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keyword tool compared to visitors

by klauzer
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I found a keyword [exact] that has over 4000 searchers / month in keyword tool. But when visiting this sites form the fist page and using for example Alexa this sites has poor visitor frequency.

What is right?
#compared #keyword #tool #visitors
  • Profile picture of the author stubo1903
    Alexa rank is really unreliable, so I'd stick with the figure from the keyword tool. If you can rank in first position you can expect around 40% of the visits from that keyword.
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    • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
      Even if you got every single one of the 4000 visitors for the month, your alexa rank would still be in the millions. You need a lot more traffic than that. FYI, alexa also only measures an extremely small sampling, so the numbers can be skewed a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author klauzer
    So how do I know how much traffic a site has. Even better how much traffic a site have for a specified keyword.
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    • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
      Someone else's or your site? You can't really know for sure for other sites, but for yours, you can either use Google Analytics or add a tool to your site that tracks/reports traffic.

      I would be more concerned about their rank for keywords and try to beat them. That you can check and know when you pass them.
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      • Profile picture of the author panic
        I usually find that tools are off by a certain %...for example I used to use a traffic estimator that would generate consistent results at about 10% of real traffic (based on the traffic levels of several sites that I had analytics on).

        So I would trust that site to give me a good traffic estimation by multiplying the monthly number it gave me by 10. Alexa gives a % of traffic per keyword so I suppose you could extrapolate it.

        End of the day, if you do not own the site the results will have to be taken with a grain of salt. But its okay to make some assumptions and have a decent idea of where traffic is at for others.
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