Where Does Your Traffic Come From?
Earlier this year, I asked you about your top referral traffic categories (search engines, direct/bookmark traffic, referring sites, etc.)
So I thought it would be cool to see what specific sites send you the most traffic.
My top 5 traffic sources in the past month were…
2) YouTube.com (From my two channels combined)
3) WebsiteBabble.com (My forum)
4) Twitter
5) Google
Just a few notes…
1) A lot of people assume I get more traffic to my blog, but my static website outperforms this blog by far when it comes to traffic and earnings.
2) Even though Google is ranked 5th for traffic referrals for this blog, it’s ranked 1st for my static website.
3) Regarding Twitter traffic, I do not have my blog address in my Twitter profile. (I use a Twitter landing page because it’s more personal.) So my Twitter referrals for this blog are coming from announcing my blog posts through Twitterfeed and RT’s (retweets) from my generous followers.
I used the Google Analyticator plugin to retrieve my “top 5 referrer” data. I love it because it shows a quick overview of your traffic (top referrers, searches, etc.) right on your WP dashboard. It’s nice because I don’t have to login to Google Analytics just to get a quick overview.
What were your top referring sites in the past month?
You May Also Like...
Hi, My name is Lisa and I'm a full-time affiliate marketer who has been blessed enough to earn a living online since 2006. 
Hi, my name is Lisa Irby and I'm the owner of 
1) google
2) (direct)
3) reddit.com
4) followlist.com
5) sfhostforum.com
My posts are automatically SEO by all in one SEO. I tend to target keywords that are getting a lot of searches according to Google and it’s paid off.
One of my posts created a huge buzz inside reddit when it was submitted by a visitor giving me a great traffic boost. (Actually one of the highest days ever recorded on the blog.).
The amount of Direct traffic and returning visitors is great which lets me know that I am promoting in the right area and that people are finding my content worth reading as they are coming back and typing my URL directly.
The other two is a directory I submitted to and a Free Forum Hosting Service that I set up.
I think I may have to adapt my social networking strategy in as Twitter came in 8th and FaceBook 15th.
Nice Post Lisa!
1) stumbleupon.com
2) (direct)
3) feedburner
4) google
5) blogengage.com
I made a similar post (a guest post) like this about what do you know about your traffic. Where are they coming from and where are they going
Kharim recently posted..How To Make Money With Twitter & Facebook
I only get a few hundreds visitors per day but Google brings more of them then everyone else together.
I bet number one on that list would be “bookmarked list”
I have your site, blog and forum as favorites so I guess me and those like me are not counted in that stat
Brankica | Cool Small Pets recently posted..Site Map
I do a ton of blog commenting, so I get a lot of mixed sources. Sometimes I get some traffic from RobsWebTips, other times from popular blogs I comment on. That’s the fun of blog commenting.
Like Joe Most of my traffic is from Blog Commenting and then from Facebook, then Google, then Twitter and then other refferal sites
Since January 1st til today the top five sites are:
1. ineeddiscipline.com
2. Google
3. forums.digitalpoint.com
4. affiliateblogonline.com
5. twitter.com
Dean Saliba recently posted..Recycling Old Content
Interesting that digitalpoint is #3. That goes along with my recent video about forum posting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhLOs_BRTMw Good for you!
1) Google
2) (direct)
3) Twitter
4) Facebook
5) atc-blog.com
I get quite a lot of visitors from the comments I make on other blogs including this one. Thanks to Lisa.
Wayne Farley recently posted..Flying Cars Set to Takeoff in 2011
Google
Directs
Various Third Party Sites Combined
Various Social Bookmarking Sites Combined
Clickbank & Clickbank Affiliates
One can either consistently work to get referral visits (consistently comment on blogs and forums), or focus on methodologies that generate them on their own (i.e. proper SEO for SE’s to send you traffic, creating quality content so others naturally link back and send visitors to you).
I prefer the later.
sunil recently posted..The Essential Dubai Tourists Tips You Need to Know
Traffic to my site come from
Direct over 50%
Google
Referral
I would want to believe that the direct might actually be mine or something but I am still trying to figure that out!
