Whats your Best source of traffic?

**Chuck Cougill** · 11-09-2002, 08:18 AM

actually word of mouth (or email) I run a small hobbyist site and we are a pretty tight community

**Ignite** · 11-12-2002, 04:04 PM

Google and Yahoo by far. Some of the top lists I'm part of also send a decent amount of traffic. I've also had a lot of luck with newsgroups.

**Lars** · 12-31-2002, 04:27 AM

1. Word of Mouth (I am still surprised how well that works)
2. Free Virtual Greeting Cards (I made some for Christmas and now I made a few for Happy New Year, will try to add more and more categories over time since it works pretty good and is a nice free service)

**bobkan** · 01-11-2003, 12:08 PM

Some facts - Around 30 million people in the UK (x100+worldwide) use the internet and 80% of them use search engines to find information, products and services. It is, therefore, crucial for your website to be included in as many search engines as possible. The internet is still growing.
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Designing a website and submitting to free search engines is not enough. For maximum impact, ensure you give the right signals to robots, and submit your site to engines and directories aimed at your target traffic (URL SNIPPED)

Can I do it myself?
Yes and, when you achieve a good listing, the results are worth it. If you want to do it yourself, there are a number of options:

1. A priority search engine listing to reach 80% of internet users through search engines like AltaVista, MSN, LookSmart, Google, Excite (URL SNIPPED)

2. Submit your website to 1000's of Engines, directories and over 500,000 link pages (URL SNIPPED)

3. If you have a website but do not have the budget for priority and mass exposure submissions, you can use a FREE submission service (URL SNIPPED)

4. Over 50% of internet traffic is from non-English speaking countries. Develop a world wide internet presence by localising your website, (or just the key pages), products and services into other languages (URL SNIPPED)

Of course forums are good too!

<Admin Editted. Bob, I welcome you here to Webmaster-Talk. However this traffic extraction/self advertising in almost all your posts can not continue. Thank You.>

**websquash** · 03-31-2003, 02:46 AM

Hello,

We get most of the traffic from google and links from other websites. Setting up link exchange is a slow process but it really brings great results in the long run as search engine ranking is also affected by the link popularity.

Thankyou
Birju
http://www.websquash.com

**praveen** · 03-31-2003, 04:01 AM

links from other sites and google. and toan extent, msn,lycos and aol..

but so far google is the major source

**idomainbrokers** · 06-05-2003, 08:03 PM

large optin update email lists, you have good content people want updates,

**emory7** · 06-10-2003, 04:33 AM

For me, first is links from other sites, mostly from freeware listings and CIW Toplists. Second is Google. Third is MSN because I recently had some articles listed in Zeal. Fourth is probably people hotlinking to my images--Arrrgghhh!

**HostLead** · 06-26-2003, 04:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chopper
mine would have to be word of mouth and links from other sites.

i never get a good placement on search engines

but with cdcopyworld.com im getting 600+ visitors per day. dont know from where! i think it might be just people typing it in there browser to see if any thing is there. cause cd copying is a big thing these days

cheers

I think people confuse the site gamecopyworld (which offers no cd cracks) with your web site's URL.

HostLead

**HostLead** · 07-11-2003, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Criper2000
Also Clickthru.com, and Clicks4u bring me a lot of traffic.

how nice of you to add your affiliate code.

HostLead

**EvilHaider** · 11-15-2003, 05:40 PM

I haven't done any paid advertising yet for my web design services site. I submitted to search engines and got listed in some free directories that list web designers/ web design firms. I get a few hits from these places.

www.marketingtool.com is one

www.firmlist.com is another

www.1234-web-designers.com I think is another.

**lionfind** · 11-19-2003, 01:06 AM

join link exchange and try to trade links with sites with better google PR than yours

**john546** · 01-08-2004, 09:07 AM

I have traffic coming from many different areas of the web! But my best performing traffic comes from Google and PPC Search Engines. This is because the traffic is very targeted!

I could be like a lot of other people who first puts a site up on the Web, and join lots of traffic exchanges, auto surf for hits programs, etc. But whats the point as you will only recieve untargeted traffic and it will only waste alot of your bandwidth.

I find that I have exchanged links with alot of other sites, but I don't think I get many hits from them. Maybe it's because my sites title is SimplySearch4it! which gives me a listing in most of sites that I have exchanged links with, a page 3 or 4 listing.

Well! as longs as it improves my PR, thats one of the main things!!!

