{"id":323,"date":"2013-08-16T20:19:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2013-08-16T20:19:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T20:19:32","slug":"does-facebook-drive-traffic-from-google-to-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/does-facebook-drive-traffic-from-google-to-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Facebook drive traffic from Google to websites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The bottomline is not really. Less than 5% of visitors to websites come from Facebook. The &#8220;referral traffic&#8221; we see in most of our clients Google Analytics accounts is less than 3%. Website owners and online marketers need to be aware that Facebook is not Google. It is a conversation\/sharing platform. Google drives qualified intent based visitors to your website who are searching for a specific product or service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As travel is a fantastic proxy for general Internet trends, the below inforgraphic shows that on average 4% of visitors to travel websites come from a social network like Facebook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ustravelerssocialmedia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-324\" alt=\"ustravelerssocialmedia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ustravelerssocialmedia.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"1318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ustravelerssocialmedia.png 600w, https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ustravelerssocialmedia-136x300.png 136w, https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ustravelerssocialmedia-466x1024.png 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bottomline is not really. Less than 5% of visitors to websites come from Facebook. The &#8220;referral traffic&#8221; we see in most of our clients Google Analytics accounts is less than 3%. Website owners and online marketers need to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/does-facebook-drive-traffic-from-google-to-websites\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}