So Steve, how DO you get your traffic?

[Jonathan Browne]

You've said many times that SEO traffic only amounts to about 10% of your sites traffic.

It would be very interesting and educational to find out where the rest of your traffic is coming from at this time.

[colonel]

Originally Posted by savage

search traffic is less than 10% of my site's total traffic. Most of my new visitors come from referrals, especially links from other bloggers. It's always been like that. Facebook and twitter are becoming more significant referrers as well.

hth

[Jonathan Browne]

Yeah yeah, but it would be more useful to see a detailed and specific breakdown. I mean we're all aware of the fact that twitter, facebook, and other bloggers can send a lot of traffic.

It would just be interesting to see who and what are specifically sending the lions share of traffic to steves site.

[hawkal]

Can't get percentages of traffic but these may give some idea's of where linked traffic is coming from

Site Explorer - Search Results

link: "stevepavlina.com" - Google Search

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Browne

You've said many times that SEO traffic only amounts to about 10% of your sites traffic.

It would be very interesting and educational to find out where the rest of your traffic is coming from at this time.

People love to share links to my articles on blogs, forums, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Often they share their thoughts about the articles as well (i.e. "I agree/disagree with this article...").

There were 73,041 referrers to my site last month. That's a lot of inbound links that people clicked to find my site. Most only attract a few visitors at best (i.e. from personal blogs with mininal traffic). Some generate hundreds of clicks per month (i.e. popular blogs with lots of traffic).

Every link is a passive source of ongoing traffic.

People link to my articles because they find them interesting, valuable, and unique, and they want to share and/or discuss the ideas in them.

If you want to copy my approach the way I did it, then pick a field you love, read 500 of the best books in that field, experiment for about 15 years to develop and test your own insights, and then start sharing what you've learned that you believe would benefit others.