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5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic

Adam Sherk

Reach out – You’ve been meaning to get more involved in brand and content awareness building activities such as social media marketing; now’s the time. There are lots of good approaches to “link bait” – find the topics and hooks that work for you. Special promotions like contests and giveaways can also be effective.

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Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and.

Adam Sherk

Most organizations prefer to keep their figures private so I’m not able to share the actual sites but they are all well-known brands. Well-established brands still get a large portion of their traffic via direct navigation. I looked at referral data for 2008, 2009 and 2010 to-date and for comparison also included Facebook and Digg.

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