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Referring Sites or Search Engines? Which gets you more traffic?

by dvduval
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I noticed for the first time in a very long time that for the month I am receiving more traffic from Referring Sites than I am from Search Engines though it is a very close race (39.72% to 39.64%). I have definitely been trying to post on forums more lately (including this one), and I submitted my first article to the article sites a couple of days ago.

I'd be curious to know where othe warriors get their traffic...
search engines or referring sites?
#engines #referring #search #sites #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    Most of mine are referring sites because I buy PPC traffic. I have some sites that are 80% SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mickm
    Search engines, by a hell of a lot.

    I only get around 10,000 a day from backlinks on other sites, Google sends me much more traffic... even when the BBC, USA Today or the British newspapers link to me, Google still beats them.

    Also RSS feeds are pretty good for pulling in traffic, but still Google is the top source of traffic in my experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Originally Posted by forest_boy001 View Post

    how much do you earn per month through this? is this is your full-time work?
    I'm not sure who you were asking, but yes, this is my full time job.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkR
    The answer is ... It's up to you. It depends on whether you focus your effort on on-page SEO, or build a network of feeder sites/blogs, or spend your time doing social marketing, or build backlinks. It's your call.

    For me, it's search engines by a mile. I can't resist free traffic. I focus on organic SEO.

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    • Profile picture of the author dvduval
      Originally Posted by MarkR View Post

      The answer is ... It's up to you. It depends on whether you focus your effort on on-page SEO, or build a network of feeder sites/blogs, or spend your time doing social marketing, or build backlinks. It's your call.

      For me, it's search engines by a mile. I can't resist free traffic. I focus on organic SEO.

      Mark
      But I wonder about the big sites. As you get more and more popular, do you start to see a change in the referrals? For example, maybe more sites are talking about yours versus only receiving search traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author bannor32
    80% search engines, 15% EZA, 5% misc. backlinks that are strewn all over the place. Makes for nice targeted traffic arriving at my site.
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  • Profile picture of the author arjana
    Im adveraging 70 /30 at the moment with referrals bringing me more traffic although im working on the search side referrals keeps winning hands down.
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  • Profile picture of the author yommys01
    I get about 50% of total traffic from google but I am seeing some success with msn lately.

    A site I just launched about 3 days ago is getting lots of traffic from MSN but also a very high bounce rate.
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  • Profile picture of the author ultraeternity
    I get 90% of my traffic from referring sites(ezinearticles.com actually).

    I have not had any success trying to rank for even long tail keywords in google and nowadays look to traffic from search engines as a bonus.
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