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Originally Posted by vinnie I don't think it matters where your visitors come from as long as you're getting the right kind of visitors. If you have an e-commerce site and get tons of paying customers via external links, does it matter if they come from a search engine or somebody else's site?
edit: Also remember that links from other sites increase your search engine popularity, and visitors coming to your site from a search engine and having a positive experience are more likely to link back to your site. Think of search engines vs. links as a symbiotic relationship, not an adversarial one. |
Exactly. Every link that points to your sites is a good thing on more then one level.
Every webmaster's plan should be to drive targetted traffic to their website. Whether it comes from a search engine, link on another site, newspaper ad, radio ad, The Force, it doesn't matter. If that visitor comes to your site with certain expectations and you meet them (because you've targetted them) you've just made a customer.