Did I turn the corner with Search Engine traffic? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Measuring search volume by percentage is a bit odd, but I guess you mean in relation to your total traffic. That's all well and good until you get a major hit article that makes it on a big site and it blows everything out of whack. Your 17% would jump back down pretty quick in that case.

My normal search engine traffic is at about 48% these days but that includes some residual referal traffic from big articles. Before I ever got featured anywhere big, my search engine traffic was about 62%.

Well, I never had an article go viral or anything, so that may explain these numbers:

November – 40.44%
December – 38.13%
January (as of 1/13/11) – 60.46%

I am focusing a lot more on making my site a resource, and ramping up my SEO efforts is a large part of that.

less than 10% for us as well. hope to change this soon.

sandy@yesiamcheap said:

24.50% from google, but most importantly much of it is for the same key words with clicky readers.  I would say 3 articles give me 85% of my adsense revenue.

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we get no revenue hehe … $7 in DEC and about $3.50 this month.

our niche isn't a hot earner it seems :)

I get about 24% of my traffic from search engines. I would like to up it to 40% by the end of year.  SEO is something I'll be focusing on throughout the year to get it there.

You should aim for 70-80% traffic from SE. This is where the money is ;-)

Unless you want to develop products or services but that's another ballgame…

 

I have left Reddit, Stumble Upon, Digg and the others social bookmarking sites. They bring a lot of traffic but they don't click and they don't get your RSS… that's BS traffic according to me.

The Financial Blogger said:

You should aim for 70-80% traffic from SE. This is where the money is ;-)

Unless you want to develop products or services but that's another ballgame…

 

I have left Reddit, Stumble Upon, Digg and the others social bookmarking sites. They bring a lot of traffic but they don't click and they don't get your RSS… that's BS traffic according to me.

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That's a great way to look at it. With those social bookmarking sites, do you think that getting a link from them (if your post gets published) helps your standing in the search engines much?

KNS Financial said:

sandy@yesiamcheap said:

24.50% from google, but most importantly much of it is for the same key words with clicky readers.  I would say 3 articles give me 85% of my adsense revenue.

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Wow, that is an amazing number. What position do these articles rank for their keyword?

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Key words: tenant from hell  page 1 position 9

Key words: free government appliance (and lots of variations) page 1  position 1  (all variations are page 1 lowest position 5)

Key words: stupid ideas making millions (and a few variations) page 1 position 6

 

The government appliance people are my bread and butter.  I love them.

KNS Financial said:

The Financial Blogger said:

You should aim for 70-80% traffic from SE. This is where the money is ;-)

Unless you want to develop products or services but that's another ballgame…

 

I have left Reddit, Stumble Upon, Digg and the others social bookmarking sites. They bring a lot of traffic but they don't click and they don't get your RSS… that's BS traffic according to me.

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That's a great way to look at it. With those social bookmarking sites, do you think that getting a link from them (if your post gets published) helps your standing in the search engines much?
 

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the day my article gets published and I have a traffic pike from social media, I notice that my google search rises as well. the problem is that the stats come back to normal the day after… so getting published is too much word for the results given!