google search vs facebook social traffic

If you have a humor/satire blog, you'll have to depend on social media traffic. People don't really search for humorous articles on Google. They have their own favorite humor website that they follow regularly. New readers mostly come from Social media when your content is shared by people.

Bottom line, improve your content to build a readership. I don't really see hope in relying on Google in your case.

Sairam, Narayanamurthi,

There are at least 100 groups with regard to Bank Employees only.  I had just joined 30 to 40 group's and analyse what's the current burning topic and also the requirement's of the employees, sit back do my research and publish my post.  Just posting list of Holidays of various State Governments has given me more than 40K views and more than 200 shares in FB.  I am not good in SEO, but as you have rightly pointed out for one search term " Tenth Bipartite Arrears Chart" ( For these charts I had  worked for One week 5 hours per day ) my blog post's are shown in first page of google search that too in first, second and third places.  

Rahman,

Yes, I want to get back to blogging. But I want to worder smarter instead of just harder :-) That was the reason of this exercise.

Sowani, Nagaraj

Wonderful metrics. I haven't found figured out a way to crack FB yet. Let's see...

Sairam, so you can try this idea too (including my answer).

95% of my traffic is from FB.  So far 340 K views ( 5-Month old Blog).   Share your post in a right group.

Hi, That's terrific. How do you do that. Do you use paid advertising in FB? Can you please guide me.

Nagaraj,

I checked your blog and you have got an amazing statistics. I see that your blog is an informational blog about banking. In my understanding, such blogs should benefit very well from Google traffic provided you have put some time on your blog. But you have cracked FB as source as well. So with some more time and effort, your Google traffic should kick in as well. Congrats and all the best for your blog.

So, your strategy for FB is to become member of 'Banking employees' group in FB and post it there, is it?

sounds like a good idea. Looks like I should find a niche in humour and try the same strategy.

Surprised by reading previous posts in this threads. As regards my blog is concerned I get almost 90% traffic from Facebook.

I used to get ~250 pageviews every day till an year back. But I have not been blogging for an year now and the views have fallen to 100.

But most of them are from Google with very poor conversion rate. Most of them stay on site for like 10 secs. I do not think Google is a good source for a personal/humor blog. That's my experience. But I just wanted to get a feel from the forum guys as well.

Sairam, your profile photo is very nice.

Try to post regularly (at least one) to get enough increasing traffic.

How many monthly visitors (sessions in Google Analytics) do you get per month? 

Percentages make sense only if visitors are > x.

I think Facebook is highly volatile. Since these days, Facebook is hell bent on making money from paid ads.Even pages with million likes are getting very low traffic. They are only showing those pages in user's feed whose content user likes regularly. 

From a user's prespective, that's a good thing. However, from a marketers views, it's something that makes one go mad.

90% is a cool stat. Howver, the question is - it is 90% of how much traffic?  It's good to get this amount of traffic from a  search engine. However, it is bad to ignore social media channels, though you are getting decent traffic from other sources. Social Media will give you repeated  visitors and would help you to build a readership.  Search Engines are highly volatile. Nobody knows what disaster next update of Google can bring. 

maybe, yes. If you have a facebook page that shares what you do on your blog, and that it is good enough you can get a good traffic since people coming from FB will have some idea about the topics they're going to find on your blog. As for traffic from google, it's something that google shows on random word searches as you've said. Expect people to run away because they didn't find something they weren't looking for.

Indeed Google is king . Social media websites are useless untill you have thousand of followers there .