives me nuts that I can’t hold on to readers to come back for more. My site is all about Home Improvement so I tend to find people searching for specific information about DIY tips and how to’s for common home improvement projects. I just wish I could get them to return more often. My traffic has grown steadily each month but all from searches. I wish there was an easy way to keep even 10% of those readers coming back for more.
Definitely Google. I know you’ve highlighted the dangers of over-reliance on search engines in the past, and am working to change this, but for now, Google’s my friend.
Google gets over 75% of my traffic, Yahoo gets under 0.1% :D
About 43% of my traffic comes from referring sites such as fishing forums, fishing site directories, blogcatalog, etc…
38% is from search engines… with probably 99% from google since I just got indexed in msn and yahoo…
The last 20% is direct traffic…
Haven’t had much luck with StumbleUpon or Digg.
Source of traffic appears to be from Stumble Upon now. Maybe it’s the case for my site because I’m focusing less on SEO.
Surprisingly, it’s the wikipedia article involving on my niche (not my actual blog). Stumbleupon and Google are a close second.
Google.
According to, erm, Google.
Google has been big lately (I wrote a post about the marketing scheme behind Lindsay Lohans Sex Tape Scandal with Callum Best – and these seem to be pretty popular keywords these days), but sometimes traffic from social media sites peaks with thousands of hits outnumbering Google by far.
Most of my traffic comes from word of mouth. My goal is to spread my sites name within the Real Estate industry by contacting both Realtors and Loan Officers.
Interesting Poll, I do get some from Google but but the majority is made up of referrals, subscribers and visitors from distributed articles.
YouTube (!) by far (about one-third of the traffic). Search engines account for only about 15% of the traffic (according to Google Analytics and Feedburner).
#1: Google
#2: ??? It sends more traffic than DIGG.
Currently most of my traffic is from subscribers, however, I recently uploaded an All in One SEO plugin that seems to have lifted the amount of search engine traffic I am getting.
Directaccess 40.68%
twitter.com (referral) 25.42%
google (organic) 8.47%
Although, I think it will change when the number of visitors will surpass 120 a month :)
Then I expect it will be weighted more heavily toward search engines.
Google for actual pageviews (about 70% of traffic comes from search, 96% of which is Google), and about the same amount through my feed (Feedburner).
Google by a small margin
80 percent Google, 10 percent rss feeds, 5 percent yahoo, 5 various other sites.
Since my topic is so specialized, my top referalls are the wordpressmu forums where I help out, google, the MU section of the WordPress Codex and then Stumbleupon .
images.google.com, second place: other blogs
I recently gave away a free vector pack on my blog and I put a link to them up at freevectors.net. Ive got the most traffic from them so far. My blog is new though. Google has been steadly increasing as well.