**thevirus** · 01-08-2004, 09:22 PM

Articles that I write and submitt for reprint with my author bio

**skyraider** · 01-18-2004, 10:25 AM

I get about 300-100 hits a day, 40-100 being unique. Err... something like that...

Quote:

Total Hits 10009
Total Files 6356
Total Pages 1267
Total Visits 519
Total KBytes 33257

Total Unique Sites 580
Total Unique URLs 412
Total Unique Referrers 147
Total Unique User Agents 164

Most seem to come from links, and 1606 have been a direct request, presumably from me

Strangely, however, only one person has posted besides people I asked to, despite all of these apparent hits.

**dymemedia** · 02-10-2004, 05:58 PM

Google for me and directorys such as dmoz

**eCommando** · 02-19-2004, 04:51 PM

On my e-commerce sites:

Google # 1
Yahoo # 2

then PPC stuff.

**xeddy** · 02-27-2004, 12:27 AM

Google and msn work best for me...

**web4world** · 03-12-2004, 01:52 AM

we are search engine optimization firm and we research log of each of our client's site and our experience says that google gives more than 80% traffic to any of our client site and than it comes to yahoo and msn and than to the local regional directories.

Warm Regards
Webmaster
Web4world.com
Web4india.com

**byronm** · 04-12-2004, 01:52 PM

mozdex.com

View Poll Results: Who or what brings you the most traffic to your site?
Google	163	65.73%
Yahoo	45	18.15%
AlltheWeb	3	1.21%
Lycos	0	0%
MSN search	39	15.73%
AOL search	5	2.02%
Links from other sites	72	29.03%
My affiliate program	4	1.61%
Start Pages	6	2.42%
OTHER - See my post!	28	11.29%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 248. You may not vote on this poll

11-09-2002, 08:18 AM	#21 (permalink)
Chuck Cougill Skilled Talker Posts: 53 Location: evansville, in Talkupation:	actually word of mouth (or email) I run a small hobbyist site and we are a pretty tight community __________________ Chuck Cougill http://shadetreemg.com Duct tape is like the force-- it has a light side, a dark side and holds the universe together

11-12-2002, 04:04 PM	#22 (permalink)
Ignite Novice Talker Posts: 13 Talkupation:	Google and Yahoo by far. Some of the top lists I'm part of also send a decent amount of traffic. I've also had a lot of luck with newsgroups. __________________ www.carBC.com Daily Automotive News and Reviews

03-31-2003, 04:01 AM	#26 (permalink)
praveen Life is a Dream Latest Blog Post: Busy Posts: 3,547 Location: in a distant land far away from reality Talkupation:	links from other sites and google. and toan extent, msn,lycos and aol.. but so far google is the major source __________________ Praveen Web Tools - Smilies - Celebs - Polls - Bookmarks - Indian Food Useful Threads, Tutorials and Resources Graphics - Templates - Dreamweaver - Javascript - SEO - Ruby on Rails - Ajax Tutorials - More Ajax - CSS - More CSS

06-10-2003, 04:33 AM	#28 (permalink)
emory7 Extreme Talker Latest Blog Post: How to Lose a SEO Contest Posts: 173 Location: Marietta, GA Talkupation:	For me, first is links from other sites, mostly from freeware listings and CIW Toplists. Second is Google. Third is MSN because I recently had some articles listed in Zeal. Fourth is probably people hotlinking to my images--Arrrgghhh! __________________ Clickfire - Viewpoints, Tools and Content for Webmasters

12-31-2002, 04:27 AM	#23 (permalink)
Lars Novice Talker Posts: 13 Location: Colorado Talkupation:	1. Word of Mouth (I am still surprised how well that works) 2. Free Virtual Greeting Cards (I made some for Christmas and now I made a few for Happy New Year, will try to add more and more categories over time since it works pretty good and is a nice free service)

01-11-2003, 12:08 PM	#24 (permalink)
bobkan Average Talker Posts: 19 Location: Bedford Talkupation:	Some facts - Around 30 million people in the UK (x100+worldwide) use the internet and 80% of them use search engines to find information, products and services. It is, therefore, crucial for your website to be included in as many search engines as possible. The internet is still growing. (URL SNIPPED) Designing a website and submitting to free search engines is not enough. For maximum impact, ensure you give the right signals to robots, and submit your site to engines and directories aimed at your target traffic (URL SNIPPED) Can I do it myself? Yes and, when you achieve a good listing, the results are worth it. If you want to do it yourself, there are a number of options: 1. A priority search engine listing to reach 80% of internet users through search engines like AltaVista, MSN, LookSmart, Google, Excite (URL SNIPPED) 2. Submit your website to 1000's of Engines, directories and over 500,000 link pages (URL SNIPPED) 3. If you have a website but do not have the budget for priority and mass exposure submissions, you can use a FREE submission service (URL SNIPPED) 4. Over 50% of internet traffic is from non-English speaking countries. Develop a world wide internet presence by localising your website, (or just the key pages), products and services into other languages (URL SNIPPED) Of course forums are good too! <Admin Editted. Bob, I welcome you here to Webmaster-Talk. However this traffic extraction/self advertising in almost all your posts can not continue. Thank You.>

