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

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  1. #1
    Where are your TOP 5 Traffic sources for your forum besides search engines?

    Thank you,

    -C
     
    Woodcs82, Dec 15, 2009 IP
  2. NickR25

    NickR25 Peon

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    [47% Search Engines]
    28% Direct Traffic
    25% Referring Sites
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    75% search engines
    16% direct traffic
    9% referring sites

    Top three referring sites are facebook.com, seroundtable.com and twitter.com.
     
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  4. Woodcs82

    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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    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 :cool:

    -C

     
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    Agent000 Prominent Member

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    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)
     
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  6. Woodcs82

    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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    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

     
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  8. Woodcs82

    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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    #9
    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)
     
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  10. Woodcs82

    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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

    you or Anyone know?

    -C

     
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    Agent000 Prominent Member

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  12. Woodcs82

    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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    Agent000 Prominent Member

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    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)
     
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    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
     
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  15. Woodcs82

    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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    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

     
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    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    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
     
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    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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    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


     
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    I've spent roughly $0 on AdWords, and a lot of time optimizing for search engines.
     
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    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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    Interesting....Thanks Nick

    What ways did you optimize? VB ver. 4.o , VBSEO? , Custom coding?
    _____________

    Still waiting to here from others on the original posted question also.

    -C

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