Where are your TOP 5 Traffic sources for your forum besides search engines?

Where are your TOP 5 Traffic sources for your forum besides search engines?

Thank you,

-C

 

[47% Search Engines]
28% Direct Traffic
25% Referring Sites

 

Thanks Nick and Shawn...

I suppose i should be more patient when it comes to the Serps.. the site is only 2 weeks old lol.. And i know most traffic will indeed come from Google/other search engines. Then Direct ?...

But just like you shawn... i have lots of traffic from facebook and twitter

I believe im doin everything right ( at least i think? ).... Just need to wait to move up in google

-C

 

I send my forum RSS feed to twitter. I was surprised to note the other day that twitter turned by 3rd on my list of referring sites! (referring site make up 20% of traffic)

 

How are you hooking up forum posts to and Rss feed that goes to twitter?

Im a little confused

Do you have an RSS Feed plugin for forum posts hooked up to twitter?

-C

 

http://www.forumdr.com/send-your-forum-rss-feed-to-twitter/22/

 

OK i gotcha.... now do i have to manually insert forum posts into the Twitter feed app?

Edit - Im not sure how to get forum post in to an RSS?

-C

 

Open up twitter account in forum name
Open up twitterfeed account
Add forum rss feed to twitterfeed
Search twitter for your keyword
Follow people from your forum account
Hopefully some follow you back
Do nothing more - its on auto pilot (unless you want to work at getting more followers)

 

Ok ive got all of that... except i dont know how to do Forum RSS feed in Vbulletin

you or Anyone know?

-C

 

It will be here:
http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/external.php

 

Np i know where it is ... i just want 1 feed for the whole site for all posts right?

Im a little new with this.

-C

 

Yes, but you might want to get a mod from vb.org to exclude some forums from the external feed. I exclude the Introduction and off-topic forums --- so what goes to twitter (and anyone who subscribes to the RSS feed) is the important and relevant stuff.

I used to subscribe to the RSS feed from one popular vb site until they added a subforum for ebay auctions -- imagine all the crap that came through in their RSS feed - needless to say i cancelled and i rarely remember to visit that site anymore!

(Note to MODS -- how about splitting of this twitter/RSS feed into a new topic as its going away from the original question)

 

This is for my main forum

Search Engines 55.18%
Direct Traffic 30.86%
Referring Sites 13.95%


Top referring sites besides search engines
survivalboards.com
youtube.com
survivalist.info
survivalforum.us

 

Thanks Kev... i appreciate your contribution also.

Would def. like to see some more (so far Google/Search Engines is everyone's best friend)

-C

 

32.37% Direct Traffic
11.31% Referring Sites
56.30% Search Engines

So that's not too bad. I like seeing over 50% from search engines as I feel that's how you gain continued growth. When you are below that number it means more of your daily visitors are repeats. Having constant fresh viewers will allow you substantial growth.

Some top referring sites are:
Youtube
StumbleUpon
Meebo
Facebook
Omgili

 

Thanks Rectangle man....My question to All of you so far is....How do you get to the point where Search engines are giving you a ton of Traffic. Did you have to spend a TON on Adwords?

Or did you have to just be patient and wait?

Still interested in where others traffic is from..

-C

 

I've spent roughly $0 on AdWords, and a lot of time optimizing for search engines.

 

Interesting....Thanks Nick

What ways did you optimize? VB ver. 4.o , VBSEO? , Custom coding?
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Still waiting to here from others on the original posted question also.

-C

 

Same here. SEO is not about spending money. It's about making the right decisions for your site.