Everything Else

Oh, goody, I thought it was only me, but Danny Sullivan helps explain that most site owners see 70% or more of their search engine traffic coming from Google. That too has been my experience across most of my sites, although I have to admit as time goes on I actually do less and less optimization on all my sites, the numbers for Google traffic remain at about 70%+. Sigh.

In my own experience, traffic from general directories has almost disappeared. Years ago there was a time when Dmoz and Google directory delivered a lot of traffic in their own right. I still get some traffic from niche directories but I'm wondering if niche directories aren't also becoming just a sideline. Surprisingly I still get a goodly amount of direct click traffic from all those link pages that webmasters build on their sites and that most SEO's claim are worthless. Search engine's might discount those pages but people still find them useful. Finally I still get fair traffic to my various niche portals from StumbleUpon, so obviously surfing is not dead.

(Note: None of this applies to this blog or this domain (talmir.info) which I don't do any promoting or optimizing for and which I let spread strictly via WOM. That is pretty much on purpose just to see how traffic grows organically.)