# of Exact Searches and Your Real Earnings - What Is Possible?

[Matt D.]

Hey, since I'm doing my own keywords research I thought I'd start a new thread about it. This is for all those doing SEO and ranking their websites in Google and other search engines.

What is your experience on how: exact # of searches/keyword correlates to monthly earnings one you rank the website?

What has been your best one and what your worst one?

My best is: 120 exact searches/month, about $1000 in a year from one single website.

My worst one, well probably ranking for 5k/month (G keyword tool) and then getting pretty much nothing in the end.

[BloggingPro]

In my experience the number of exact match searches has little to nothing to do with the amount of money I am going to make. So what does equate into earnings? Here are some questions you could be asking yourself.

Is the keyword a buyers keyword?
What is the competition on page one?
What is the product, what is the target demo?
Is it a physical or digital product?
What is the commission structure?

As always, just my $.98 (today's promotion only, ninty-six-cents more than you asked for!)

[RichardF]

Yeah agree with BloggingPro, there's just too many factors involved here. As you said yourself, you can rank for a high-volume keyword and make nothing, and vice versa. Best way is to do some calculations before going for a keyword. Figuring 40% of the traffic Google says if you're ranking #1, a 30% clickthrough to the offer from your page, a 1-10% conv rate on offer depending on what it is... It will be a rough guess, but better than nothing.

[JamesGw]

My best is 590 exact searches and about $1200/month.

[Matt D.]

Originally Posted by BloggingPro

In my experience the number of exact match searches has little to nothing to do with the amount of money I am going to make. So what does equate into earnings? Here are some questions you could be asking yourself.

Is the keyword a buyers keyword?
What is the competition on page one?
What is the product, what is the target demo?
Is it a physical or digital product?
What is the commission structure?

As always, just my $.98 (today's promotion only, ninty-six-cents more than you asked for!)

I agree these are all important questions, and I believe that we all have our own ways of getting traffic and making money out of it... and this is really what I'm asking here, to see what are the possibilities. This question is not for complete noobs, but those that have ranked websites and made money with them.
Usually we have some kind of system that we predict out earnings and I just want to see how that correlates to real results after.

[BloggingPro]

Originally Posted by Matt D.

I agree these are all important questions, and I believe that we all have our own ways of getting traffic and making money out of it... and this is really what I'm asking here, to see what are the possibilities. This question is not for complete noobs, but those that have ranked websites and made money with them.
Usually we have some kind of system that we predict out earnings and I just want to see how that correlates to real results after.

No doubt there are "systems" we devise to describe things, however, in this case, I really don't feel that exact match domain searches truly correlates into a dollar amount no matter how you spin it.

There is simply too many variables going on to be able to say, and I think your original post sheds some light on that. Your 120/exact match makes more money than a 5000/exact match.

Do they rank in the same spot? Are they both buyer's keywords? Are the monetization methods the same? Too much grey area involved to really make a safe assumption that such "monetary equations" exist.

[Hamida Harland]

My best is 480 exact match searches per month (according to Google) for about $1000 - $1200 a month.

I'm ranked no.1 for the keyword though, and I get alot more than visits for that particular keyword than 480. I also get some traffic for variations of the keyword.

[nicoledeal]

Bloggingpro hit the nail on the head. Your keyword must be relevant and drive traffic that is looking for the solutions you have to their needs/questions, and the competition for those keywords must be manageable.