For news publishers, more is better, especially in an era of declining print. Lately, more users are reading more news, spending more time on news sites, and visiting more frequently.
Google Directs Traffic To Amazon UK
Amazon UK is a giant in its own right, but it turns out that the retailer owes a good portion of its traffic (around 25 percent) to Google. And with one good deed deserving another, Amazon sends around ten percent of its visitors straight back to the search engine.
Facebook Widgets Cause Dramatic Traffic Increase
In what there calling "The Facebook Effect," metrics firm Quantcast says widgets developed on the Facebook platform are driving substantial traffic spikes for the websites they’re connected to.
PPC Traffic; International YouTube; Safer Results
SERoundtable looks at a WebmasterWorld thread to find out What Type of Traffic Can You Expect from Yahoo Ads Compared to Google Ads.
Do You Really Need Traffic from Search?
Jennifer Laycock is starting an interesting experiment where she’s out to prove a business can survive without Google. Actually she’s out to prove that a business can survive without any search traffic at all. In time the search engines will be allowed back in, but the idea is to show that search traffic while useful is not necessary to build a business and drive both traffic and sales.
Wikipedia / Wikimedia Traffic
Leuksman.com published some revealing statistics on Wikimedia traffic.
What Traffic Sources Should You Target?
Recently I’ve read about otherwise sane Internet Marketers (also called SEO’s) targeting Digg comments at an attempt to direct traffic to a particular website. The first thing that came to mind was that running a campaign specifically to garner traffic from the comments of a techie social media site is probably not going to have a great ROI. I may be wrong, depending on your target market, but nonetheless blog posts abound SEO’s spending lots of time on ineffective strategies abound.
Search Engines Drive Traffic To Retail Sites
Retail Web sites received 25 percent of their traffic from search engines for May 2007, according to findings from Hitwise. This was an increase of 0.7 percent over May 2006.
Revolution Health Traffic Getting Fit
Former AOL head man Steve Case has been actively promoting his latest venture, Revolution Health, and the website is seeing a rise in visits.
Blogging, Affiliate Marketing & Social Traffic
Here’s an open solicitation for questions in the 3 areas I focus on: