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do you get much traffic from Social Networks?

Discussion in 'Social Networks' started by travelsite, Sep 15, 2009.

  1. #1
    digg, twitter etc...

    do you get traffic on per post or steady traffic?

    does it worth the trouble?
     
    travelsite, Sep 15, 2009 IP
  2. ilovethebeach

    ilovethebeach Peon

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    I get most of my social networking traffic from Twitter. I don't over post too many links. If people that are following you see that you post a ton of links they are going to quit clicking on them. Only post links when they are relevant and not too often.
     
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    ~kev~ Well-Known Member

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    In my opinion, the sites you listed - no, its not worth the trouble. Its worth a little bit of trouble, but not a lot.

    Traffic from sites like stumbleupon have about a 90% bounce rate. With a boucnerate that high, do not spend a lot of time on the project. Even though stumble might be my 8th - 10th highest source of traffic, it has one of the highes bounce rates.

    On the other hand, youtube is my 4 - 5 highest source of traffic and my #2 source of targeted traffic with an 18% - 23% bounce rate.

    So I spend a lot of time making youtube videos, and very little time on social bookmarking. In the same amount of time I can spend bookmarkling some of my pages, I can put that time towards video editing.


    What is the bounce rate of that twitter traffic? Especially compared to other sources of traffic?

    You need to take a look at the WHOLE picture - such as amount of time spent on the project, bounce rate compared to other traffic sources,,,, and anything you can think of. Do not spend 2 hours working on traffic that has an 80% - 90% bounce rate. When you can take that time and dedicate it to working on traffic sources that has a 20% bounce rate.
     
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  4. jada23

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    I don't deal with social media sites very much; so I'm really not qualified to answer this question. But I've always believe that social media traffic was un-targeted. Maybe I'm wrong. Social media traffic is very good, though, for building list via squeeze page, where sales can be pitched later.
     
    jada23, Sep 15, 2009 IP
  5. nada01

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    i prefer to register as many as to web directory rather than social network
    there are certainty reason why people join to social network and link building has low priority so then people almost will not check the link
     
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    geohsu Peon

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    i don't get many social networking traffic from digg,twitter.maybe i should pay more attention to these works.
     
    geohsu, Sep 16, 2009 IP
  7. Highwayman

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    It depends where on a social networking site you can get your link to be. I once got a link on the first page of Sphinn which resulted in a huge amount of traffic, which was visible in my Analytics.
     
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    i don't get more traffic via twitter but i got more traffic via stumble upon!!!
     
    theseomonk, Sep 16, 2009 IP
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    rexertea Active Member

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    I do get traffic from social networking sites but still looking for a formula that will give me huge traffic. if anyone knows about it, please let me know.
     
    rexertea, Sep 16, 2009 IP
  10. zexy

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    Yes, Digg and StumbleUpon could get you a lot of (useless) traffic.
    Make sure you can actually convert that traffic into sales otherwise it's a waste of time and bandwidth :)
     
    zexy, Sep 16, 2009 IP
  11. Phooey

    Phooey Active Member

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    I get steady traffic from a variety of social networks and social bookmarking, but it is still only a small percentage of my overall traffic. The large majority of my traffic is organic.
     
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    ishan001 Active Member

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    I do get some traffic but it's almost negligible when compared to overall traffic. Best traffic sources for me have been other blogs and search engines.
     
    ishan001, Sep 16, 2009 IP
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    Great point, totally agree with you. It's useless if there is no conversion from the traffic.
     
    cpanel, Sep 16, 2009 IP
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    Yeah, I heard of people getting massive traffic from social networks but I really don't know how to go about that the right way. I tried digg but my posts rarely get more than two clicks from there.
     
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    I tried twitter and get around 6 to 14 clicks per day each tweet.
     
    duran, Sep 16, 2009 IP
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    once I get tons of traffic from reddit but now, I couldn't get too much for its policy
     
    zhangandma, Sep 16, 2009 IP
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    If you get your content right, social media sites can send 10’s of thousands of visitors to your site in a short space of time.
     
    jada23, Sep 16, 2009 IP
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    #18
    No I dont' get much traffic from social site. :)
     
    zehar, Sep 16, 2009 IP
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    #19
    i tried with orkut and twitter the traffic is pretty decent
     
    praveenram05, Sep 16, 2009 IP
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    85% of my traffic comes from social networking sites including YouTube, Digg, and etc.
     
    sharperknife, Sep 16, 2009 IP