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Google page 1 and still no traffic...what the...

by Mitsu Fisher
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I'm on Google page one, fifth from the top, for my keyword.

I selected a long tail keyword, with 2,000 searches per month.
Very limited competition. I checked the competition using three separate methods. They all indicate very low competition. I put up a Wordpress blog with three posts and three pages. I got up 12 inlinks. This got me to Google page one, position 5.

The problem?

Adsense says I'm getting 3 page impressions per day.
My stat counter says I'm getting 12 visitors per day.

My Adsense earnings are almost nothing.

The Google keyword tool said the CPC for the keyword I selected was $2.50. I'm getting paid way less then that, from Adsense. I'm getting about 1 Adsense click through per week!

What am I doing wrong?

Can I get this site up to $1.00 per day in Adsense income?

Is this a doomed effort?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Mitsu Fisher
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  • Profile picture of the author XFactor
    Originally Posted by Mitsu Fisher View Post

    I'm on Google page one, fifth from the top, for my keyword.

    I selected a long tail keyword, with 2,000 searches per month.
    Very limited competition. I checked the competition using three separate methods. They all indicate very low competition. I put up a Wordpress blog with three posts and three pages. I got up 12 inlinks. This got me to Google page one, position 5.

    The problem?

    Adsense says I'm getting 3 page impressions per day.
    My stat counter says I'm getting 12 visitors per day.

    My Adsense earnings are almost nothing.

    The Google keyword tool said the CPC for the keyword I selected was $2.50. I'm getting paid way less then that, from Adsense. I'm getting about 1 Adsense click through per week!

    What am I doing wrong?

    Can I get this site up to $1.00 per day in Adsense income?

    Is this a doomed effort?

    Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

    Mitsu Fisher
    You probably do not want to share you link here, but I specialize
    in small niche markets like the keyword you are mentioning.

    If you like, I'll be happy to look at your site and will need
    some other info to help.

    Just PM me if you like.

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  • Profile picture of the author Rumait
    Place your google adsense at place where they will refresh with page browsing
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  • Profile picture of the author Smokey_Joe
    I will be repeating myself, but no traffic from visible google positions can only mean that the search terms is to limiting or your site is not sufficiently relevant to the terms (the bounce rate suggestion above will be indicative of that).
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    • Profile picture of the author Stephen Crooks
      When you did your research with the keyword tool did you have it set to exact match and was your international settings set to your target country? This can make a difference to search numbers and cpc.
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      • Profile picture of the author pluto1
        Originally Posted by Steve Crooks View Post

        When you did your research with the keyword tool did you have it set to exact match and was your international settings set to your target country? This can make a difference to search numbers and cpc.
        Does this really make a difference? I was showing at the same location in Canada and US in google (for .ca and .com). Would it matter if the targeted locations are different? Maybe little bit of difference, not much?
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
    Originally Posted by Mitsu Fisher View Post

    I selected a long tail keyword, with 2,000 searches per month. Very limited competition. I checked the competition using three separate methods. They all indicate very low competition. I put up a Wordpress blog with three posts and three pages. I got up 12 inlinks. This got me to Google page one, position 5.

    The problem?

    Adsense says I'm getting 3 page impressions per day.
    My stat counter says I'm getting 12 visitors per day.
    Assuming you're talking Google KW tool search numbers, taking your number and applying my formula you can expect roughly about 6-8 visitors per day from the Google organic search results.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Heron
    Mitsu, the traffic you're getting seems about right.

    Let's say 1000 of those visitors will be actual unique people genuinely looking for something related to your niche. Divide that by 30 and that's about 33 unique visitors a day. Considering the first ranked website would be getting the vast majority of visitors, if you're pulling off 12 unique visitors a day then you're not doing too badly!

    The trick is to target many long tail keywords that are related to a broad keyword term, and slowly build up your authority to more competitive keywords. Why not create another 10 pages targeting another 10, separate, long tail terms, that get 2000 searches a month, and then get 120 visitors a day? At the same time, you'll build up your domain authority for your keyword, and will start to rank higher for other related long tail phrases that you may not have targeted.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
    To begin with, if 2000 count is from the KW tool, it isn't a useful number for organic Google-only searches.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Originally Posted by Steven Carl Kelly View Post

      To begin with, if 2000 count is from the KW tool, it isn't a useful number for organic Google-only searches.
      Hi Steven,

      Are you saying the data from this tool isn't useful, or are you saying that 2000 searches is too little to target for organic searches?
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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
        Originally Posted by dburk View Post

        Are you saying the data from this tool isn't useful, or are you saying that 2000 searches is too little to target for organic searches?
        The data from the tool isn't useful for strictly organic Google-only searches. The tool wasn't made for that, it was made for Adwords advertisers. It includes more than Google-only SE searches.
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  • Profile picture of the author brp002
    I would say try doing for a keyword that gets about 10,000 searches per month. Get on the first page should no be to hard.

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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
      Originally Posted by brp002 View Post

      I would say try doing for a keyword that gets about 10,000 searches per month. Get on the first page should no be to hard.
      That's a good place to start. Depending on your title and text, in position one for that you could expect about 35 visitors to your site per day.
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