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Want More Referral Traffic? Don’t Overlook These Generous Sites  

Content Marketing Institute

A new study reveals which sites send generous referral traffic (and which don’t). Here’s how to grab your share of referrals from non-Google sources. Google tops the list, but don’t overlook other search engines and social sites where you might face less competition.

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Google: Referral Traffic Doesn’t Increase Link Equity via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

When Google evaluates how much weight to assign to backlinks it doesn’t consider factors such as referral traffic or whether the link gets clicked on. The post Google: Referral Traffic Doesn’t Increase Link Equity appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Top ten external traffic referral sources of October 2018

Parse.ly

Here’s your quick traffic recap based on network data for October 2018. October 2018: Top ten external traffic referral sources. There was no change in the order of the top ten referrers from September 2018 to October 2018. Top ten external referrers across all traffic to Parse.ly’s network, October 2018.

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Discover.google.com gone as a referring URL in latest referral traffic trends

Parse.ly

Traffic trends in December 2018: Farewell discover.google.com, we hardly knew thee. We’ll say this for traffic trends at the end of 2018 – they were consistent. In past years, month to month would often show fluctuations in traffic sources that billions of online readers used to find articles or videos on media and content sites.

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Outsized influence: the size of social media platforms has little to do with their referral traffic

Parse.ly

Let’s compare the size of each platform’s user base in monthly active users (MAUs) with the average monthly referral traffic it sent to Parse.ly’s network in 2019. The opposite of this is unidentifiable social traffic, or dark social. That’s how little traffic actually comes from YouTube.).

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What The Decline of Social Media Means For Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

That’s right – we’re first hand witnesses to the decline of social media as the go-to source for driving web traffic. The way people engage with these platforms is changing, and it’s reshaping how they interact with content outside of these social bubbles, particularly in driving traffic to external sites.

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Are mobile news aggregators on the rise as referral traffic sources?

Parse.ly

Often top referrers to articles in our network include a mix of the usual suspects: Google search, Google News, Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard, Drudge Report. But one day at the beginning of October I was looking at a story in Currents and noticed another referrer in the mix: SmartNews. SmartNews revs up traffic.