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In Defense Of Google Traffic

by Joe Mobley
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An excellent post from the guys at AdsenseFlippers. With special mention of the Warrior Forum.

I think this post also offers a good attitude adjustment on traffic sources.

In Defense Of Google Traffic

Joe Mobley
#defense #google #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author MattCatania
    It's no surprise that they're trying to defend Google search traffic as that's what they preach and make money from.

    I find it quite funny that they are comparing SEO traffic to Youtube, Twitter and bookmarking traffic methods. Even better, when guest posts and article marketing are mentioned, doubt is thrown in as to how long these articles will remain on other peoples sites, and that it's not a safe traffic source because the website owners can get rid of your articles at anytime...

    Do they not realize that for each keyword (in SEO) there are only 5 people who will get the majority of the traffic (out of the potentially hundreds of thousands to millions competing) and that they don't control what position they are in or whether they get there or stay at all. :rolleyes:

    Hmm, it makes me wonder whether they've figured out that some traffic methods (when used correctly) can increase search engine rankings and thus SE traffic passively

    I'm not saying SEO is bad and that it shouldn't be used as a traffic source, I just firmly believe that there are other methods that are more effective and stable. If people make a profit as a result of utilizing SEO traffic, then I'm happy for them.
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  • Profile picture of the author affiliated survivor
    I agree that Google Traffic is probably the best traffic you can get. But it seems that things are changing. Just diversifying your anchor texts to be safe of Penguin updates, for instance, will probably not be enough. It´s not about anchor texts, Google wants to get rid of some type of sites. And when the first Penguin update is not enough, there will be another one. They will continue until they reached their goals.

    Diversifying your traffic sources seems, at least for me, to be the best solution to prevent losing everything over night. Even if social media traffic etc. is not as good as Google traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author TryBPO
      Originally Posted by Joe Mobley View Post

      An excellent post from the guys at AdsenseFlippers. With special mention of the Warrior Forum.

      I think this post also offers a good attitude adjustment on traffic sources.
      Thanks, Joe! Really glad you liked the article and thanks for the mention!

      Originally Posted by MattCatania View Post

      It's no surprise that they're trying to defend Google search traffic as that's what they preach and make money from.
      Hey Matt!

      We don't make anything if/when people are using natural/organic traffic from Google to make money...in fact, I think it's the opposite. PLENTY of other people are trying to cash in on the fear and hysteria surrounding Google traffic by selling ebooks on how to find traffic from other sources, selling that traffic directly, etc.

      We don't have a horse in that race, actually. We'd happily start talking about natural/organic search on Bing if there was a huge swap there...I just don't see that happening any time soon.

      Originally Posted by MattCatania View Post

      I find it quite funny that they are comparing SEO traffic to Youtube, Twitter and bookmarking traffic methods. Even better, when guest posts and article marketing are mentioned, doubt is thrown in as to how long these articles will remain on other peoples sites, and that it's not a safe traffic source because the website owners can get rid of your articles at anytime...
      We used those examples because those are the types of examples that people are selling to others. Ultimately, guest posts and article marketing are legitimate sources for traffic (and backlinks). I was trying to point out that many of those who are selling their sites (and looking at their sales value) use paid links and/or guest posts on other properties they own to artificially boost traffic and rankings...but that's certainly not always the case. I wasn't as clear as I meant to be about this point...thank you for mentioning.

      Originally Posted by MattCatania View Post

      Do they not realize that for each keyword (in SEO) there are only 5 people who will get the majority of the traffic (out of the potentially hundreds of thousands to millions competing) and that they don't control what position they are in or whether they get there or stay at all. :rolleyes:

      Hmm, it makes me wonder whether they've figured out that some traffic methods (when used correctly) can increase search engine rankings and thus SE traffic passively
      Yes, Matt, but for every keyword there are a ton of variations on that keyword you can be ranked for. That, and there are millions of long tail keywords that are not effectively being targeted. If they were, we would be out of business or have to be significantly better than we are!

      Originally Posted by MattCatania View Post

      I'm not saying SEO is bad and that it shouldn't be used as a traffic source, I just firmly believe that there are other methods that are more effective and stable. If people make a profit as a result of utilizing SEO traffic, then I'm happy for them.
      And we're not arguing that there aren't any other sources of traffic. We were simply trying to point out the elephant in the room that everyone seems to have ignored and the fact that Google search traffic still dominates. Spending 80% of your efforts on a traffic source that may bring in 10% of your traffic (or has the potential to) seems to be a poor allocation of resources and that was our point.
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  • Profile picture of the author dalegolden
    Google always try hard to get rid of low quality sites and always wants to show high quality results in every search. There is no better traffic than google traffic. You may get some paid traffic from different sources but once you achieve a good ranking google, never worry about getting traffic. Google traffic is the best traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author affiliated survivor
    Yes, that is what they claim. But how do you know it´s true? They dumped a lot of Adwords advertisers and to compensate for the loss of that income they try to monetize their search result pages in a different way. And some websites (affiliate sites-and of course also low quality sites) may not fit into their plans. Even if they are high quality sites.
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