{"id":6013,"date":"2012-05-09T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=6013"},"modified":"2014-07-25T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:37:23","slug":"april-2012-traffic-sources-report-pinterest-continues-to-fall-behind-bing-gains-market-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/april-2012-traffic-sources-report-pinterest-continues-to-fall-behind-bing-gains-market-share\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2012 Traffic Sources Report: Pinterest Continues to Fall Behind, Bing Gains Market Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shareaholic-logo-250.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5868\" title=\"shareaholic logo 250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shareaholic-logo-250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Have a blog? Drive more traffic and shares to your content with <a title=\"Shareaholic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/publishers\/sharing?utm_campaign=Shareaholic_Blog&amp;utm_source=Blog_CTA&amp;utm_medium=Top_CTA&amp;utm_content=April_2012_Traffic_Report\" target=\"_blank\">Shareaholic&#8217;s social sharing buttons<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Happy May, fellow bloggers. It&#8217;s time again to crack open our <a title=\"Blog analytics\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/publishers\/analytics\/blog.shareaholic.com\/30#traffic\" target=\"_blank\">analytics<\/a> and take a peak at where our traffic is coming from and see how we can optimize our content creation and promotion from those channels. Let&#8217;s hop to it!<\/p>\n<p>Each month we look at trends based on Shareaholic&#8217;s global publisher network of more than 200,000 publishers who reach more than 270 million people each month. Here&#8217;s the most recent breakdown of the top traffic sources for those sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/April-2012-Shareaholic-Traffic-Report.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6014\" title=\"April 2012 Shareaholic Traffic Report\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/April-2012-Shareaholic-Traffic-Report.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/April-2012-Shareaholic-Traffic-Report.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/April-2012-Shareaholic-Traffic-Report-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/April-2012-Shareaholic-Traffic-Report-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/April-2012-Shareaholic-Traffic-Report-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some things you may want to note about our results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pinterest has been particularly interesting to watch. In February we reported that it <a title=\"Pinterest referral traffic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/pinterest-referral-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\">referred more traffic than LinkedIn, YouTube and Google+ combined<\/a>. In February, it <a title=\"Pinterest and Twitter referral traffic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/pinterest-referral-traffic-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">surpassed Twitter for referral traffic<\/a>. Last month, we noticed Pinterest <a title=\"Pinterest Twitter referral traffic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/is-pinterests-growth-slowing-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">began to fall behind Twitter<\/a> a little bit, and it appears that it has begun to fall behind once again.<\/li>\n<li>For the third month in a row, Bing grew in market share, narrowing the gap between it and Yahoo. This comes in conjunction with its Google-y redesign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bing-Redesign.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6069\" title=\"Bing Redesign\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bing-Redesign.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bing-Redesign.png 973w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bing-Redesign-502x400.png 502w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bing-Redesign-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bing-Redesign-768x613.png 768w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Bing-Redesign-376x300.png 376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That said, both Yahoo and Bing are still a very distant second and third compared to Google, but we&#8217;ll continue to track this trend and keep you in the loop on our findings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>StumbleUpon picked up some growth in share of traffic again this month. Like <a title=\"StumbleUpon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/reddit-stumbleupon-digg-delicious-drive-blog-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;ve said before<\/a>, sites such as StumbleUpon, Reddit or Digg can be significant traffic drivers for publishers. But because they lack the shiny new object quality, they seem to be overlooked.<em>What trends did you seen in your analytics this month? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Curious about\u00a0the latest updates on these numbers? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/category\/shareaholic-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\">See our most recent reports<\/a>. Have questions about this or any of our other Shareaholic Reports? Email <a href=\"mailto:press@shareaholic.com\">press@shareaholic.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a blog? Drive more traffic and shares to your content with Shareaholic&#8217;s social sharing buttons. Happy May, fellow bloggers. It&#8217;s time again to crack&hellip;&nbsp;<br \/><a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/april-2012-traffic-sources-report-pinterest-continues-to-fall-behind-bing-gains-market-share\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[354,545],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}