But I was expecting that most of it should be coming from other blogs since I do a lot of blog commenting.
Years back I did a lot of linking and just didn’t see the return in traffic for the hours spent posting. I focus more on directories and the main engines now in which they will index you in time. I guess exchanges still working if you have the views on your site.
1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. Bing
I haven’t read into it but yahoo and bing are changing how they index?
4. Directories
5. Linking with other similar sites.
I want to ask a question. I am working on my website what happened is my neice came to me and got me fired up about her dreams and she sparked desires within me to stat my own business. She inspired me to try and start my own business. Well the thoughts are not coming to me like I thought and I really want to stat a site. I am following the steps I received from my webhosting site but I have so many questions, and I eally do not know who to ask. I know she does not want to help me with my site. What do you recommend. Signed Need lots of help/understanding.
Traffic sources
1. Indirect SE Traffic – Articles, Social Media ETC
2. Direct SE Traffic
3. Youtube
4. Press Releases
5. Viral
It’s funny most people got traffic from almost the same place!
Mine came from Google, forums.digitalpoint.com, Yahoo, MSN, and off course Twitter.
Thanks for this post, it gives me other way to get my traffics..:)
Dev
Dev – 2 Make Money recently posted..Comment on Is Your Internet Marketing Business Organized by Joe T
Interesting article and even more interesting comment thread, thanks for sharing and encouraging Lisa.
My list is constantly changing due to the blog commenting that I do and I am still at the early stage and averaging around 100 daily visitors (not sure if that is good or not good?)
My top three are always: Google, Twitter, BlogEngage, and the last shuffle around a little
Alex recently posted..Article Marketing – Part 1 What’s a Search Engine
Google
Direct
Feedburner
DigitalPoint Forums
StumlbeUpon
Though my most of the traffic comes from blog commenting.
Thanks for sharing this great Post.
~Dev
Dev – Technshare.com recently posted..How I increased My opt-ins By 250With Popup Domination
1. Google
2. direct
3. Yahoo
4. Facebook
5. StumbleUpon
Aaron recently posted..Friday Funnies- How to Lie to the Bathroom Scale
Hi Lisa, I started a new blog last week! I’m using WordPress 3.0 and it’s super easy to install plugins and themes. I’m glad you reminded me to get the Google Analyticator plugin, it’s pretty cool. So after one week my traffic sources are:
Bloggerluv.com
Twitter
Stumbleupon
Ms. Ileane Speaks
Facebook
I’m hoping the search engines will find me one day this week. I sent out a search party
Ileane recently posted..Basic Blog Tips for New Bloggers
A “search party.” LOL Clever!
I always find it interesting to see who the top referrers are but its important not to lose sight of what matters are the referrers that convert to sales.
Logo Design recently posted..Sting Ray
I found your site very very interesting. You are helping peoples. You know how to convince people.
Traffic were gather from search,
comments, from every where.
thanks.
Nepal recently posted..Book Close
Nice information Lisa. Thank You for sharing this information I will do the same for my blog.
Reedd recently posted..Five Kinds of Food for Skin-Whitening and Sun-Protection
My traffic coming from google and some from my linked blogs
Retail Fixtures & Store Displays recently posted..Response cached until Fri 6 @ 15:21 GMT (Refreshes in 23.93 Hours)
1. Google
2. Yotube
3. Yahoo
4. uklinkexchange
5. Blogger
Kind Regards,
Girish
http://www.trips2london.com
http://scrappor.blogspot.com
My traffics come from Google, Yahoo, and also Facebook. Facebook helps a lot in driving traffic to my website.
Hello Lisa,
You have provided really very very useful thing here. and I must say that targeted traffic should be considered by people instead of only traffic. Targeted traffic is the traffic comes from your niche’s sources.. it helps you monetize your site/blog.and thanks for sharing other resources from where I can get traffic
Excellent post ! You make some brilliant points very nice realization. keep it up
Google,
Twitter,
Direct Traffic,
Wikio,
Netvibes,
The site is aimed at the french SEO “crowd” and Wikio is a good source of traffic – it’s a french digg-like.
