What is referral traffic?

[Jasminecynthia]

Referral traffic is Google's strategy for announcing visits that went to your site from sources outside of its web crawler. When somebody taps on a hyperlink to go to another page on an alternate site, Analytics tracks the snap as a referral visit to the second site.

[jerryperes]

What is referral traffic?

Referral traffic is the google method of reporting visits that came to your website from source outside of its search engine. When someone clicks on your hyperlink to go to a new page on a different website, analytics track the click as a referral visit to second site.

[Nirala]

As the name suggests referral means that is referred. It can come from Forum Signatures, Social Media, Director Sites, SBM sites, Backlinks you created, From Classifieds, Local listing etc but not directly come from the Search Engines,

[paulbrighton]

Referral traffic is Google's method of reporting visits that came to your site from sources outside of its search engine. When someone clicks on a hyperlink to go to a new page on a different website, Analytics tracks the click as a referral visit to the second site.

[dombowkett]

Traffic from any third party SEO resources, known as referral traffic.