How To Report Organic Search Traffic Gains After Filtering

What is the meaning of "organic traffic" on the Internet? What other types of traffic are there? And what are the differences between them?

Organic traffic generally refers to non-paid traffic, so includes traffic from:Search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.Referral traffic from other sites - visitors arriving at your site after clicking on a link on another website.Direct traffic - someone typing in your URL into a browser.Such traffic is all achieved organically, rather than through a source of advertising or paid promotion of some kind.On the other hand…Paid traffic is where you are spending money to attract those visitors to your website. This might include:Using paid listings on search engines.Paying to promote your content/link on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and give it a much wider audience.Showing ads on other sites around the net, usually using an ad network like Google’s Display Ads within Adwords.Visitors arriving at your site because of an affiliate program you run, i.e. incentivizing others to link through to your site in return for monetary compensation of some kind, usually either on a sale or some other user action after they arrive.