2nd on Google but no traffic...?

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

Have you considered your page titles? Titles also have effect on visitors deciding on the web page to visit. Other web pages may be having catchy titles better than yours. Hence, they will always get the traffic. Compare your titles to those of others

[RR111]

I agree with steveniam... Check out how many sponsor ads above in your listing. this is really mater.

Originally Posted by steveniam

Since the traffic is about 50 per day, it would be difficult to get any traffic if there are sponsor ads above your fold.

One of my site was recently the number one position in one niche which has a search volume of 2,200 a day however my weblog show there are less than 100 visitors. Reason: there are 3 sponsor ads above my site.

[atrbiz]

If you have low search volume for that keyword and your on the second page. I'm not surprised that your not getting any traffic, you'll need to be on page 1 to get any traffic considering it has low search volume.

[gjedda63]

GKT has fooled me too, in the beginning of my IM startup. I never rely on those numbers when checking keywords. Only PPC shows the real potential of a keyword.

[lotre]

for every 100 visitors you get, if one buys that is a 15 CTR(click thorugh rate). the CTR you will get depends on what market you are in and lots of other factors, but you can only expect sales when you have had enough visitors to 'make a sale'. So if you ove only had 50 visits then dont expect any sales yet as ou ve not had enough people see your site.
A 1% minimum CTR is what you should expect -unless you are making a big profit each sale

[antonisid]

Originally Posted by Marketing Ignite

The google keyword tool does not tell you the whole truth. When you use it, the statistics come from google affiliate search engines as well. So the number you see is actually smaller for both broad and exact.

Can you give me an example foy keywords "greek ionian" ? The result at United Kingdom is 2900 searches/month .From your expirience how much smaller it can be this number?

[dagaul101]

You might be top of Google, but if no one is searching for your keyword, the traffic will not come, it could also depend on the seasonal traffic, certain sites differ in terms of traffic based on the seasons, or it could be you might be viwewing the search results when logged in to your Adwords account, that tends to give misleading placements

[mistermint]

Hi mistermint,

The GAKT is about as good as it gets, the problem is that folks often don't take the time to learn how to use it properly.

If your site was simply copied and remained unchanged when you moved it to your new host I would suspect the host may have blocked the Googlebot from crawling your website. Add your site to your Google Webmaster Tools account and check the diagnostics.

Hi Dburk,

Sorry I missed your comment..the site did bounce back..thanks!

With any new site the first place I put it is stumbleupon..I've found good and instant traffic from it and it helps to get indexed fast..

[jesus72knight]

Rankings are negated if traffic is very poor thus giving you poor conversions.

[Benjustin]

try targeting a different keyword or check your webmaster tools for on-page problems

or your tracker may have a problem

[Richard Weiler]

Check the result on a multiple Google data center search and make sure you are getting accurate results. I have a hard time believing that much traffic is going by you with no flow to your site. I know that results can be skewed but they are still a reflection of real traffic. You should be getting at least 5 visitors a day to your site.

I also agree that your Meta description should not just be keyword loaded it is your opportunity to entice traffic onto your site.

Lastly if there is a good bit of traffic #1 will land you over 3x the traffic that #2 lands
you. Before you write this keyword off see what you can get from a #1 rank and make
sure your analytics on the site is working. You can test the analytics by going to your site from several IP addresses and logging the number of hits to the site against at least
ten different IP addressees.

Good luck.

[marksmandweller]

I think you have covered other optimization services page to gain backlinks. It is advisable to use the SEO link building strategy.

[marksmandweller]

In my personal experience, I think Google is the best if traffic growth. You can also rely on Yahoo and MSN, the same.

[alextuder]

Originally Posted by Osman_M

Hey guys,

Im a fairly new member here but have been lurking the forums for the past couple of months.

I setup a wordpress blog about 2 weeks ago and currently its ranking 2nd on Google for its keyword. Sometimes it even ramps up and takesover the 1st position.

The keyword gets searched 1900/month (broad) and 1600/month (exact) as per google keyword tool .

However, I have no traffic whatsoever coming to the site. Not even 5 visitors. All the traffic which is about 50 visitors in total since the site was put up is through 4 articles I submitted to Ezine. But now thats even dead.

Any ideas?

TO be frank, 1900/month (broad) and 1600/month (exact) is very very less. If you divide it by 30. u get nearly 30 searches / day..... Can u still except "Traffic" .

I would advice you to increase your "kw base". Can u tell me what are your kw's??

[joesmith1608]

Do article posting,press release,classified,book marking ,yahoo answering etc.I am sure you will get good traffic.

[marksmandweller]

A site has recently been the number one in a niche market, which has a search volume of 2200 days, however, my blog seems to be less than 100 visitors. Reason: 3 sponsor ads on the site.

[davidtakson]

I think you were focused upon the other off page optimization services for earning backlinks. It is advisable to avail link building strategy of SEO.

[davidtakson]

I think constant implementation of efficient SEO techniques will surely help you out. It will drive relevant traffic through Google and other search engines.

[bollinger]

Ya I am going also thinking that the sponsored ads could be stealing your traffic. I know that I tend to ignore sponsored ads when performing searches normally. If the search results aren't what I needed, then I start looking at the ads.

[GrowTallerNiche]

As others have said sponsored ads. It depends on whether your searchers are internet novices or not and whether the sponsored ads answer the question so to speak.

How tech savvy is your niche(how often do you think your niche uses the internet)?

[IsraelAlarid]

Google is like that... they change algorithms so much that it is nearly impossible to keep a site SEOd. I call it: job security for SEO companies. hehe.

[amrish2338]

Getting good search engine ranking is not sure that you will get traffic

[dabspalalabs]

just passing by....