If your analytics show you something like this, what is your next strategy?

[IKT]

What is your thought if your site's analytic is showing you something like that graph? is it "DAMN!!! it is not supposed to be like that, the X are supposed to be greater then Y by at least two or three" And what is your next strategy? is it "okay, i need to put on backburner for my link building kungfu now immidiately...." Please share your thought.. because i dont know if i should be happy or not looking at something like this showing up on my analytics... Please do share your opinion GoodBad.png

[EGOL]

What concerns you about the graphs?

I see rising traffic which is good.  I also see a site that is getting traffic from a diversity of sources.  I like that.

I cant' give any more detailed comments because I don't know anything about the site or about the pattern of the traffic.

[Thos003]

At first glance it looks great! But really hard to say without knowing your history further. Overall you have a very balanced traffic set with a 1/3rd split between all your traffic sources. it looks like you are climbing so I would continue to monitor positive or negative effects of link building. Direct traffic at a 3rd of traffic is very impressive and could denote a good following and good branding.

But really this is hard to diagnose without further info. How long does your search traffic stay on the site? What is the bounce rate of your referral sites?

[AaronSchinke]

Really need more info! Good trending though!

[Getz.pro]

I like the referrals and SE traffic, but I would ask what is the direct traffic? Seems to be quite of lot that have you memorized or bookmarked. If there is a good reason, such as this is a new site, then great. However, if this is a online retailer, my next step would be to look at those people who already know my URL and what are they doing, and is that what I want then to do, and if not why.

I might also look into the V dip to see what I did, or if this was just a Google hiccup spanning just a day or so in reporting.

I would also check the referrals to see what they are doing and if the referring link is not doing what I intended, then why. What were they looking for from the referring site that they did not find on this site? Was the bounce rate high or did they look over several pages and spend a good amount of time on the site.

There are a few other questions that could be extrapolated from this, but a broader look at what this graph was reporting on would be needed.

I hope that helps.

[IKT]

Because i am quite new with this, i dont know if i should be happy about those diversity source... I thought if my SEO was better, i could have easily gotten a lot higher Search Traffic (but it seems that my seo is lacking enough?)

I was wondering if there is any good guide how that traffic source be like? is it like Search : referrence : direct = 2 : 1 : 1? or is it 2 : 2 : 1?

The site in question is my company site http://ikt.co.id

EGOL, how about if we compare with the site you ussualy have? how is your percentage traffic source look like?

again i dont know if i should be happy about anything, because i am quite new... but if my hunch was right, those 1:1:1 on traffic source shows that my SEO is lacking?

[IKT]

Okay since everyone is asking for more data, here is the complete snapshot on my dashboard

please tell me what is bad from it, and what is good.. i need to improve my knowledge on this stuff

thanks a lot for your time

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[Getz.pro]

Bounce rate is really nice as is the time on site!!

[IKT]

oh one more thing... the SEARCH Traffic?

i think i have explanation for it... like today why with the traffic spike? because i have just implemented my new learnt technique on creating a good adwords (which keyword all range around quality 7 ~ 10) ... and it paid off (although i paid a lot of money for it ~25$ / day) ... damn it means.. the traffic that comes from search engine is almost non existance...x_x

sigh... it is because i need to wait a lil bit more for the advantages of those backlinks to be useful? or what? (how long does google usually take a backlink into account? 2 weeks?) , because its just been 10 days since i seo-ed the hell out of this site

[Getz.pro]

It depends on the site having the link and how deep the link is on the site. The more popular, the quicker the crawl rate and deep the crawl.

[MarieHaynes]

I don't have answers for you, but I wanted to tell you how much I love the design of your site!  Very cool.

My site's distribution is:

86% from search

8% from referring sites

5.5% from direct

But, every site is going to be different.  Mine is mostly an information site and I have thousands of pages, so it makes sense that I am going to have more visits from search.

[EGOL]

I have a large site that gets most of its traffic from search - about 60%.

Articles and other static content on the site get about 90% of their traffic from search.

However, a blog on the site gets almost all of its traffic from daily RSS and email distribution by Feedburner along with a lot of direct traffic.   There is also a lot of direct traffic to the homepage that clicks into the blog.

So, different parts of the site attract traffic from different audiences and I believe that both of them are successful.

[IKT]

WOW, that is one extremely SEO site you have there.... that is very nice , i wish that my site would have that kind of Search Percentage :((

still a lot to learn it seems... i am brb , i have to movie marathon the whole Pro Video for sure , there must be something that i am lacking as to why it caused my search : referral : direct = 1 : 1 : 1

PS : Thanks for the comment on the site, that is one of the way i used to get more traffic and back link (doing competition on thefwa.com , dopeawards.com , etc ) , and if i may say so those sources are currently my only high authority backlink source... this week i am going into article mode on some high authority site, such as the seomoz.org ( i am planning to post some extremely interesting article that shares some of the top secret of my own company to the public ), and posting a tutorial to activetuts.com .... if you have any other Great back link source, i am all ear xD

Thanks

[MarieHaynes]

Thanks!  But I personally wouldn't pay too much attention to where the percentages lay.  I would mostly be concerned about whether the numbers keep increasing in each category.

When I looked at your percentages, my first thought was, "Man!  I wish I could get as much direct traffic as she does!"  My thought was that if I am only getting 5% direct hits then my brand is not recognizable.

I just looked at my stats for direct visits over the last year and I can see that the general trend is upwards.  So, whether it's 5% or 50%, as long as it is going up then I am happy.

[KeriMorgret]

The downside to a high search percentage is that if the algo changes and the change isn't in your favor, you don't have anything to fall back on. The traffic sources for my model warship combat site are similar to yours Yumi -- about an equal mix of direct, referral, and search engines. It's a comfort to know that if something drastic changed with the search engines, I still have my referral and direct traffic.

[Thos003]

Seriously. That is pretty amazing. It looks like you have really captured your audience.

[APICDA]

I feel that your graphs look OK.  The trend is nice, there is traffic and its coming from a variety of sources.  I would gleen a bit more from the stats if I knew a bit more about your business and a relative timeline for which the data has been compiled.  I would not worry..........