Adsense Traffic

Where do you get yours from?

[newborn]

Hey guys,

I just got hit with the Mayday Update. Most sites lost a lot of traffic. I wanted to ask apart from Google, Bing and Yahoo. Where do you get traffic from for your websites.

Does anyone use PPC like Ask, Look Smart and others?

Is this frowned on by Google and does it really make sense to do?

[purplecape]

About 25% of my traffic is direct or from referring sites. The rest is SEs. If I lost the SE traffic, I guess I'd be in your shoes.

I don't see the point in doing PPC, but others may disagree.

[newborn]

Yeah but what about like CPV or traffic from Ask.Com or Kontera does this show up as a referral or as human visitor to stats?

[wyweb]

Pretty much the same as purplecape with regard to distribution. If I lose the search traffic I'll be looking for a real job.

And Mayday hit me pretty hard. I've lost traffic and I've lost the sales that go with that traffic. I can survive it though. It just means I'll need to tighten up a little bit. It's also served as incentive to put a few projects I've had on hold on the front burners now. Something I've been meaning to do anyway.

[wyweb]

Yeah but what about like CPV or traffic from Ask.Com or Kontera does this show up as a referral or as human visitor to stats?

Show up where? To Google? If you're asking if the gorg can detect the nature of this traffic, the answer is yes. They can tell you what Kontera referrers had for lunch that day, what kind of car they drive, the name of their oldest child, etc...

Referral or human visitor?

[dibbern2]

Most sites lost a lot of traffic

Think about the non-logic of that statement.

[Lame_Wolf]

What is "Adsense Traffic" ?

[HuskyPup]

Think about the non-logic of that statement.

I assume newborn meant his/her sites?

[Jane_Doe]

Think about the non-logic of that statement.

He probably does mean his sites, and even if he doesn't he is coming here for help, not mean spirited comments.

[Elsmarc]

Sometimes 'Tough Love' is needed...

[newborn]

Right so I did mean my sites....but seriously is 80% traffic from SE's for most adsense gurus like dibbern2 here?

My key thought is what about sites that don't even bother with text - and really focus on say images. They place adsense at the footer of the images and because of this they wont get that much traffic from long tail keywords as they just use images and a page title.

Now they might get thousands of visitors from paid ads on Facebook, MySpace etc daily but just not from the normal SE's does google see that as "bad".

And will they close your account.... thats the question?

[ken_b]

newborn; Historically, I found that the issue around image pages could be pretty easily solved by using a modestly expanded "caption", although tht seems to be getting a bit less effective as time goes on, at least in my experience. By "modestly expanded" I mean cations or on page descriptions that run somewhere from 50 - 150 words. Usually not too hard to come up with a few words about a photo. I'll grant that this tactic might work better or not depending on the subject of the photos and the webmasters knowledge of the topic.

As far as other traffic sources beyond search engines, there is always direct (bookmarks, etc) traffic and referral traffic.

I'd be hurting big time IF I lost ALL search engine traffic. But how likely is that? Loosing ALL traffic from ALL 3 major search engines at once doesn't seem likely. If I only lost all my traffic from Google, I could survive.

BUT, I also have thought about this a lot, and have a sort of back-up plan in reserve that involves a direct snail mail campaign. I have accumulated a rather large list of offline contact info over the years, and if I have to, I can put that into play. (I have had some success in direct (snail) mail marketing in the past in other ventures.)

[Lame_Wolf]

My key thought is what about sites that don't even bother with text - and really focus on say images. They place adsense at the footer of the images and because of this they wont get that much traffic from long tail keywords as they just use images and a page title.

Could be seen as no content.
Also, do they own the images [or hotlinked] ?
If not, then they could be breaking the TOS.

Two possible reasons to see the account closed.

[HuskyPup]

My key thought is what about sites that don't even bother with text - and really focus on say images. They place adsense at the footer of the images and because of this they wont get that much traffic from long tail keywords as they just use images and a page title.

My trade widget directory site's traffic is 50% information 50% quality reference images. Titlebars and on-page details are targetted specifically for those images. 75% of those images are served using a Coppermine gallery.

My main B&M site plus all the geo-targetted country-specific domains are 95% quality reference images with in-depth trade information concerning those products...obviously this is also of value to Joe Public retail purchaser as well as to trade and project specifiers.

100% of these images are served from hand-built and optimised pages.

Also, do they own the images [or hotlinked] ?

In my case yes and all are hotlink protected and I do promote trade visitors to copy and use my images on their sites rather than using very badly scanned and optimised ones.

Obviously I'm writing about millions of image views per annum with 90+% new traffic from organic SERPs. I do have a trade e-mail list of some 26,000+ subscribers to use when I have any special offers/news/etc.