What is referral traffic?

[Adney]

What is referral traffic?

 

[RH-Calvin]

Referral traffic is defined to the traffic that is generated using referral links by other members of the website. These referral traffic helps to increase page views and leads for your business.

 

[jackar56]

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.