my 2006 traffic statistics

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by oseymour, Jan 4, 2007.

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    according to google analytics one of my websites got approximately 120,000 unique visitors in 2006.

    The things that stand out to me, I got less than 20% of my visitors from Google and Yahoo, less than .05% from MSN.

    about 60% came from people clicking on links.

    This is for a site that was launched in october 2005.

    My secrets: none...when I am promoting my site I always try and get links that will bring me the most traffic and are relevant to my visitors. Links for SEO secondary, I do not get links on the sole basis of PR.

    Post interesting things about your stats from 2006
     
    oseymour, Jan 4, 2007 IP
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    I noticed that too. all the time I spent doing and concentrating on SEO. I achieved number 1 for my keyword but links in forums are where more than half of my traffic came from. only 18% from google and yahoo and the rest from digg and squidoo.
     
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    oseymour, could you write the website of its traffic?
    Without knowing website we cannot conclude much...
     
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  4. oseymour

    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    I don't want to post the domain name....I just want to know what other interesting things DP members saw in their traffic logs in 2006
     
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    Depends of domain. For one I had ~44.000 visitors. Approx. 20% from Google, 20% from MSN, 5% other and 50% from links.

    For second I had ~85.000 visitors, 95% from SE (mainly Google and Yahoo) rest 5% from links.

    But I don't know what does it mean to anyone?
     
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  6. roy77

    roy77 Active Member

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    wawawewa! you guys are good! i got 1000 uniques for one of my arcades that i started 2 months ago. its ok for me :)
    update: 50% msn 30% others 20% links
     
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  7. oseymour

    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    the site I was talking about was about free offers....after looking at all my sites I realized that it differs depending on the site topic...but I remember reading matt cutts blog and he got most of his traffic from links too.
     
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    Yeah, some niches probably got links easily and natural for others, people count on SE... for commerce related on AdWords ;)
     
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    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    the site got a lot of hits because people were dogging it and saying how terrible the design and how crappy the site was. It was all done intentionally by me and it worked....:D
     
    oseymour, Jan 5, 2007 IP