Where does most of your sites traffic come from?

i currently use every form listed. my favorites are video marketing with youtube and social media ads. youtube is great for some free steady traffic. social media will send you tons of traffic but can burn a hole in your wallet if you don't keep your eyes on your conversions.

Are you buying facebook ads or myspace ads? If so what has been your luck with them?

according to analytics, the bulk is returning visitors who directly come to my domain.

What are you doing to have such a high visitor retention rate? Are you blogging or updating a lot? Do you have a forum?

I'm sure it varies for everone, but for me it's either forum signature links or search engine traffic. Best thing is to do a bit of everything - AND whatever you do.. do it right. Put the effort in. Then see what works for you, and lean more towrds that, but don't put all your eggs in one basket.

according to "statistics" i've seen floating around the web (can't remember where, though), the average website gets approximately 80% of its traffic from the search engines.

that, of course, doesn't speak to the internet marketing niche as much of this traffic can be JV or email driven.

What would be the difference between paid traffic and search engine marketing? Isn't paid traffic just PPC?

For 1 of my sites 70-75% of my traffic comes straight from Yahoo answers, it's an odd niche and I find that even with seo the traffic isn't nearly as targeted as I like. So I get in the trenches a few times a week and attempt to be as helpful as possible while ensuring that I get high converting traffic from my responses. The traffic for the rest of my sites is dominated by search engines.

Forums mostly.

Greg

Traffic varies according to the content.

If I have a site set up for Adsense it is optimized for search engines like Google. Naturally, most of that traffic comes from Google.

If I "tweet" a hot news item that is topical then a flow of people will come from Twitter and this is true of Facebook and other Web 2.0 sites

If I am not ranked very high for a specific subject, I can write some articles and get traffic from EzineArticles and other directories.

I could have viral ebooks, a Joint Venture with someone who has a huge list, PPC, offline press release...

Not all traffic is the same. If 1000 searchers are looking for game cheats you should probably be sending them to an Adsense type of click-through site and not a Clickbank product. They are probably not looking to buy anything.

Also, I would rather have 500 people looking to buy $5 vitamins than 1000 people looking to buy a $10 ebook.

If you get 100 people looking for "hotel reservations" you should be sending them to a hotel for a commission and not trying to send them to Clickbank for an ebook on Hotels.

So, when people ask about traffic...I always ask "what are you trying to sell"?

Article marketing and SEO as well, the goal is to not have to work so hard for traffic someday

Matt

How many articles does on have to have to get 1,000 unique visitors per day?

SEO and forum marketing

I use forum marketing right now. I have just started so we shall see how that works. I will add more things as time permits.

Paul

article marketing works wonders for me....just have to keep cranking out articles that are targeted towards a specific niche...

can't go wrong....just keep on making it happen!