Google Ranking Question

[robert11]

Hi, for some of the keywords that I am targeting, when I do a search on Google to check their rank, it does not show up anywhere in the first ten pages, but occasionally in Google analytics, it shows a visitor for that keyword.

Do you know what is going on with this? I highly doubt people would go ten or twenty pages in and then click to my site. Is this a sign that the site may soon rank well for the keyword?

Thanks

[TerryL]

Do you have any back links on other sites that are hyperlinked through anchor text using the keywords the visitors are using (the ones that aren't ranked on page 1)? The traffic could be coming from there and not from the search engines.

[robert11]

Do you have any back links on other sites that are hyperlinked through anchor text using the keywords the visitors are using

Yes, I have backlinks using the same anchor text, but I thought if someone clicked these that it would show up as a referral from that website and not show as an organic search visitor from google.

[Matt Red]

Well google doesn't just show generic results to everyone, it caters to where you are, what you've clicked on in the past etc. It could be a google images click from that keyword or another google type search engine, or it just came up on page one for someone else even though it doesnt show up on page one for the masses.

[TBInternetMarketing]

Originally Posted by TerryL

Do you have any back links on other sites that are hyperlinked through anchor text using the keywords the visitors are using (the ones that aren't ranked on page 1)? The traffic could be coming from there and not from the search engines.

Yea it could be related to this, or it could be that on other versions of Google, your site is ranked higher. I.e. in Argentina etc.

Can you see where your traffic is coming from?