3600 exact searches a month but only 12 unique visitors a day?

unless it's a seasonal keyword that doesn't make sense. Go to google insights and see the trends of the keyword, maybe it's just a bad month.

If not, than your definitely not ranking #1 for a 3.6k exact search keyword.

You should be getting close to 100/day from long tail keywords + the main keyword @ 3600/day. I suggest making sure Google webhistory is turned off.

I would also suggest using Google's webmaster tools to see what kind of impressions you are seeing for your keywords. It will tell you your average ranking for each keyword as well.

I think I might know what's going on. For the keywords that the site is ranking high for, there might be 3-4 sponsored ads that google is displaying above your site which contain the keyword and could be attracting all the visitors.

The key is to be signed in and to disable and CLEAR web history. You can do so here: https://www.google.com/history/?hl=en

You also probably want to set your location to "United States."

Don't +1 your website on whatever account you're using to check your SERPs.

When you're signed out, Google still uses cookies to create personalized results. That's why the guy above suggested using Chrome in incognito, but my method is generally easier.

Use google webmaster tool and track your visitors. You should know how your visitors are reaching in your site. It is likely to get more clear ideas about the stats of visitor and may be your keyword is having a bad season, it also can be a good reason.

ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS run a PPC campaign before you spent hours and months on SEO. If you run ppc for even a day, you will have more accurate search count than what the keyword tool tells you. A week is ideal but a day beats not doing it at all.

Do not despair, your hard work would pay off in the end.

Google policies are very confusing in certain matter. Their backlink counting, search ranking are not clear. They does not show accurate result.

My best guess is that you might be ranking #1 in your country but not globally. If you want to check your ranking in google US, you can check through this proxy server http*//www(dot)texasproxy(dot)com/

And always check the CPC for your keyword. If it is real good, you will definitely reap results sooner or later.

Clear your cache and cookies and you might have relized you're not ranked first place.

Ahh ... this happened when I just started out and was playing around with Hubpages. Luckily, I checked the rankings using different browsers and determined that the results weren't quite right. Still gave me a few nights of needless exciting dreams though ...

Yeah ... deleting the history should do it. You might also want to use the Google Ads Preview tools for more accurate rankings.

Thanks everyone.

Mate! Next time if you want to see your exact ranking of your website, just visit hidemyass.com and go to google.com with its proxy, then you can search for your KW. It is much more accurate!

I will suggest use rankingcheck.com

You check your link..I think you add you link in useless website that's why visitors not coming

I use Scroogle to check my rankings. Very accurate.

after the caffeine update this is a big problem. you can also put the rankchecker add-on for firefox on your browser which shows fairly accurate results and there are also free tools here 100 Web Tools Free SEO Tools Google Yahoo MSN Search engine optimization tools

This is really confusing, I did one keyword reseach with 1500 exact search and 50000 for monthly search and found that my webiste is not even close to first page..

The truth is 3,600 hits a month won't give you 100 hits on that keyword anyway. The top site for any keyword will only usually get 40% maximum of the global monthly hits. This equates to only 46 hits per day. You can see why the keyword with 720 hits generated only a measly amount of traffic.

However, if you are only generating 12 hits per day from an [exact] keyword match of 3,600 per month a few things could be going on. Some of which are already noted:

1. You may looking at global search volumes but not ranking globally.
2. The Google keyword tool could be giving false volumes (it happens all the time).
3. Your keyword selection may not be generating click-throughs (this can happen if the information requested is seen in the SERPs without needing to click on a site).
4. You may be viewing seasonal search volumes that do not apply to the current month.
5. You aren't getting accurate SERPs. Make sure you are logged out of Google, clear your cache and, if needs be, use a proxy server. Or just use an automated online rank checker.
6. Your title could be drab and your hits are being taken from elsewhere.
7. A host of other reasons..........

You should take heart from this however. You have ranked 2 keywords number 1 on Google and even if these are not ranked globally it shows that you can do this! Just be very careful with your keyword selection.

There is a vast difference between "keywords" and "money keywords". keyword selection is by far the most important aspect of internet marketing especially when it comes to SEO.

My advice is to try to target a keyword that gets about 8,000 hit per month so you can guarantee yourself 100 visitors per day - this should equate to 1 sale per day at a 1% conversion rate.

If you reach number 1 regionally then don't stop building backlinks. However, find out which Google country extensions are NOT ranking you and target web properties with those country extensions such as .co.uk or .com.au .... blog comments are by far the easiest way to get these backlinks quickly. A short stint of this should get you the global rankings you need.

We have found that targeting the .com and .co.uk is usually enough to secure a top ranking across all of the English speaking Google world (although we've even used it to rank in France strangely enough).

Although this is greatly simplified SEO it will work. I run an SEO company for what its worth. If you want me to take a look at this for you PM me and I'll be only too happy to help.

Your problem is probably due to you looking at exact match for worldwide not US.
Your Exact US searches are probably very low.
Check it again.

Sounds very possible that you just need to clear your cache and that your site is actually not ranked #1. Use Scroogle.org to do a search of your keyword and then see where your site is actually ranked.

Hey "keep trying"

You were eagerly checking your ranking on Google by typing in your keyword every couple of hours. This means that Google cached your website and displayed it first on the page of results because it knows that you have been searching for that site. It was position 1 on the first page simply because Google knows you are looking for that site, this is why it was position 12 when your friend checked it on his computer, he got the accurate results because he wasn't constantly typing that keyword into Google and going to a specific site (like you were) each time.

I'm surprised Google didn't give you a warning of unusual activity coming from your computer as it usually does if you consistently type the exact keyword into the search bar too often.

That's one big mistake there Keep Trying. You thought of ranking #1 on Google, yet it was only on your cache and on your own browser at all.

But well, if you are asking on how to increase your possible site visitors a day - for future reference - using the social media sites like social networks could be of good choice to use in driving traffic to your website.

Give yourself a pat on the back for first, doing the work to get ranked and second, coming on here and asking questions.

Most would have said "**** this, it doesn't work, I'll try something else".