Top 7 Traffic Sources, My Web Analytics

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Getting quality traffic to your website will always be the challenge for website owners. Lucky for us, there’s a huge number of possible traffic sources for us to get our share.

Here are my top traffic sources bringing in daily quality traffic. These are not all traffic sources available to you, i am just sharing with you what is working for me right now. I encourage you to test new things and find your best converting traffic sources.

My Top 7 Traffic Sources Explained

Before going into the sauce of this article, let me point out that i am using Clicky (http://getclicky.com/) for tracking statistics and user behavior. Unlike Google Analytics, Clicky is a paid service (starting at something like 5$/month) and provides incredibly accurate and valuable information on website tracking.

1. Twitter

Many say that Twitter is useless and doesn’t bring any real quality traffic and that can be the case if you’re not using Twitter properly. My Twitter account brings in a lot of traffic everyday, and from my stats get about a 1% conversion on targeted actions. That means for every 100 visitors one either contacts me from the Contact section, or gets in touch with me from another way.

2. LinkedIn

LinkedIn is definitely one of the favorites! By spending a few minutes per day on LinkedIn groups and Q&A, i am able to generate daily targeted traffic. The volume is not high, sometimes it can be 10 visits, but these 10 visits are highly targeted and most likely to convert into something.

3. Organic traffic (search engine traffic)

Search engines bring are a constant source of traffic to this website. Some traffic is highly targeted (from targeted keywords) and other traffic is coming from long-tail searches with blog posts being listed in top results.

4. Facebook fan pages

Facebook Fan pages are a great way to spread some buzz around your brand. They can be used for various purpose and can be very beneficial if the page goes viral.

5. Feeder blog / Guest Blogging

Creating content on other respected blogs, or building your own industry blog, and carefully promoting your main website there can be very interesting also, some decent traffic can be generated that way.

6. Bookmarking (StumbleUpon)

Social bookmarking has been popular ever since they came out and webmasters understood their capabilities. Although almost all of them are not worth mentioning here, i have to admit that StumbleUpon is bringing traffic day in and day out.

7. Signatures in email

My special bonus one (and is still surprising to me!) is my signature email! Every day i see visits from my email signature. I’m not talking about traffic from Aweber or email marketing, traffic from people clicking on my signature link, talk about free traffic! The average user action is 6, and bounce rate 2% (amazing).

It’s important for website owners to understand that in order for your website to be “healthy” you need to work on different traffic sources. Not only it secures your ongoing traffic, but different sources bring different users and spreads your brand into different communities.

Don’t forget to cross promote your traffic sources into your sales funnel!

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