Comments on: The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

By: SEO Guy

SEO Guy — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:36:18 +0000

Personally my CTR for ads is bad on all traffic generated by social media sites, although long-term I notice it does build links to good quality content.

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By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:34:42 +0000

Well said! You have excellent writing skills! Bookmarked!

By: Tom Lindstrom

Tom Lindstrom — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:24:47 +0000

Excellent post.With so many social news sites to choose from I would go with the niche sites.The traffic you get will be more targeted that way.

By: Shopping Cart

Shopping Cart — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:31:19 +0000

Very nice post.

By: martha

martha — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:34:00 +0000

Sphinn really drives great traffic…
Nice post Tamar…

I have a site ownmine.com but the social media thing is not working properly in this case, the only traffic I get is from the search engine or direct visitors…

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:08:37 +0000

Much better to be a general site, but that means you have to be early and establish the category. If you’re late and someone else has already captured the general audience, then it’s best to be focusing on a niche strategy. That’ the way we see it from the venture capital investor’s standpoint.

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By: Steve C @ MyWifeQuitHerJob.com

Steve C @ MyWifeQuitHerJob.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:04:36 +0000

I think there are way too many variables here to come to a conclusion. We would need a test where identical articles are stumbled and sphinned and see the stats that way. Nonetheless, this post was very useful and thanks for taking the time to aggregate the data.

By: ErikJ

ErikJ — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:48:39 +0000

As with any debate the word “depends” always comes up since each persons traffic is of different value to that individual person. So for a person marketing a site that has a braod niche social would be better but if a very closed narrow niche then The Mighty Engine will prevail

so I guess “It depends”