Life in Action

Is there any way for us to know where our traffic coming from? All I know, if we can determine where the traffic is coming from, we can also make a guide or table of traffic source for us how to improve our website. Basically, there are 3 kinds of traffic source and these are Direct Traffic, Referring Sites and Search Engines.

What are these? it’s simple. Direct traffic means that these are the traffic that directly came to your. Referring sites on the other hand, are traffic that came from other websites that has a link going to your site. Search engine traffic, my favorite traffic source. It is a traffic that came from different search engines from example in my case, I have 9 source of traffic that came from search engines like google, yahoo, live, msn, search, aol, cnn, kvasir and netscape. Cool, isn’t it?! If you want to know how to improve you search engine rankings better read SEO for Beginners.

Here is a screen shot from my Google Analytics account:

From there, I can monitor where my traffic is coming from. Try Google analytics now and have your own statistics and evaluation of your traffic. How to know your traffic? My always answer is Google Analytics knows. Enjoy!