1727 visits - only 1.3% from SE's

[John Scott]

www.hostdetective.net got 1,727 visits yesterday. Only 1.3 percent were from search engines.

The site's traffic mostly comes from the web hosting companies listed. They link back to the page where they are rated.

Just thought I'd post as an example of traffic independent of SE's.

[Emancipator]

Indeed SE's are not where all your dependency for traffic should be Good example.

[Pimpen 2010]

Thats where it is for my site. I guess my site is different. About 70% comes from SE's.

[Leader of Men]

I wonder how much SE traffic a site like Google gets...

[Leader of Men]

Sorry, that seemed a bit off topic, back on topic.

Very nice work on that John! I think it's great letting people decide for themselves how good a hosting company is.

[I, Brian]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

The site's traffic mostly comes from the web hosting companies listed. They link back to the page where they are rated.

Now that is a clever policy.

[Pimpen 2010]

Originally Posted by Pimpen 2010

Thats where it is for my site. I guess my site is different. About 70% comes from SE's.

nvm, it's like 20%, just looked

[fishfreek]

I think it depends on what your sites content is.

For example many of my sites I want a large % of the daily/weekly/monthly traffic comming from search.

Thats how I get new members.

[POR-15 Depot]

I'm kind of trying to follow this idea. I agree high ranks are helpful as Im working on the site for this also. The latest update killed that, but I'm hoping it comes back soon. But in the mean time I've been working on links. My new site ( online just over a month ) has allready pulled out a PR5 with 46 links showing as back links. Now as my domain is not likely to be found in any text unless it is my link/domain listing i can do a search on google for just " itkillsrust" and as of tonight it's showing about 2,890 listings. with 51 links with the rest being omitted results. So they are out there. I have well over 250 out there but are not showing up yet and I know "G" hasn't found them all so Im waiting. But since going out "Link Hunting" the 30 day old site has gone from 100-120 hits a day from mainly PPC ads on google and Overture to the highest hits that closed out tonight at 436 hits. The last 2 weeks have gained hits pretty steady. Even the Alexa rank has been dropping, I don't trust it, but it's following suit also. It's down to 94.123 as a rating. I have a goal of 2000 back links so we'll see how it goes

[samer]

i get 30% from SE. but i can get better if i'm listed in the 1st page of the keyword 'precast concrete' for my dads construction company site. i got once 14th then 13th but only for a month. it has been now a month since my rank for this keyword is gone, and i don't know why.

[Emancipator]

For my sites my traffic is 90% from SE's and it is 80% from google and yahoo.

[sem4u]

Good links can bring in some high quality traffic. You just need to pick good sites to link to you