Viral traffiic!

[prasanth5]

If the visitors link your site to other sites on their own do you call them viral traffic?  If not what can you call them?

[coolman]

The term "viral traffic" is often used when content is shared rapidly and extensively from person to person on the internet, much like how a virus spreads. If visitors are linking to your website from their own websites or sharing it on their social media, that can contribute to viral spreading if it's happening on a large scale and very quickly. However, whether it's considered "viral" often depends on the volume and velocity of the sharing.

The term "backlinks" is used to describe links from other websites that point to your site. Backlinks are important for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) because they signal to search engines that others vouch for your content. If many sites link to the same webpage or website, search engines can interpret that content is worth linking to, and therefore also worth surfacing on a search engine result page.

If your audience is sharing your website across their networks voluntarily, this can be referred to as "organic sharing" or "organic traffic". This implies that your content is compelling enough that visitors share it without any prompting or incentivization by you.

In conclusion, if the scale and speed of the sharing are substantial, you can theoretically call it "viral traffic". But in standard SEO and digital marketing language, these would be called backlinks or organic traffic, depending on the context.

In addition to the description of the "backlinks" and "organic traffic," there are other terms that might be useful:

Word-of-Mouth Marketing (WOMM): When visitors link your site to other sites on their own—effectively recommending you—it's a special type of promotion called word-of-mouth marketing. This means people are discussing your website organically, unprompted by you.

Referral Traffic: Referral traffic is Google's method of reporting visits that came to your site from sources outside of its search engine. This is when someone clicks on a hyperlink to go to a new page on a different website.

Social Media Traffic: When links to your site are shared on social media and people click on them, this could be considered as a separate type of traffic, which you could call social media traffic.

User-Generated Content (UGC): When users link to your site, they create user-generated content on the platform they share it on. For instance, the users could be creating a post about your site on a forum, blog, social media, etc.

Few more considerations:

Inbound Links: This term is often used interchangeably with backlinks, but they both mean incoming links to a webpage. When a webpage links to any other page, it's called a backlink or an inbound link. Having a good number of quality inbound links is an essential part of search engine optimization (SEO), and it could also increase your site's visibility and reputation.

Link Earning: When your content is so good that people naturally want to link to it without you asking, this is often referred to as "link earning". Link earning relies heavily on creating high-quality content that adds value for users.

Link Building: This is the process of getting other websites to link back to your website. It's a tactic often used in SEO because Google and other search engines use backlinks as an indicator of the quality of content. Great content tends to attract backlinks.

Anchor Text: This is the clickable text in a hyperlink that users click to reach your website. SEO best practices dictate that anchor text be relevant to the page you're linking to, rather than generic text.

Traffic Acquisition: This refers to the various ways in which digital marketers bring visitors to a website. It could be achieved through various means - organic, direct, referral, email, paid, social media, etc.

In general, all these tactics and aspects are part of a broader digital marketing strategy aiming to increase your site's visibility, improve your SEO, and attract more visitors, while also providing valuable and relevant content for your audience. These efforts could, under the right conditions, lead to viral traffic, but even without going viral, they're still beneficial for the health and growth of your site.

[joeemslie]

Would call them traffic if im honest.

My definition of viral traffic would be something like banging a "sеxy" video on youtube, getting thousands and thousands of views, and putting your websites link on the video and in the description, this will gain you a huge amount of traffic in a short period of time, and this is what I would class as "viral traffic"