What is referral traffic?
 

What is referral traffic?

An SEO company needs to be explained the meaning of referral traffic?

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. The originating site is called a “referrer” because it refers traffic from one place to the next. Referral traffic is one of three statistics tracked by Google Analytics. The others are Search traffic -- visits from a search engine -- and Direct traffic to a domain.

when you get traffic from outside source is knows as referral traffic

As name implies, referral traffic is kind of traffic that comes from referral resources.

Traffic comes from external sources which called as a referral traffic.

For example, If you publish some content or visuals to external website like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram then user see your post there and click on links which redirect to source page (Your website's web page), So, that traffic called as Referral traffic.

You can get referral traffic from link building. You must certainly have Google Analytics account, from there you can recognize your referral traffic.
Link building strategies include
Blog commenting
Question & Answers
Guest Blog Posting
Directory submissions
etc…etc…etc…

Traffic drive through social networking, third party websites are known as referral SEO traffic.

when you get traffic from third party website.