What is Your Main Source of Traffic – Join my Poll
Posted by Mert Erkal on May 1, 2008 in Blog | 16 commentsLast week I conducted a survey titled WordPress vs Blogger 2008. Surprisingly, amongst 30 voters, 17 of them voted for Blogger. I was expecting WordPress to get the majority of the votes, but I failed. I would like to thank all the participants for their contribution, and valuable comments. Now I know that Blogger is going to add some more functionalities to cope with WordPress soon. This is something we all should take note of.
Now I have designed another sidebar poll: What is your main source of traffic to your blog?
Choices are;
- Other Search Engines
- Other Blogs
- Other Websites
- RSS Subscribers/Fellow Readers
- Other
I truly value your feedback. Thanks in advance for your participation!
Other search engines – specifically social search site StumbleUpon – are typically primary traffic sources to THINKing. Twitter, Sphinn and BeeTooBee are in the mix, too.
Definitely “other” – Stumbleupon is way out in front as the leading source of traffic with del.icio.us and FriendFeed neck and neck for second place.
The question is, do I optimise my content for stumblers and bookmarkers or vary it to get more organic search results? Hmmm.
Traditionally Google has been a hugely disproportionate amount of our traffic, but as I improve my profiles on Stumbleupon, Digg, and Twitter I am seeing social media make big gains–adding to continued strong Google results.
My main source right now is Google search engine
for me since i am new to blogging industry my main source of traffic is other blogs and feeds, search engine not that much maybe because im still new what do you think do you agree with me mert?
I find that most of my traffic comes from Stumble but it is not buying traffic, Google searches are starting to catch up rapidly with more targeted traffic, so in my opinion the jury is still out.
My niche is health and specifically baby boomers so I would like to see what’s up in 6 months time.
Hello Dear Friend!
GOOGLE is the Best and First!
Here is my stats for my blog at May1.2008
blog:http://receptizdravahrana.blogspot.com
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Search Engine Bar Chart
Num Perc. Search Engine
drill down 210 96.33% Google
drill down 8 3.67% Yahoo!
218 100.00%
Google, followed very closely by other blogs.
I would say, social media sites. To me Google is ‘the result’ but I don’t get traffic from Google directly. I notice on my stat I have pretty busy traffic from Blog Catalog and Blog Skinny which eventually get attention from Google.
I get about 35K monthly pageviews. My main sources are:
Google – 64%
Other SEs – 9.7%
Direct – 8.5%
Blogs – ~5%
StumbleUpon – 4.3%
Google Images – 1.6%
i get traffic from other blogs
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For me it is Google, other sources like social bookmarking sites are also increasing their share of visitors but they will take time to defeat G.
so far, it’s been from social media sites. Google is next on the list.
thanks
Google first, my own Crazy Marketing Network as second.
Alex
My top 3 are:
Google
StumbleUpon
Links from other blogs