‘Referral Traffic’ is the technical name for links to your site. A referral is when someone on another website clicks on a hyperlink to your website and lands on one of your webpages. Links have formed the basis for determining “trust” on the internet for much of its existence. It was, in part, Google’s use […]
How to Get Direct Visits to Your Website
There are are essentially five ways someone can come to your website: Directly Through a link (known as a referral) Through a search engine such as Google or Bing Through the ads you see on the internet (known as pay-per-click ads) Through social media. Direct visits are when the user enters the url of one […]
How Do People Find My Website?
There was a time when all you had to do was put up a webpage on the internet and people would find it. However, that time is long past. As in, decades past. Then time when you can get people to come to your website without doing anything is over. In 2018, you need to […]
Who Visits My Site? Website Traffic
Every single time a computer visits your site, that visit is tracked in your site logs. But site logs are awful to look at; the log is a list of IP addresses and, if you have a busy site, that list can be incredibly long. So your logs are painful to read but they also […]