What's the best traffic generator? Forum posts or organic traffic from search engines

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by atladsenser, Feb 6, 2007.

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    Wondering whether generating traffic from forums and bulletin boards relevant to my site will generate better, more interested and more targeted traffic than the traffic I've generated from people reaching my site from search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc. What's your take? Have you found that users from relevant forums generate more clicks & revenue?

    Love to hear your $0.02.

    Thanks!
     
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  2. Cryogenius

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    Traffic from search engines is usually best, as people are looking for something and your ads might just have what they are looking for.

    Meanwhile, regular visitors to forums are not looking for something, and tend to get familiar with the layout of the website and develop "ad blindness".

    Cryo.
     
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  3. lostartist

    lostartist Well-Known Member

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    Organic Search Engine Traffic Of course.

    But you must also consider georaphical origin of the traffic.
     
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    I agree.

    Forum links are more for backlink vlaue in my opinion (especially in non-webmater related forums. Because there are so much signatures in webmaster related forums to assume that you will gain PR value.)
     
    casperl, Feb 6, 2007 IP
  5. slickazsilk

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    good thread always wanted to ask this. :D
     
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  6. DigitalPointer

    DigitalPointer Banned

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    Of the two,

    I must say that organic traffic from search engines is the "best" because it is free and targeted due to the fact that the people who are visiting your site have chosen to search for it.

    Now, on the other hand, the members of forums who visit your site must have been interested as well or they wouldn't have clicked on your link.

    So, they are both quality traffic generators, yet one would surmise that with the search engine, you are standing in front of more people potentially to find your site than that of who have already joined the forum you are now participating in as a member.
     
    DigitalPointer, Jul 26, 2008 IP
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    u can use trafficg.com to increase your traffic
     
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  8. belland

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    Of course traffic from search engine.
     
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    search engine will always be the best resource for traffic, if you could get some visitors through search engines it will be increased by time and also if you are adding good quality of content every time and make your website updates

    and google adsense pays much more for your visitor who comes through search engines more than who come through referral websites
     
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  10. AffiliateQueen

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    Organic traffic can bring in a constant stream of visitors from all sorts of keyword phrases that you never thought about yourself. So, this gets my vote as the better option.

    Forums are good for backlinks and highly targeted marketing for specific things.
     
    AffiliateQueen, Aug 18, 2010 IP
  11. sanambk

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    Most effective traffic from S.E. And other from Backlinks.
     
    sanambk, Aug 18, 2010 IP
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    Traffic from S.E.=$:)
     
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    Certainly search engines organic results, you can't beat that. But if you can get visitors from very relevant forums, damn go for it! Big numbers come from search engines, but you want as many targeted visitors as you can!
     
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  14. DaSerpent

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    Well I would say Search Engine traffic is better. BUT it depends on what kind of a website you have.

    People mostly go to forums in search for information. So, if your website is giving out some quality information then you will have better results with forums. If you are selling stuff and people search for that at google then you will have far better results with search traffic.
     
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    Forum traffic is very low, only a few clicks you can get monthly. And forum traffic are not good for CTR, they go to your site to learn about something, not to click.
    SE traffic is best converting, although its extremely difficult to get thousands of traffic from SE.
     
    tariq1654, Aug 24, 2010 IP
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    haha, why do you ask so dummy question ?!
    Do you know what is SEO about ?
    why are people trying to get a highest position in seaching result ? it is the answer for your doubt !
     
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    Is there often a lot of spam here?

    Good question OP!
     
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  18. Justin_Dupre

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    PPV, SEO, blogging, Article writing.
     
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    According to my own experience search engine traffic is the best traffic source. :)
     
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    #20
    SE is always better 100%
     
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