Search Engine Traffic
Most of us don’t bother about search engine traffic anymore these days since the existence of social networking services like Myspace, Friendster, Facebook, Digg, Stumbleupon, Yahoo Buzz, Entrecard, Blogcatalog, Mybloglog, etc. Of course, the traffic at social networks sites rules the world of Internet. If a webmaster who don’t utilize this social traffic to their clients, then he or she might face a lot of hardship to achieve their target traffic that they need to provide to their customer.
Getting a decent amount of traffic from social networks is easy. With Entrecard itself, some are getting more than 500 visits a day. We are not talking about other methods like Buzz, Digg, Facebook, etc here. If anyone can utilize all the social network section, they might even get Alexa 4 figure ranking. But, maintaining a good response with other social network sites take a lot of time. We need to add more friends, increase our visibility and take part in various networking sections.
At the end, we might fully depend on this traffic and totally forget about search engine traffic. Search engine traffic brings in more targeted traffic compared to social networking traffics. People are looking for some “keywords” in search engine a will dig deeper until they get the answer they want. This is the potential traffic for our business. So, if you are looking for serious traffic and good buyers for your website, you need to look in to SEO (Search engine optimization) for your business.
There are so many ways to bring up our site in top 10 or top 3 ranking in search results. But, getting this top spot is not an easy task. It might take a lot of time for continuous SEO methods to push our link up in the search engine results. For example, if your website is selling “watch”, there are 24+ million searches done in October 2008 on this keyword in google. Imagine of getting the top 3 spots for this keyword, your website might be getting hundreds of thousands visits each day. No other social networks can get you this traffic.
Hope you are clear about the importance of SEO for your business website or blog. Having a million dollar website with 10 years of advance technology applied in your website programs for your visitors, but you have not done any SEO for it, then this million dollar website investment might be equivalent to dead a site. Of course, nobody wants that to happen for their investment. If you are not making any good visitors, customers or money from your website, then it is better to start your SEO engine for it.
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December 1st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I use a handy SEO wordpress plugin on the Blazing Minds blog it works quite well with constructing the keywords for my pages and enables me to add/delete my own, I wouldn’t do without it. I also have plugin which adds a strip of graphics at the bottom of each post which allows the post to be submitted to a collection of social network sites.
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December 1st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Atniz, I totally agree. I would choose search traffic over the social kind any day of the week. Of course any traffic is good, but I find search traffic to be of much higher quality.
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December 2nd, 2008 at 3:47 am
Thanks for being one of my top droppers in Nov 2008!
http://kisahberuang.com/2008/12/02/top-ec-droppers-for-nov-2008/
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December 2nd, 2008 at 7:27 am
Hi
I just wanted you to know that I decided not run that contest and blogrolled your for work at home to help you out now you know you’ll have a PR4
Soon enough I stumbled you a few also
Peace
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December 2nd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Hi Atniz i agree with u seo is most important thing for our blogs
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December 2nd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
This is an interesting post. I already download some of the reading material about SEO (Just out of curiosity). I noticed that blog with specific keywords, such as “making money” or “making money online” drives more traffic to the site. I am not sure mine will attract much, but hey, nothing wrong for learning it right?
Thanks for sharing (This reminds me to update my blog feed in Facebook
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December 3rd, 2008 at 4:23 am
Hi Atniz,
Thanks for visiting my site,
I agree with you, Search engine traffic it is more targeted than social do, they even are more eager to spend money than social traffic does.
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December 3rd, 2008 at 7:16 am
Hi Atniz,
This is the first time I can visit your site though I have tried many times, I don’t know why it is blocked here. I use a proxy server now.
I find your posts are very helpful. Yeah, SEO is important and we can gain more from it!
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December 3rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I totally agree that we should consider SEO and since the algorithms of SE changes everyday we should keep up with this so that we could cope up with this kind of changes in rankings. Got any idea about the effect of SearchWiki on SE rankings?
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December 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Hi Atniz.
I would rather have more search engine traffic than social. It´s the type of traffic you don´t have to work (like in EC) to get it, only seo your site.
As I mentioned in a previous comment, I think it´s the best targeted traffic a niche blogger can have, it also means you´re ranking well.
A good week.
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Right On, Having a Great Social Network exposure is great but doesn’t mean squatt if you don’t have a great SEO in place aswell. Utilize both and success will surely come. P.S I found your website via Entrecard
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December 4th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I get the bulk of my traffic from Google. As you say, the Social Networks are pretty easy, but take a lot of time. You can get hundreds of friends, but if you don’t stumble, digg, or otherwise vote up their stuff on a regular basis, they will not be voting up your stuff.
Google likes keywords-and it is not that hard to write a 300 word post with about 25 keywords dropped in here and there.
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December 4th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
It doesn’t matter from where does your traffic come.. How much matters…
Never keep all your eggs in the same basket.. Make sure the traffic your getting from a particular site is not more than 35-40% of your over all traffic. The reason is if your huge traffic sources bans you, or throws you a few pages back.. you will lose all your traffic from that source
Just my 2 cents.
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December 5th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
well sometime I lost my site from SERP, I wonder why google updates so fast at this time.
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December 5th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hi! Atniz..
