Is direct traffic good for SEO?

7 years ago

It doesn't effect SEO or rankings. Its neither good nor bad.

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mahdi0907

7 years ago

Everyone knows that browsers don't always report where visitors came from when they arrive at a website. When they don't report where they were in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) referrer header, often the traffic is considered "Direct" -- which really means, "we have no clue where they came from, maybe they typed the URL in or hit a bookmark."

Sometimes these types of traffic could be organic !

So you should not bother about it. It doesn't have any impact on SEO ranking.

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Kaarthik Shrivastav

7 years ago

Direct traffic is almost always either returning visitors, so it doesn't affect your seo in a negative way but it also means there is not really new traffic to the site. Referral traffic is best way of getting new visitors and possible new leads.

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JennyPitula

7 years ago

When a user enters the website URL in the browser's address bar, this is how direct traffic is generated. Direct traffic is good, as it comes directly from the target audience and there are less chances of getting irrelevant users/visitors.

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7 years ago

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dharamveer saini

7 years ago

it is good for seo point of view because if website having more traffic then the page popularity is also more...

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surya kumar

7 years ago

It's good nothing worry about moreover you feel more joyful.
direct traffic is more means existing user or returning customer a previous customer can only comes into direct So if it's more in the sense you are trust worthy site too. Your trust increases So your rankings will also improved when it's a trust site.

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dave_hermansen

7 years ago

Man, so many people here need to give up their dreams of ever competing online, they give out such poor advice. The amount of direct traffic has no bearing on your SEO or where your pages will rank.

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webby0031 7 years ago

Yes right Dave and I will offer clarity.

Time on site tracked by google analytics means F all to your ranking

There are only two factors to SEO

On page SEO & Links

Anything else at this point in time does nothing or is snake oil
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KulaShaker1

7 years ago

I highly doubt it could affect SEO, but it makes you wander if a visitor comes to the site via Chrome, what data google is storing about the visit to that website and if it will have any bearing in future when making industry comparisons

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seomental

7 years ago

referral traffic will always increase new visitor but direct traffic will not increase new visitor and final though is its have no impact on ranking

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fratt55

7 years ago

hey there

direct free traffic is the best traffic for seo
direct free traffic when done the right way will drive your website /page to #1 rank..on google search engine or any other search engine
It will take a few weeks and some work but traffic from sites like tubblr reddit fb groups
are just a few of the best traffic sources out there

talk soon
sam f

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dave_hermansen

7 years ago

Originally Posted by fratt55

hey there

direct free traffic is the best traffic for seo
direct free traffic when done the right way will drive your website /page to #1 rank..on google search engine or any other search engine
It will take a few weeks and some work but traffic from sites like tubblr reddit fb groups
are just a few of the best traffic sources out there

talk soon
sam f

Wow! (That's all I can really say here.)

We've got the O.P. asking about direct traffic's influence on SEO and somebody emphatically stating it matters and "will drive you to #1", with zero credible sources to support this ludicrous claim. Then, he launches into endorsing poor converting social networks which have nothing to do with SEO or direct traffic.

What are people here smoking?

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Durai Jiiva

7 years ago

It wont effect your SEO until its limited. Too much of direct traffic will really cause issue to your #SEO. Consider some social traffic and search traffic.

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Shrusti

7 years ago

It wont affect your website ranking whether traffic is organic or direct.

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sarthakk

7 years ago

Its good for your website, the thing is you are getting relevant traffic and that's matters.

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davidricherd

7 years ago

Yes, Direct traffic is Good for our website ranking & conversion rate, because it help in quality exposure for your business.

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Kereana K

7 years ago

Organically getting more traffic is effective than direct traffic

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dipika13

7 years ago

No. This will have direct hitting towards your website

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cansureimmigration

7 years ago

Direct Traffic not Improve Your Keywords Ranking and Just Increase the Traffic Only. this one is good you can go with it.

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Martin smith

7 years ago

It doesn't affect the SEO in a negative way. Referral traffic is the good way of getting new visitors.

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Arvind Kumar

7 years ago

Traffic in any form is good for any site... organic traffic is the best...!!

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sumeetverma

7 years ago

Direct traffic is good, as it comes directly from the target audience.

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Valasys Business solution

7 years ago

Experiment recorded by analytics programs showed up to 60% Of "Direct" traffic is actually organic search.

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A port

7 years ago

I think direct traffic is better. because you got here targeted people what you like or you want to visit your site.

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yukon

Banned 7 years ago

87% of the post in this thread have the same IP.

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dave_hermansen 7 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

87% of the post in this thread have the same IP.

That explains the 87% stupid response rate. Still no answer to what they are smoking, though! ;-)
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Leadsupply

7 years ago

Unless Google uses data from Google Analytics in their search algo (which they say they don't), then direct really doesn't do anything for you. That being said, people who come to your website directly at some point, will often search for you some point in the future. They'll sometimes search for reviews on your company or other information the first time they go to the site. So there is typically some amount of organic traffic that rides on the coat tails of direct traffic.

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dave_hermansen

7 years ago

Originally Posted by Leadsupply

Unless Google uses data from Google Analytics in their search algo (which they say they don't), then direct really doesn't do anything for you. That being said, people who come to your website directly at some point, will often search for you some point in the future. They'll sometimes search for reviews on your company or other information the first time they go to the site. So there is typically some amount of organic traffic that rides on the coat tails of direct traffic.

No, those people's original search are already accounted for in your organic search numbers. It is the direct traffic riding on the coat tails of organic.Organic can never ride on the coat tails of direct.

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sindhu90

7 years ago

I too have the same doubt, from above comments I guess it wont affect our SEO. Thanks all

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YogeshChhabra

7 years ago

Ofcourse Direct traffic is good for SEO but if came from different different Ip address. If we get daily basic direct traffic from one IP address that is not beneficial but will not harmful for our site.

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Nikhil Bansal

Banned 7 years ago

Straight answer is there is no advantage on SEO because of direct traffic.

But here is a situation.

You went directly to flipkart dot .com

If a lot of people directly go to flipkart , then the site is popular or they are doing some sort of branding. You visited the site and found useful.

After sometime when you searched for a mobile phone and flipkart, listing came on results and you clicked on it ignoring others. So the this site received a user because of their earlier branding campaign, which is obviously good in terms of SEO.

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SusanAdams1 7 years ago

I think that if you have more direct traffic is very good because it comes from your target. For google it's ok, but maybe you should try to work on your organic, it's a good way to find another audience and the ranking of your page will increase.
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Amit Kumar Dwivedi

7 years ago

Definitely direct traffic is the best traffic as you dont have to pay for the same also that will not effect your SEO.
My blog receives direct traffic its not much but it is accetable approx 600 per day.
You may check the same here

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Socal Digital Marketing

7 years ago

Hello,

Direct Traffic does not affect your site in any way or affect your rankings. Referral traffic is the best way to get new users to your site.

Hope this helps!

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lizajack2013

7 years ago

Direct traffic means people remember your domain and return to it for whatever reason. This in itself reflects some level of authority that may be reflected online, and from there influence your ranking, such as through links.

The more direct traffic you attract, the more chances you have that this traffic will influence your ranking in some way by building your authority.

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chris joseph

7 years ago

From my experience, it doesn't. What I could imagine is that you received some new links from your unexpected visitors which helped your ranking. As Google also says that they don't use Google Analytics data for ranking purposes it would be very difficult to measure a traffic increase.

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AntRanks

7 years ago

It doesn't influence rankings directly, however, there is a small chance direct traffic influences your general level of online presence and authority and that, in turn, influences your rankings. That's unproven though.

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nickchernets

7 years ago

Google wants to rank the most authoritative pages to answer a particular search query.

Your direct traffic level tends to correlate with - and influence - the number of links and general online presence you have developed over time, and thus your authority.

Yes, referral traffic reflects click-throughs from such links. However, a proportion will also type in your domain name directly rather than clicking on the link. This is for various reasons such as:

Making a hand-written note of a web page to look at later.
Copying the link and pasting into a new browser/browser window/tab.

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DorseyJames

7 years ago

Google does not have access to the traffic statistics on every website. If Google Analytics is installed, then Google does have access to this information. As with everything, this should be viewed with a somewhat skeptical eye. The data likely does not have a direct impact, but I believe that the data is used to help drive algorithm updates.