====== Traffic ======

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===== Definition =====

**Traffic** refers to the data exchange in a computer network. In [[SEO]] it refers to the number of visits a [[website]] receives.

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===== Importance for SEO =====

The overall traffic of a website includes visitors from search engines as well as visitors that get on the website through other [[backlink|backlinks]].

The number of visits and visitors can be tracked and is valuable information for webmasters to see how interesting or popular a website is.