1. Youtube
2. Direct traffic
3. Search engines
75% of my traffic is from youtube and I have very little traffic as I’m new in this scene. but at least I have very targeted traffic so I wont complain.
Johnsen recently posted..Test your hard drive speed using HD Tune free benchmark
Great information! Thanks!!!
so far my only source of traffic is twitter, and its working reaaaallllyyyyy good =]. I started using twitter last week and got almost 900 views so far! I’m expecting to have like 3K views next month however.
Vibe Tutorials recently posted..Draw a Vector Mail Icon
1. curlynikki.com
2. Twitter
3. Curlynikki.com forums
4. facebook
5. google search
Tasha recently posted..Two Strand Twist Maintenance
So I have new list of sites for getting help of this topic and more over I have the full details to get help, so can you click the link here,
Thanks and regards:
Viagra Prix
I find most of my links come from google (natural organic promotion) and articles I submitted. Not sure why, but lots of my articles get taken from sites and then posted on many other sites.
Hello lisa i need traffic
how can i get please help me
i have http://antivirus-free.co.cc is it good one or i have to make a new from .com or else …………….
Please help me to choose what type of topic i can choose to get more traffic , blog adress , t…………..etc
Rubisha Upreti recently posted..Webroot AntiVirus with Spy Sweeper 2011
Hi Lisa,
I found your YouTube videos back when I launched my first ad-supported website, and I’ve been a fan ever since. Thanks for your continued devotion to quality content.
The traffic for my lead website is averaging 326,000 visitors per month after only 3 years, and growing like crazy. I hope the following list is of great help to someone else.
Here are my top 5:
1) WordPress.com Blogs – They let you link to your own content, so I have created several free resource directories and have linked to many great resources around the web.
2) AssociatedContent.com – I love the fact that I can add in-text links to my own content, and that they will pay my for writing the article!
3) YouTube.com – More than 300 videos so far and well worth the effort.
4) Flickr.com – So great and so easy. I just post an image, chose my keywords and include a link. An unexpected advantage has been that other image sites have been picking up my images and delivering even more traffic than Flickr.
5) Facebook – I haven’t tapped this for all it’s worth, though it has been a good source of traffic for my effort.
The traffic for my lead website is averaging 326,000 visitors per month after only 3 years, and growing like crazy. I hope the following list is of great help to someone else.
Hi,
There are a lot of ways to bring traffic to your websites i like using manual traffic exchanges they work great they bring my site a ton of additional traffic. So if you want a lot of traffic to your sites you can save your self a lot of time by just using manual traffic exchanges.
I think most of my traffic comes from Twitter at the moment
google/organic
bing/organic
followlist.com
yahoo/organic
ask/organic
plus I do my share of blog comments. My real job gets in the way of my dreams
Hi Ive just started up a blog and im trying to get new and more traffic to it. any other tips you can share and the best way to promote it for free?
Cheers
Ryan
ryan recently posted..Petition up date
1. Google
2. Bing
3. Yahoo
4. Feedburner
5. Direct
Those are mine, lol. Take care,
Anthony Souls recently posted..Drawing Strengths from Fellowship, quote
Hi Lisa,
First of all I am a big Fan of your youtube channel, I have been trying things out on my site which you talked about in your videos.
My site is a technical site, so I get all my traffic from Google. Second, from the bookmarking sites like dzone, digg, reddit..etc.
This self review of traffic makes me realize I’m not doing enough to drive traffic. I used to focus on driving traffic from twitter but after receiving a consistent 80% bounce rate I dropped twitter from traffic recruitment. It seems the tweeters are more inclined to have ADD and therefore bounce.
Register a domain and get situated right with Speedy-Joe’s. Please and thanks!
I really don’t know much about traffic building. I make decent income on low traffic. Most visitors from google, offline advertising on auto, business cards.