Most successful traffic source?

[Cosmic]

Which source has given yor website the most traffic, generally speaking?

Promotion forums?
Post exchanges?
Affiliates?
Paid advertisements?
Any others I didn't think of?

 

[Scarface]

For me its mostly promotion forums. It works well, right now its getting few members from outside the promotion forums, which is what I wanted.

 

[pandaa]

Promotion forums are a great way to start getting traffic. But unless you're able to rise up and find other sources to complement it, you'll soon find that you're running out of steam. Paid ads have always worked well for all kinds of websites, at least for me.

Sometimes it helps to look at the problem in a backwards way. Instead of "how can I bring members to my site?", ask yourself "if I was interested in finding a site like this, how would I find it?"

 

[Reverse Flash]

Signature advertisements on other forums - this might not seem like an effective way to get traffic, but it's worked really well for me
In fact, that's how I got most of my active members and staff members
But for this method to work, you have to be a good, active, and popular member of the site/forum that you're advertising on
And it also helps if the site/forum in question gets a lot of traffic/activity

 

[Rbjustme]

Good point Cookie 123, I knew and admin who would leave a signature on every forum that they could, but never posted or showed any interest in the forum where he left his signature! :shake:

 

[Reddyash]

For me it is always Promotion forums and Post exchanges. Promotion forums is providing good users with quality content.
Post exchanges provided me with limited users as my exchange level is less.

 

[cpvr]

On my biggest forum, google actually drives the most traffic to us every month. Then after that, its our affiliates and people linking to us/talking about us on social media. I don't pay for advertising at all.

 

[Captured Enigma]

Paid ads work for me, as well as promotion forums. I sometimes put some money into google ads a and I get a good amount of views, not registered users though.

 

[bobey]

over 60 % of my blog traffic comes from Organic source, I do SEO quite well for my sites. Referral and social is minority channel of my sites

 

[Sharon]

For my blog it looks like I get most of my traffic here at FP but even more from Facebook. It's quite amazing to see the stats actually. I only posted like 3 of my articles on Facebook and it has ranked consistently in my top 3 traffic sources.

 

[MasterA]

I got a lot of my traffic from Google.

 

[Tucker933]

98% of our traffic comes from Google and Reddit.

For some reason we get shared a lot by non-members.

 

[Scarface]

98% of our traffic comes from Google and Reddit.

For some reason we get shared a lot by non-members.

Wow thats amazing 98% from google and reddit. We all want similar results but you must be doing something to get that amount of traffic from those great sources, weldone.

 

[Mikaya]

Most traffic comes from Google, keywords and ranking are pretty good. SEO is a powerful tool indeed. :3

 

[Cierra]

Promotion forums and SEO/search traffic mostly.

 

[Forces of Steel]

Social media is where it's at.

 

[Allenafaith]

I agree. I usually get traffic from advertising on social media.

 

[Chris K]

ForumPromotion, Google+ SEO/Search traffic similar to Cierra.

 

[Deleted member 8254]

Promotion forums and signature links provide me with some traffic.

 

[ForumsGroup]

My most successful traffic sources are search engines and social media.