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Referral traffic is falling. Good or Bad?

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Hello,
I have seen that many members are complaining that their referral traffic is falling. How could they increase it? So, I think it would be best for me if I create a thread on this issue here. Hope there are many good SEO experts here who can give some valuable information about increasing referral traffic. :)
 
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Referral traffic isn't good at all, so you will want to hire someone to do your SEO campaign or do it yourself. Referral traffic was on the last place when it comes to traffic, always.
#1 Organic traffic
#2 Direct Traffic (which i belive its is more important then organic traffic)
#3 Social Media traffic.
#4 Referral traffic

To increase you referral traffic submit your site to as many directories as possible, at least try to submit 10 per day and make sure the directory has at least PR 2.

All the best,
Kw3
 
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Referral traffic isn't good at all, so you will want to hire someone to do your SEO campaign or do it yourself. Referral traffic was on the last place when it comes to traffic, always.
#1 Organic traffic
#2 Direct Traffic (which i belive its is more important then organic traffic)
#3 Social Media traffic.
#4 Referral traffic

To increase you referral traffic submit your site to as many directories as possible, at least try to submit 10 per day and make sure the directory has at least PR 2.

All the best,
Kw3
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Wrong.

Traffic is traffic. Referral traffic is good. A website with high referral traffic is a website with high quality/a high quantity of links leading to it. Its good. Its not worth as much as organic and direct traffic for obvious reasons. FYI social media traffic is referral traffic.

Directory and article submissions are useless now.



@OP: check you analytics to find where you're loosing your referral traffic - if it's from social media, put more effort into engaging with your network of followers (polls on facebook pages, re-tweets and follow-backs on twitter, etc. usual shit). If the traffic fall is from other websites which are no longer perfoming well on Google or otherwis, tough luck.
 
^ The panda and penguin update pretty much screwed up all older methods of link building - article submissions, directory submissions, footer links/exhanges, automated social media feeds, forum posts, link wheels, blog comments, the lot.

These were the only 'easy to milk' loopholes in google's algorithm which still had some effect on SERPs, which are now old and useless. Some may have negative effects on your website.

Keep all your methods of link building as organic as possible - make it look legit.
 
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Depends where the referral traffic is coming from. If it is from quality sites then its bad.
I am one of the people who believe Direct Traffic > Organic traffic. Nothing better than loyal visitors who come visit you everyday :)
 
Article and Directory submissions have been dead for longer than I care to remember. These practices should only be used to bulk out and diversify your link build- the improvements you will gain from them alone are slim to none.

XG
 
In most of the cases the referral traffic always remains as a fraction of the total traffic, so nothing to worry about it. This may be due to lowering the importance (or obsoleting) of most of the directories or blogs from where you get the traffic.
 
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