Comments on: Are You After Traffic or Visitors?

By: Akash Kumar

Akash Kumar — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:06:37 +0000

Everyone here is looking for visitors not traffic, I am still really unsure how much traffic that SU gets us are related in SEO though. But yes SU does provide VISITORS.

By: Manisa Mondal

Manisa Mondal — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:26:25 +0000

Really worth reading in true sense. You need to attract visitors who will value your content.

By: Ian Stirling

Ian Stirling — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:23:05 +0000

I am not with the traffic or visitor. I am always with the customer who can be a visitor or traffic.

By: Count Sneaky

Count Sneaky — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:36:24 +0000

Why don’t more bloggers ask themselves this question…rather than how many followers I can get?…how much money can I make? Or, why didn’t someone say this before. Well, giant brains, you should have thought about this before you started your blog, “Read Me and Grow Rich” You should only blog if you respect your readers and can give them information, entertainment or a different slant on life. Excellent post.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:46:43 +0000

Interesting article… I would much rather like visitors than traffic.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:33:00 +0000

Great points. Visitors (people that are actually looking for your product or service) are certainly more important than traffic. Therefore, it’s important to make sure that your content is written for them. If it’s not, there won’t be a conversion, which is generally the point of a site anyway.

By: Stacey Morgan Smith

Stacey Morgan Smith — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:44:17 +0000

onreact, I have to keep myself from spending hours diving into every little GA metric, but in general, I want visitors who convert!

I monitor time on site, and I value the metric, but I also think that searchers are better in general at picking out the information they need. They scan and quickly decide if they want to move on or do nothing else (I also monitor bounce rate). So while I love to searchers spend a minute each reading a page because I spent so much time writing it, I’m happier if the searchers got the information they wanted and converted.

Goal tracking is my most important metric. If we set up the goals and we see that they fill out the forms, request the white paper, or click to contact, we’re getting the result we most want.

By: Dennis Bartram

Dennis Bartram — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:34:41 +0000

I agree that stumbleupon does deliver more traffic to a site compared to facebook, but traffic coming from both social channels do have low conversions.

As to the point given, I personally target a specific traffic, so I guess I’m aiming for “visitors”, since I want activity than just a lone traffic clicking on ads.

By: onreact

onreact — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:16:44 +0000

Dennis: How long did they stay? How many left instantly? Number of pageviews per visitor?
Even in case SU gets the category right, the traffic is far less targeted than we would like it to be.

By: Dennis G

Dennis G — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:57:16 +0000

Although in my case study on StumbleUpon traffic I talk only about the traffic and visitors coming from StumbleUpon on the Motors articles, the objective of the campaign was not merely to get traffic.
The launch of this motors blog for Car enthusiasts needed an extra boost within that community.
StumbleUpon is a great tool to get certain content under the eyes of the people who really care. As Stumblers set up their personal preferences, only those who are interested in cars will get to the content.
Highly targeted to make them aware of new interesting content.

Thanks for the follow up post.