Do most high traffic websites get most of their traffic from search engines ?

Haha, you make it sound so easy. Sounds all good on paper man. Have you ever reached 100 visitors a day? It is hard to say man, search engine traffic is just part of a pie. Do you type in facebook into google, or do you just go directly there.

I would start with 10 visitors a day, then 20, then 100, and so on.

2 years old website, OK, are you consistently creating content from last 2 years?

If your site has around 2000 quality articles, you can expect to get around 500 visitors/day....

It's "doable" if you know what you're doing. There's a case study over at blackhatworld right now the guy is trying to reach 1 million searches a month.

So far he's doing a pretty decent job -

Antichrist's 1 Million Searches A Month Journey - Page 2

Edit: You will need a BHW account to see the photo but his traffic just jumped from 343 clicks / day to 2,934 clicks / day and I think he will eventually reach his goal.

Unless you're doing paid ads, the only way to get to such a high visitor count is to mix up your traffic from a lot of different sources. That's why large blogs utilize all social media channels, email lists, and guest blogging. Every channel counts.

Whether the majority comes from search engines, that will depend on your content and if there are any links going to the pages.

You won't get to that number by throwing up a load of content and hoping for long tail traffic.

I get 20 to 25k daily page views on one site. 4k of those page views is from organic search. The rest from:

Facebook (organic reach and paid ads)
Pinterest
YouTube (I have 90 videos with annotated links to my site)
Tumblr
Stumbleupon (this source is up and down)
My email newsletters
Outbrain (paid source)

I started this site in February 2014. I never would have gotten to these traffic levels without buying traffic which ramped up my social media very quickly. Organic search traffic started coming at the three month range and is growing very fast. The only backlinks I've create are social media links and submitting my site to two high quality website directories.

I think most high traffic sites these days have diverse traffic sources and don't rely too much on organic search traffic.

That's not to say I don't create posts with organic search in mind. Fifty % of my posts target longish tail keywords for organic search. The other fifty percent are created for social media attention. My organic search intended posts usually promote a product or products with affiliate links. My social media intended posts are monetized with display ads and funnel traffic to relevant posts promoting products.

The most successful sites have visitors which just type-in the name of the site in the address bar. Less successful sites have trafic from search engines. There are some sites which receive traffic from social media, though.

You should just use Google Analytics it records everything you need to know.

I know a site that started out with paid ads just to brand their name. Over time, organic search surpassed paid, and referring traffic over time. As well as social media.

Most Likely a Combination of Paid Traffic/ SMM / SEO. That could easily get that amount of visitors in one day. But it is Possible on SEO Alone. Just Need A lot of Quality Content!

Yeah definitely ! Most of the high ranking websites get high traffic from search engine because many of the their keywords at the top ranking ...

A lot of traffic is from search engines for big sites but a lot of it is direct traffic. For example, a popular domain like amazon.com, people just know about the site so they will go there directly.

Also, people pay for traffic too.

While it is possible to get 13,000 visitors a day from a site that is 2 years old, that would be quite difficult. It all depends on your niche and skills in SEO.

That kind of traffic requires getting ranked for at least dozens of keywords, LSI keywords, long tail etc. If you can afford inexpensive paid ads on Facebook or high quality solo ads that would be the fastest way to get those daily numbers. The time it takes to get those dozens of keywords ranked is costing you in time, which is worth money.

It comes down to this - http://retelur.files.wordpress.com/2...2-phpapp02.pdf. They generate 25-30 organic visitors per $1 of spend (small business is single digits) - they have high PPC budgets - they have breadth and depth to their site and product lineup. Basically they balance the traffic across all sales funnels.

High traffic websites have a solid social media strategy as well as being weary of Google Organic results. Combing both. Have a facebook/twitter account that you post regularly on and direct people to SEO friendly articles that will rank well in time.