Comments on: Search Engine Traffic vs Social Traffic: Traffic Generation and Monetization

By: Social network or Search engines? | reggiebarnett.info

Social network or Search engines? | reggiebarnett.info — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:42:36 +0000

[…] summarize everything here I believe search engines are great for massive traffic and social networking can be just as great and maybe even better, for […]

By: Massive Traffic Report - Alex

Massive Traffic Report - Alex — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:21:22 +0000

From my experience – social traffic is not very targeted. These people are searchers and browsers. I am sure it depends on a niche you are at, and for some niches it can truly be a goldmine. But many, many times I`ve found that other sources are much more profitable, and social traffic is not worth the effort.

Of course, we all need to be socialize and there`s no business without it, but other activities for me and my business are much more worth the time and effort.

By: Andrew Wee

Andrew Wee — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:01:15 +0000

In reply to Ben Yoskovitz.

Ben: Sticky social sites are ones where:
-the members visit multiple times a day
-are tightly focused on a niche
-the members are intensely loyal

There’re general social sites, and there’s sticky tightly-theme niche social sites.

It’s the latter I’m refering to.

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:05:20 +0000

Andrew – what social sites are you referring to that are sticky?

There’s no question that getting relevant results can be tough through search engines, but given the volume of “noise” on social sites, I would expect the problem to be similar. And having seen the “digg effect” (uber tons of traffic from hitting the front page that drops off to almost “regular” levels in a few days) I’m not sure social sites do bring more stickiness.