What is referral traffic?

What is referral traffic?

referral traffic refers to the traffic are coming from others website.

Thanks zorbee. Does social media also come in referral traffic?

Whether you're running a blog or a commercial site, you've probably often heard the term "referral traffic" thrown around as something that can boost your visitors or sales. Referral traffic is not easy to obtain, but if you can get it, it can help you reach your readership or sales goals. You should know a few things about referral traffic if you want to increase the number of visitors to your website, blog or online store.

website traffic coming from article, guest post, directory, blogging and other off page activities sites

Referral traffic is Google's method of reporting visits that came to your site from sources outside of its search engine. When someone clicks on a hyperlink to go to a new page on a different website, Analytics tracks the click as a referral visit to the second site.

referral traffic is generated from off page techniques

Yes Social media also part of referral traffic

Earmold Sydney wrote:Thanks zorbee. Does social media also come in referral traffic?

Referral traffic is Google's method of reporting visits that came to your site from sources outside of its search engine. When someone clicks on a hyperlink to go to a new page on a different website, Analytics tracks the click as a referral visit to the second site.

Thank you!

if you generate traffic from off page techniques that is called referral traffic

It is the ratio of number of referring pages that have the hyper text which is redirecting towards your website ...