One of our gaming sites, Virtual Web Games.com gets on average of 1000 daily unique visitors, but not a whole lot of traffic from search engines: Links from an Internet Search Engine - Full list - Yahoo 3819 - Google 2694 - MSN 1239 - Ask Jeeves 127 - Unknown search engines 70 - Dogpile 52 - AOL 28 - Mamma 16 - AltaVista 13 - Overture 10 - Google (Images) 8 - Search.com 8 - Lycos 6 - DMOZ 5 - Tiscali 5 - AllTheWeb 5 - Netscape 5 - Earth Link 3 - WebCrawler 3 - MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 2 - Alexa 2 - Baidu 1 - Kvasir 1 - Seznam 1 - A9.com 1 - Others 2 What should we do? Build up more links?
No and yes. Traffic is secondary to quality. If you're getting 1000 visitors but only 10% are interested in your site you could try to get 2000 visitors to get 200 people interested which would be a waste of bandwidth and effort. What it would be better to do is to get 1000 visitor of which 80%+ are interested in what you are offering. What I'm trying to say is you need to analyse the quality of your traffic. Then either make the site suit them or get better quality traffic to suit your site. So the question is what percentage of the 1000 would you say have used bits of your site and found it 100% useful. I would then check to see what keywords/phrases they were searching for and then target SE placement and the website to suit that audience. I hope you understand me? If not, just ask Stuey