Case Study: ProgrammingZen.com’s Referral Traffic
In order to provide you with a more realistic idea of how much all these social media sites respectively contribute to a blog about programming, I have included the top ten referral traffic sources over the past year for my own programming blog.
The percentages are based on the total referral traffic only (i.e., link traffic), and not on organic traffic or other sources.
| Rank | Referral Site | Percentage (%) |
|---|---|---|
1 | 49.29 | |
2 | Hacker News | 10.79 |
3 | Slashdot | 6.83 |
4 | DZone | 2.73 |
5 | StumbleUpon | 2.57 |
6 | RubyFlow | 1.79 |
7 | 1.74 | |
8 | 1.46 | |
9 | StackOverflow | 0.60 |
10 | Delicious | 0.25 |
As you may recall, the referral traffic distribution here is quite different from that outlined for Math-Blog.com in Chapter 5, Creating Remarkable Content ...
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