Comments on: Near perfect analytics day

By: Ivan | SEO Consultant

Ivan | SEO Consultant

Interesting to see the increase of the Direct Traffic in the last few days (on the small chart) as well...

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

Brent, I think I would incline towards referral (non social media) traffic. Think everyday link in NY times online :)

By: Brent Billock

Brent Billock

If you were to be overweighted in any category, what would you rather it be?

I'm thinking direct traffic, for the reasons you state above about search being the most fragile leg in the stool. Your repeat visitors are a good indication of whether your site continues to offer something of value to the users who have already found you.

By: Seth W

Seth W

VLAD: That is great! Your clients diverse traffic is a real positive. I do like search engine traffic, but the best conversions come from referrals most often. They are going to your site for one reason...

Stumble upon brings a lot of traffic, but it isn't always great at converting new traffic.

By: Learn Russian

Learn Russian

Vladimir, I think diversifying is the best way to get traffic as you stated in your post. I also believe in organic traffic. However, One point more that could be added is, you should try to diversify across different search engines. Even though Google will always give you the lion's share of your traffic, if you can get or even target pages to rank in Yahoo or MSN for example rather than always Google you have a little bit more security, if for one reason or another your site falls from Google.

By: ignacio

ignacio

wow... I think this is really unusual. But, I've never thought of it that way, it is a good approach.

I think sooner or later search engine traffic beats the rest...