Site owners, Where is most of your traffic coming from? Please participate in this non-scientific poll so that the rest of us can see where to focus our marketing efforts If you select 'others' in the poll, please make sure you clarify in your post what 'others' mean. Thanks
for online utility 50% backlinks, 15% SE, rest direct(bookmark). For other sites 90% from Google and Yahoo...
I have quite a large network of site, some high traffic some medium. Its mainly the sites with higher pagerank that get most of the online traffic via search engines.
Google, Yahoo then MSN The rest make up a small % Even though I rank higher for major keywords on Yahoo and MSN still get bulk of traffic from Google.
Look like from the poll results that most people receive their traffic from search engines. This is a good enough reason to focus most of our efforts on SEO work.
Article directories, definitely. I set up a lot of simple sites (just a few pages) organized around an affiliate product, write and submit a few high-quality articles (I usually use SubmitYourArticle for submission), and wait for sales. I could probably do a lot more to promote them, but I like the thought of putting in a bit of effort and then reaping the rewards for months and years to come!