This image here is probably the most accurate depiction of what Twitter does in terms of your traffic generation strategy.
A “rocket” effect.
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For the Comments:
How have you seen Twitter impact your traffic? Has this been good for you? What’s your take on Twitter as a traffic generation strategy?
Twitter definitely generates traffic like nothing else. Especially if you couple a link with a decent description. RT’s work wonders, too.
The thing is, it takes work. You gotta stay on top of tweeting your stuff. Don’t expect people to subscribe. If you end up tweeting links, people are likely just to expect you to do that.
that’s true. it does takea lot of work… and coordination.
Twitter does generate traffic, but I’m surprised to see how much more Facebook generates for me.
Facebook generates nil for me. I don’t even use it for linking to the site.
i’m goign to have to look at my FB stats. i’m pretty sure it sucks.
So…you don’t link from Facebook because it doesn’t generate traffic or the other way around?
really? hm.
I wish I knew why, but FB has always been good to me.
hmmm, only if other people share your link. No one trusts self propagation. In the last month I have had 28 visits from twitter (according to google). No only do I hang my head in shame but I throw the chairs out of the window.
So more me it does not really provide much traffic.
StumleUpon leads the list for me, but I tried an ad campaign with them – which gave me a lots of hits for a brief time and an acceleration of my bounce rate.
SU, really?
Twitter has been a HUGE traffic generator for me. It has been an awesome way to get my posts before more people and an awesome way to meet fellow bloggers.
word up.
If you have an active Facebook Fan page for a non-tech area like a church, Facebook can drive a lot more traffic than Twitter. However, a benefit of sharing links on Twitter is that Facebook is often blocked by schools and offices while Twitter isn’t.
For Stumble Upon, see blogger Tim Ferriss: “StumbleUpon has jumped to almost 10% of my total traffic per week” http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/06/09/stumble-upon-supr/
yeah, i used that for a while. tim’s blog post helped me a lot!
Twitter’s good, but one time I bought 100,000 email addresses from a guy on the phone and that generated a TON of traffic. Had a weird side effect though, all the comments were really mean that day. Go figure…
(totally j/k)
Facebook also generates significantly more traffic for me.
I only have about 200 twitter followers but around 800 facebook friends. So I should have about 4 times as much traffic from facebook, but in reality facebook refers about 5 times as much traffic.
I’m in Australia tho and Twitter isn’t really big here at all.
interesting! really. you should start a movement.