Ever wonder where all the traffic to your job postings comes from?

On the heals of last week’s piece on The 5 Things Everyone Should Know About SEO in Job Descriptions, Ongig took a look at our last 100,000 visits to the “social job descriptions” we help power for our employer users (and thus have visibility into via analytics).

A breakdown of the sources of traffic to job descriptions created through Ongig.com

Given that Ongig specializes in “social job descriptions,” the results surprised us!

First, a couple of non-surprises:

Ongig.com — The largest source is “direct” traffic to our own site, Ongig, which is no big surprise (the top source of traffic for most Web sites is from internal links of its own site).

Employer Career Page — The second largest source of traffic is our own employers’ careers page. Again, no surprise here: many of these employers show a thumbnail embed of their job description on their own Web site (such as the one salesforce.com has pointing to Ongig below) or link to their jobs that are listed on Ongig.

The surprise came next.

Google Search Beats Facebook and Twitter

Google Search is the next largest source of traffic to job descriptions — and (at 17%) it beats Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn combined (which totaled 14%).

Despite the massive traffic of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, job candidates still appear to rely on Google when searching/evaluating job opportunities. Check out the types of job searches candidates made that resulted in them landing on a job description:

• New Company Searches — e.g. “gokrt” and “hirevue”
• Title Specific Searches — e.g. “customer centric engineering salesforce”
• Team-Specific Searches — e.g. “Aparna Ramani” or “Angela Meyer Zaarly” or “Phil Cullen Calypso” or “twitter tnternationalization team”
• Interview Phase Searches — e.g. “klout full-time interview” or “memsql interview questions”
• Compensation Searches — e.g. “travel account executive groupon salary” or “commission zerocater”