You’re invited to join us on a BEARY-special meme, have fun!
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December 5th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Just wanted to let you know, I do visit you every single day and drop on you
I do read your posts, but I have to admit I don’t know a thing about SEO or any of that stuff. I will just keep reading your blog and maybe learn something 
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December 6th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I would completely agree with you Atniz. And i wanna share my experience on it as far. As i started my blog without trying to bring a single visitor to my blog . Then after one month i got indexed and recieved a visitor on my blog from google. That means my blog was now seo very well. Then i started posting regularly and work on keywords of posts by searching them to google my title i wanna give to post ansh how many sites are my competitiors. Then i started recieving 15-20 visitors. Then i thought of advertise my blog then started using entrecard and my traffic got to 50 visitors but were less then started 300 drops for some days my traffic got to 150 But realized my bounce rate to greater than 75% then stopped using entrecard. And now its well seo and google is giving a constant traffic of 50 visitors and My page rank =0 as i say all it works is seo.
Now trying to get some good backlinks to beat some keywords above than me in google.
And i completely work on it. So i advice to use social bookmarking with mixxing of seo to have great result. Because in social bookmarking you have to work daily but once you worked on seo you only have to sit and post.
I think i should have conducted post on it so long comment
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December 7th, 2008 at 1:13 am
I mostly focus on search engine traffic, myself. While social network/bookmarking sites can bring a lot of traffic, some (like stumbleupon) tend to bring visitors that don’t stay very long. Search engine traffic is the most targeted, IMO.
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December 7th, 2008 at 5:54 am
I agree with Mizé comment “… social. It´s the type of traffic you don´t have to work…”
When I want to find something online, I personally go to a search engine first!
But having said that, I’ve been representing a new biz for the last 6 months – and we have received more sales through social networks than CEO to date – I imagine that will/should change in time… the sites Google page rank is 4… IS THAT ANY GOOD FOR A NEW SITE?
Parting comment – Social networks can be loads of work… but I think the trick is to work with something you love. Therefore, becoming involved in these groups can be fun and not so much work.
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December 7th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
My blog mostly receives traffic from Google Search n which i think is the best..I try my best to get every article listed perfectly into that search engine so that i get traffic from that keyword.
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December 9th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Hello,
I have been of late possessed by the issues you have posted in the last three-four articles here. I have managed to improve my Alexa ranking fairly sharply within a short period but not such luck with Google. I have been employing multiple SEO tools at the same time as being active on major social network sites. My success at getting back links has been low though I have campaigned though sticky post/badge about Do Follow as well as seriously commenting freely at good value sites. In fact my current post ‘Tribulations of an EVolving Blogger’ has an honest detailing tinged with humor but seriously, I’ve outlined major concerns. Will be delighted if you check it out and record some impressions.
Quite a few posts here of real good value. Will pick up all suggestions of value. Thanks.
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December 10th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I couldn’t agree more! This is also one of the most difficult points to explain to a client when talking about SEO, particularly if they are new to online marketing. It’s not always the highest traffic keywords that will gain the most sales.
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December 11th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Hi!
Atniz i agree with u seo is most important thing for our blogs
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December 11th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Being new 2 ‘BLOGGING WORLD’ at the moment doing lot of trial and error & 2 b honest ur blog post are really intrstng. Hope its ok if i add ur blog 2 my blog roll?
Rags
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December 12th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
yup, better is the search engine traffic than from social network sites..
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December 13th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Hi Atniz.
Noticed you´re missing…
Hope everything is Ok with you.
Good weekend. Cheers.
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December 13th, 2008 at 8:50 am
@Mize
Missing whom?
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December 13th, 2008 at 10:56 am
first of all, a really nice article especially interesting for people who run a commercial website.
On personal websites (even when they are selling stuff) I think people tend to spend way too much energy in getting more traffic instead of putting interesting content. It seems so obvious maar I think a lot of bloggers for get that sometime.
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December 14th, 2008 at 5:40 am
that is true, better is the search engine traffic than from social network sites…
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December 16th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Thanks for the tip
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December 18th, 2008 at 9:26 am
i think even if search traffic is good today most of the blogs use social traffic to earn money.
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December 19th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Just join EntreCard and ended up your site while looking for Entrecard site to drop card. Very glad to find such a great site also very grateful to know Penangites like you, who doing well online. Would appreciate to exchange blog link with you if you don’t mind.
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December 24th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
however, social network sites can be a way of having an initial traffic prior to ranking to search engines. it is helpful specially if you’re site is new.
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December 25th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Hi Atniz.
Passing by to wish you a Merry Christmas!
Peace, Health and Joy.
Cheers.
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December 26th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Also here to wish you a merry X-mas
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December 27th, 2008 at 5:58 am
yeah, i wish i knew about seo a long time ago. it’s only now that i’m learning but my blog has already taken a different direction and it is so hard to apply seo to it now. sigh.
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December 29th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Hi Atniz.
Hope all is well. Now that the end of the year is approaching, I dropped by to wish you a Good New Year celebration.
See you next year
Cheers.
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January 5th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Indeed. Hopefully after some time has passed, I’ll begin to see some search engine traffic myself. I feel it’s worth the effort.
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