Hey Email Spammer – Google Search Drives a Lot of Traffic

Love these email solicitations I receive. Just don’t listen to them or check out the facts. Here’s one from this morning:

It’s a fact:  more people find out about your business on Facebook or Twitter than on search engines.  Making these sites work maybe tricky for you, but it’s business as usual for us.  Let us improve your visibility and enhance your image.  It’s part of our complete  Internet Marketing package.  We’ll be more than your friends — we’ll be your partners.

Sent from a gmail account of course! See my previous post.

Here are the statistics on a couple of accounts I manage that are well positioned on Facebook and Twitter.

E commerce Site:

• 60% of traffic comes from Google
• <2% of all traffic to the site comes from Facebook and Twitter

Law Site:

• 50% of traffic comes from Google
• 5% from Facebook

What this tells me is that I need to build up more traffic from other sources but for now Google is the big dog when it comes to site traffic. We are constantly working on building our Facebook, and other social media, presence. It’s a good idea! But, it is not where the bulk of your site traffic will come from today.