Found out a surprise about google keyword tool

[krestup]

Good day warrior,

There is something that is a bit of a surprise to me. I use google keyword tool to do my keyword research, i selected a keyword dat has 18000 searches every month. I rank for that keyword now but i ven't gotten any traffic from that keyword. I decide to use other tools to search for the keyword but i can't find searches for it except long tail keyword and they are giving me different search count. I don't understand is it dat google keyword tool is not reliable or am missing something? although i rank 10 on page 1.... I want to know what you think?

[MarathonMan]

You're looking at broad matches. Search with brackets [] around the keyword for exact match, and you'll probably find that nobody is searching for your term.

[InTheMaking]

Well since your #10 on a [broad] search with 18,000/month that's the reason your likely not getting any traffic.

[redcell1]

Originally Posted by InTheMaking

Well since your #10 on a [broad] search with 18,000/month that's the reason your likely not getting any traffic.

Exactly why. Check your google webmaster stats and it will show you how many searches really occur for that keyword.

[samual james]

I think you need to do exact search as compare to broad search for traffic. Try to get top 5 ranking for particular keyword to get good amount of traffic.

[krestup]

I have checked the exact an gave me 300. does that mean only 300 search d keyword per month? what about the broad?

[InTheMaking]

Originally Posted by krestup

I have checked the exact an gave me 300. does that mean only 300 search d keyword per month? what about the broad?

When you search [Exact] that's exactly how many searches your specific "keyword" will get.

So your keyword only get's searched for about 10 times a day and since the #1 spot get's 60% of the traffic, there's only about 4 visitors left and I'm sure the #2 and/or #3 spot will get them.

Bad keyword research man, try a new one.. don't waste any more time with this one.

[krestup]

Originally Posted by InTheMaking

When you search [Exact] that's exactly how many searches your specific "keyword" will get.

So your keyword only get's searched for about 10 times a day and since the #1 spot get's 60% of the traffic, there's only about 4 visitors left and I'm sure the #2 and/or #3 spot will get them.

Bad keyword research man, try a new one.. don't waste any more time with this one.

but what about the 18000 searches in the broad search, what does it mean?

[Ovark]

Originally Posted by krestup

but what about the 18000 searches in the broad search, what does it mean?

Here is what I have been taught. (please educate me if I'm wrong)
Broad means just that. example, let's take the word Bottle as the keyword.
An exact match search would be when just the word bottle is entered in the search bar.
Broad would be searches like;
baby bottle
water bottle
bottle redemption center
how to drill a glass bottle
how to cut a glass bottle
what is better a plastic bottle or a glass bottle
and so on. You get the point.
every search has word bottle in it, but the searcher is looking for something else beside just 'bottle'

[uProSoft]

You did a wrong keyword research. You are looking at the broad result which is Google default. You need to enter you keyword then type Exact.


When you use the default keyword search (broad), and rank number one on Google for that keyword, You will not get all the traffic you expect.
Lets say your keyword was dog training and you use the broad result to determine your search volume, then that volume includes people who are searching for other terms with your dog training keyword included. Lets say somebody searched for dog training tip. That is included in the search volume you will see.
But when you use the exact results as shown in the image above, then the volume you will get is what that keyword gets exactly without any additional word included.

I hope this helps. I have stressed enough probably mixed myself up, but hope you get the point.

Ron.

[krestup]

Originally Posted by ronsang90

You did a wrong keyword research. You are looking at the broad result which is Google default. You need to enter you keyword then type Exact.


When you use the default keyword search (broad), and rank number one on Google for that keyword, You will not get all the traffic you expect.
Lets say your keyword was dog training and you use the broad result to determine your search volume, then that volume includes people who are searching for other terms with your dog training keyword included. Lets say somebody searched for dog training tip. That is included in the search volume you will see.
But when you use the exact results as shown in the image above, then the volume you will get is what that keyword gets exactly without any additional word included.

I hope this helps. I have stressed enough probably mixed myself up, but hope you get the point.

Ron.

Thank you for taking the time to explain. I get the point ...