search engines or forums?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by spyrit, May 19, 2006.

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    Hy guys, i have a question: Do you receive more traffic from search engines, or from different forums and lists that you are on. If the second, share those lists that bring you the most visitors, so we can do a big list :)
     
    spyrit, May 19, 2006 IP
  2. latehorn

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    The cafepress forum gives you lots of visitors..

    And no, It's all Google for me :)
     
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    For some of my established sites (PR 5 with more than 2500 unique visitors every day), its definitely traffic from the search engines, most importantly from Google.. almost 60 % of traffic comes directly from google, then some 15% from Yahoo, and another 15% from MSN and the remaining from other sources.

    However for some very new websites, my major traffic comes from MSN, as new websites are easily optimized for MSN, and from forum links and some traffic from the articles I write and submit and some more from a few links I've got for my websites.

    For me, the forums list is DP http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ and WebProWorld http://www.webproworld.com/
     
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  4. spyrit

    spyrit Well-Known Member

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    ok, so other that DP we have 2 new additions

    1.cafepress - are you talking about : http://forums.cafepress.com/eve/ubb.x because i see this is more on sales websites than directorys, but i think i'll give it a try.

    2.http://www.webproworld.com just became a member, i'll see how it goes, and tell you guys in a few days..

    Anybody else has some resources to share?
    I'd have to say that http://www.snurff.com/ brought me some visitors too, if anyone wants to try..
     
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  5. Emperor

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    I agree 100% with that. New sites tend go get indexed by MSN very fast some times it only takes few days. I think that for most people major traffic still comes from only one source Google.

    Look what happen to me
     
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    Yes, most traffic from search engines, but have some decent traffic coming from Forums also.

    ASPFree Forum brings some traffic to me...
     
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    SEs are very essencial for traffic but credibility is being built thru forums.
     
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    Their site is down again, it is happening quite a lot lately.

    FFMG
     
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    spyrit Well-Known Member

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    true, i saw that too...it's a shame :(
     
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    Snurff.com seems to be down more than up. I think it's about time I pull their links off my site. Too bad, I was actually receiving traffic from them.
     
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