SourceForge Traffic
SourceForge gets nearly 20 million visitors per month looking for software.
Once these potential buyers are on SourceForge's website, vendors upgraded listings get prioritized heavily on all pages relevant to their software including software category pages, comparison pages, alternatives pages, competitor pages, and integrations pages. Interested in a free SourceForge Demo? Learn more.
This guide will describe how B2B software vendors get exposure on SourceForge.
SourceForge gets more website traffic than every other major B2B software comparison website, and in many cases, more traffic than every other B2B software comparison website combined. SourceForge is the largest software comparison and software review website in the world by traffic. SourceForge gets many millions of B2B shoppers per month looking for B2B and commercial software across SourceForge's 4000+ business software categories, millions of software comparison pages, and SourceForge's extensive B2B software research and millions of software user ratings.
SourceForge's traffic source profile is very unique in that:
- Nearly a third of SourceForge's traffic comes from direct visitors. Just like someone might bypass search engines altogether and go directly to "amazon.com" to make a purchase, millions of people per month type "sourceforge.net" directly into their web browser to use SourceForge to find software.
- Another third of SourceForge's traffic comes from referring websites. Because SourceForge has been the leading authority on software for decades, hundreds of thousands of websites, blogs, software resources, news publications, and comparison directories link to SourceForge and drive in-market software buyers to SourceForge.
- While SourceForge gets millions of visitors per month from search engines, search engines make up less than a third of SourceForge traffic.
- 100% of SourceForge traffic is organic and SourceForge does not buy any paid traffic.
- Nearly 84% of SourceForge traffic is desktop traffic. According to Smart Insights, desktop users are 1.7 times more likely to convert than mobile users.
For a vendor's software product, being listed in a category is just one portion of the huge amount of exposure that their product listing will get on SourceForge.
If you're a vendor that upgrades your SourceForge software listing, then your SourceForge software listing will not only be featured at or near the top of your categories, but you'll also be featured on every relevant competitor listing, every relevant related software product listing, every relevant "Alternatives" page, every relevant "Comparison" page, and every relevant "Integrations" page.
In general, upgraded software listings will be promoted on every relevant page where in-market software buyers may be looking for a solution like yours. So not only will your listing just show up in your category, but your listing will be shown on potentially hundreds or thousands of other types of pages.
Here are examples of each type of page that vendors will have their software promoted on to in-market software buyers:
Vendors that upgrade their SourceForge software listing are featured at or near the top of their categories in the default sort.
So in this example, if your software is is in the CRM Software category, then your software product would be promoted at or near the top of the CRM Software category.
If you're a vendor that upgrades your SourceForge software listing, then your product is featured in the "Popular Alternatives & Related Software" sections on all of their competitors' pages as well as other non-upgraded software listing pages that share the same categories and function.
So in this example, if your software is a competitor to Salesforce, then your software product would be promoted on Salesforce's listing.
Your software product will also be promoted on hundreds of other software listings including your competitors, other software listings in your category, and related software in general.
If you're a vendor that upgrades your SourceForge software listing, then your product is featured on your competitors' "Alternatives" pages, as well as the "Alternatives" page of any other software that can be considered an alternative to your software.
So in this example, if your software is an alternative to Salesforce, then your SourceForge listing will rank at or near the top of the Salesforce Alternatives page and will display a CTA (call-to-action) button that links directly to your website.
Your software product will also be promoted on hundreds of other "Alternatives" pages including your competitors, other software listings in your category, and related software in general.
If you're a vendor that upgrades your SourceForge software listing, then your product is featured on comparison pages. So if a potential software buyer is viewing a page like "Your Software vs Another Software Product", your software listing will display a CTA (call-to-action) button that links directly to your website.
Nearly a third of all of SourceForge's B2B buyer traffic comes through SourceForge comparison pages.
If two or three of your competitors are being compared, then your software listing will also be promoted alongside them, even if your listing isn't the one being directly compared.
If you're a vendor that upgrades your SourceForge software listing, then your product is featured on the "Integrations" pages of all software listings that your software product integrates with.
So in this example, if your software integrates with Salesforce, then your SourceForge listing will rank at or near the top of the Salesforce Integrations page and will display a CTA (call-to-action) button that links directly to your website.
SourceForge gets more traffic than G2, Capterra, and TrustRadius, combined.
Not only does SourceForge get more traffic than every other B2B software comparison website, SourceForge also has the highest visit duration, pages per visit, page views, and the lowest bounce rate.
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