With the year half over, I thought it would be worthwhile to share with you the top domains sending SEOmoz traffic (from January to present). You can always view our traffic numbers on the advertising page (despite the fact that we're not offering advertising at the moment), but the actual referring sources themselves can offer a good deal of insight. I wish more blogs provided this - it's something I'm always intensely curious about.
- Direct Access - 45.10%
- Digg.com - 8.35%
- Google - 7.21%
- Del.icio.us - 2.06%
- I-Mezzo.net - 1.82%
- StumbleUpon (toolbar) - 1.72%
- Bloglines - 1.55%
- Web2.0Awards.org - 0.86%
- Google.co.uk - 0.85%
- Shard.jp - 0.71%
- SEOCompany.ca - 0.59%
- Search.Yahoo.com - 0.54%
- Google.ca - 0.50%
- SearchEngineWatch.com - 0.50%
- My.Yahoo.com - 0.47%
- Ajaxian.com - 0.44%
- New-Akiba.com - 0.43%
- CSSMania.com - 0.40%
- Search.MSN.com - 0.39%
- Images.Google.com - 0.32%
Overall, we've got 4,500 unique domains that have sent 2 or more visitors this year. The figures most encouraging to me, however, are the type-in traffic, bookmarks and traffic via sites like my.yahoo.com, the Google personalized homepage and Bloglines. For the full year, we've had 415,344 first time visitors and 206,356 returning - 50% return rates make me very, very happy.
Why don;t you track your RSS feed Rand? I bet that a big chunk of the 45.10%. Seems to me that tracking your feed traffic would be a really useful stat.
No Netvibes ? Check your RSS feed stats ! ;)
Wow: I just looked at your advertising page. Kudo's and congrats. That is a huge jump in traffic from last year. Refresh us, Rand, what were the piece(s) that resulted in such an enormous traffic jump starting last December.
The growth in traffic is powerful.
Dave
A good portion of the direct traffic could be RSS feed related. For example, I bet you're registering this visit from me as direct access because you can't tell I got here from the feed I read via Newsgator in Microsoft Outlook.
A service like FeedBurner (not affiliated, just a user) could give you more insight in to your feed related traffic.
Marios - great idea; we've been thinking about switching to Feedburner to give us a better idea of how that traffic gets here. :)
Feedburner rocks. I use it on all my sites (now). Just added my last site (my personal site) over the weekend. My commercial sites have been using it for almost 2 years now. I can't live without those stats!
BTW - in a related topic, did you know both your RSS feeds are down right now Rand? Perhaps you are in transition to feedburner? Or maybe you're just blocking my local machine's IP since I'm always pinging to find out what the MOZ is up to. :)
Feed is fixed
Actually, it is suprising you aren't getting much Google traffic. Or maybe it is that bookmark and Digg traffic is that astounding?
Your articles and blog should attract some traffic, right? Does it?
Thanks for sharing, anyway :)
Kind of confirms the analysis of the Socializer stats.
Good one Larry is not doing good with you :)