{"id":377,"date":"2013-07-16T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T08:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2013-07-16T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T08:44:26","slug":"search-still-top-for-website-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/search-still-top-for-website-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Search still top for Website Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by Forrester Research shows some very valuable and interesting information for website owners. Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/marketingland.com\/search-remains-first-social-second-for-how-people-find-websites-49394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/marketingland.com\/search-remains-first-social-second-for-how-people-find-websites-49394<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. 54% of survey responders find websites through natural search engine results pages (organic\/free results) This represents an increase from 50% in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>2. Social Networks were the second most popular resource, accounting for 32%; up from 25% in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>3. Links were the next important means of finding websites, accounting for 28%; down from 31% last year.<\/p>\n<p>4. 18% surveyed said they used search ads to find websites, which is significantly up from 8% in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So what information and intelligence can you take from the above data?<\/p>\n<p>1. Search Engines are still the main players in how people find websites.<\/p>\n<p>2. A good social marketing strategy can add excellent results to your overall online marketing strategy.<\/p>\n<p>3. Good quality links generate good quality traffic back to your website.<\/p>\n<p>4. Online searchers attitudes to online advertising is improving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All very interesting, I am sure you will agree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by Forrester Research shows some very valuable and interesting information for website owners. Source: http:\/\/marketingland.com\/search-remains-first-social-second-for-how-people-find-websites-49394 1. 54% of survey responders find websites through natural search engine results pages (organic\/free results) This represents an increase from 50% in 2011. 2. Social Networks were the second most popular resource, accounting for 32%; up from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seocornwall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}