SEO is getting to be a byword when the discussion is about traffic. From what I understand, traffic from SEO are the walk ins as a result of the search list. How many walk ins do you get in a week from the searchers? And how many do you get when you promote your website in social media? I am posting this discussion because I am wondering why SEO seems to be a big deal. Pardon me if I sound ignorant, just being honest with my thoughts.
Traffic from social media vs SEO
- Thread starter Corzhens
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I generally get a lot more from social media by a factor of five. But I also get a lot of visits from some really strange domains, and I'm just like... What.
Yandex, Google and Duckduckgo are tied right now. Every now and then, one pushes ahead, they're neck and neck.
Yandex, Google and Duckduckgo are tied right now. Every now and then, one pushes ahead, they're neck and neck.
Tyler Banks
New Arrival
For your kind information, @Corzhens. The traffic comes from social media is called "Forced Traffic" or "Incentive Traffic" and if you have adsenseon your website then you should feel the diffrence. Google Adsense doesnt consider this as a healthy traffic source. As you said that from search engines you got real walk-ins, who really need your stuff, Sounds better.
lucycarter
Reputable
I completely agree with @Tyler Banks above, traffic from social media is not considered as healthy traffic by google. I also consider traffic from searches as more useful. And this can be done by SEO.
Google considers Social Media a ranking signal, so why would they throttle adsense money just because it came from Social Media? Google uses Twitter/Facebook/whatever to link to the various pages on their own sites.
In my opinion, I wouldn't worry about it being "forced traffic," I think that as long as you provide value to your followers/fans/subscribers/whatever, that traffic goes up. I'm doing it right now with 3 of my websites. Since then...
The third one just recently had a domain change, I pushed social media onto the site. One month later - 1,000+ views the same day, this means google went like "Oh, you changed domains? You pushed ranking signals? Here ya go, traffic's yours, my friend."
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