#1 on Google out of 20 Million-Zero Traffic?

Why would anyone search for "blood pressure lower"?

It isn't the type of thing you would search for in Google, you have to understand the thought process of searchers.

It is like thinking you can rank number one for "quotes insurance" instead of "insurance quotes" and get similar results, you won't because people won't input "quotes insurance" - it doesn't make any sense.

As Vincenzo says, you have to use the EXACT match - NOT broad when looking at the search data.

Don't worry though as many people have made this mistake.

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This is an unfortunate and common mistake for newbies.

When researching keywords with Google keyword tool you have to be careful as it doesnt always show the whole picture.

"Blood Pressure Lower" may show 1,000´s of searches a month but in reality the results are for the keyword "Lower Blood Pressure".

I am still confused about exact search, and I've been reading about it for a while. Market Samurai people says to search broad when using their tool. Why is it that we should use exact search on Google? Just wondering. I really am still confused about it.

If you search "BROAD" yes it shows like 100K searches per month, but if you do "EXACT" then it shows 0 searches per month. no one is searching for that term, which is why you rank and why you don't get any traffic.

In Broad it is picking up each word no matter the position, so as long is your stuff contains those keywords. But really the only reason you are ranking for this keyword is because of your domain name. So, it shows that yes you can rank for that term but if there was any real competition for this keyword, you probably wouldn't be in the first few pages until you did some traffic and link building.

So this is only one keyword. You should be focusing on hundreds if not thousands of keywords, because there are that many variations.

You need to get a big list of keywords and create a specific page that only talks about that keyword and then drive traffic to that page with articles and videos and podcasts, and social media and social bookmarking.

Start with easy wins like these keywords that don't get much traffic and then work your way up. Google will reward you in a few months, yes that's how long it typically takes unless you've found the few that everything fits right.

Pick a handful like 3 that actually get traffic and see what the competition is doing.

But that's why only a small fraction, like 20-30% of our traffic comes form Google.

I don't care if Google goes out of business, it won't affect me much because of all the traffic we get from other places, like the social media places and web 2.0 properties, and links from other sites, and videos and articles, etc. Plus we don't support Googles Pay per click model. We stick to free. Takes a bit longer, but the long run is where the success is.

So build out your keyword list HUGE. and then start driving traffic using all those places, Google isn't the giant any more.

you might want to outsource the repetitious tasks and spend a little bit so you can save time.

Now, consider this, YouTube just bumped out Yahoo for the 3rd largest search engine. So 1 social media site is now larger than one of the original search engines.

And consider youtube and facebook alone, 2 sites, get way more traffic than Google. And there are thousands of these sites out there. So don't just focus on Google - You need a mix.

And google even told us that with their release of the Universal Search engine and the Caffeine Alg. Plus take a look at all the sites Google is buying up, social media sites, video sites, online gaming, networking sites, image sharing sites, music sites, etc. You need to be at those places too.

Bottom line is you need a mix. You need to diversify and not be looking at just one thing, but an orchestra of things. Google will reward you later.

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