03-31-2003, 02:46 AM	#25 (permalink)
websquash Novice Talker Posts: 13 Talkupation:	Hello, We get most of the traffic from google and links from other websites. Setting up link exchange is a slow process but it really brings great results in the long run as search engine ranking is also affected by the link popularity. Thankyou Birju http://www.websquash.com

06-05-2003, 08:03 PM	#27 (permalink)
idomainbrokers Novice Talker Posts: 8 Talkupation:	large optin update email lists, you have good content people want updates,

11-15-2003, 05:40 PM	#31 (permalink)
EvilHaider Skilled Talker Posts: 56 Talkupation:	I haven't done any paid advertising yet for my web design services site. I submitted to search engines and got listed in some free directories that list web designers/ web design firms. I get a few hits from these places. www.marketingtool.com is one www.firmlist.com is another www.1234-web-designers.com I think is another.

11-19-2003, 01:06 AM	#32 (permalink)
lionfind Experienced Talker Posts: 49 Location: montreal Talkupation:	join link exchange and try to trade links with sites with better google PR than yours __________________ Top 10 Web Hosting at less than $10/month billy@lionfind.com

01-08-2004, 09:07 AM	#33 (permalink)
john546 Ultra Talker Posts: 393 Talkupation:	I have traffic coming from many different areas of the web! But my best performing traffic comes from Google and PPC Search Engines. This is because the traffic is very targeted! I could be like a lot of other people who first puts a site up on the Web, and join lots of traffic exchanges, auto surf for hits programs, etc. But whats the point as you will only recieve untargeted traffic and it will only waste alot of your bandwidth. I find that I have exchanged links with alot of other sites, but I don't think I get many hits from them. Maybe it's because my sites title is SimplySearch4it! which gives me a listing in most of sites that I have exchanged links with, a page 3 or 4 listing. Well! as longs as it improves my PR, thats one of the main things!!! __________________ Affiliate Programs Directory - Over 2,000 Programs - Contextual Ads, CPM Popunders, plus more ---> 125+ CPA Affiliate Networks \| Earn upto $.65 CPM on Banner Ads \| Play Free Games

01-08-2004, 09:22 PM	#34 (permalink)
thevirus Webmaster Talker Posts: 589 Talkupation:	Articles that I write and submitt for reprint with my author bio __________________ A Webmaster Forum - Please we need webmasters to help get the ball rolling! Poker Forum, Teeth Whitening

02-10-2004, 05:58 PM	#36 (permalink)
dymemedia Junior Talker Posts: 2 Talkupation:	Google for me and directorys such as dmoz __________________ www.dymemedia.com Beautiful-Professional web templates Unique webdesign & more.

02-19-2004, 04:51 PM	#37 (permalink) Mostly search engines
eCommando Average Talker Posts: 19 Location: California, USA Talkupation:	On my e-commerce sites: Google # 1 Yahoo # 2 then PPC stuff. __________________ Online deals - shopping coupons! Online Shopping Directory. Give us 1 link and get 4 links back [PR 6]

02-27-2004, 12:27 AM	#38 (permalink)
xeddy Skilled Talker Latest Blog Post: Eye Metaphors in Urdu with English Translation and... Posts: 89 Location: California Talkupation:	Google and msn work best for me... __________________ Free WordPress Themes \| Proxy Directory \| Desi Music Videos

03-12-2004, 01:52 AM	#39 (permalink)
web4world Novice Talker Posts: 14 Location: India Talkupation:	we are search engine optimization firm and we research log of each of our client's site and our experience says that google gives more than 80% traffic to any of our client site and than it comes to yahoo and msn and than to the local regional directories. Warm Regards Webmaster Web4world.com Web4india.com __________________ Warm Regards Webmaster www.web4world.com \| www.web4india.com \| www.web4templates.com \| www.web4promotion.com \|

04-12-2004, 01:52 PM	#40 (permalink)
byronm Average Talker Posts: 19 Talkupation:	mozdex.com