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1st Page of Google Still No Traffic?

by wakeup75
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I'm fairly new to affiliate marketing,I have developed a couple sites and have been able to move the sites to the first page of google with different backlinking. I use directories, social bookmarking, article marketing, press releases and a couple others. My problem is, is that even though I'm able to move the ranking for my sites to the first page of google I still see very little traffic to my sites? Is this because I'm only ranking one keyword? What needs to be done specifically to increase the traffic? Everything I have read says backlinking is the key and as I said I have been able to move the sites up in rankings but havn't had any luck increasing traffic? I have been targeting keywords with appx. 2500-3000 exact match monthly searches.
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  • Profile picture of the author SeanSupplee
    Depending on the keyword you need to figure out how many searches that keyword gets. Its easy to rank for some keywords because no one ever types them in to search for them thus no competition. Use google's keyword tool and uncheck mark broad and click on [exact] to find a better number of how many searches that keyword gets each month
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    • Profile picture of the author Tom Ryan
      There is a few things that could be at play here.

      You could have chosen a keyword that gets little to no searches. How many exact match searches are there per month?

      You didn't state what position you are in on the 1st page. The amount of traffic you get will drop significantly depending upon your position.

      If you are in one of the top 3 positions on google and it is a high traffic keyword, it could be that the keyword tool isn't giving you accurate info, or your title and description aren't matching what searchers are really looking for.
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        Originally Posted by Tom Ryan View Post

        If you are in one of the top 3 positions on google and it is a high traffic keyword, it could be that the keyword tool isn't giving you accurate info, or your title and description aren't matching what searchers are really looking for.
        Once you reach that coveted top3 position, you still have to entice a human being to forgo all the other possibilities on the page - including changing their search terms - and click on your listing.

        This is one of the biggest problems I see. Marketers figure out how to please the spiders, and forget that only humans can click ads or buy stuff or click links on SERPs.
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  • Profile picture of the author lutherlars
    Also, unless you are ranking within the top 1 to 3, you will not see much of that traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author Raydal
      Originally Posted by lutherlars View Post

      Also, unless you are ranking within the top 1 to 3, you will not see much of that traffic.

      So are SEO companies selling dreams? They all say
      "get you on the first page of Google".

      -Ray Edwards
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    First page is a good start. But the real traffic is in the top 3 results. I used to make the mistake of trying to just get to page 1. But after some experience I learned that page 1 is almost pointless unless you can make it to the top 3.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

      First page is a good start. But the real traffic is in the top 3 results. I used to make the mistake of trying to just get to page 1. But after some experience I learned that page 1 is almost pointless unless you can make it to the top 3.
      100% accurate. Sellers and some SEOs have given the impression that ranking for a keyword is the same as getting on the front page.

      After the top three every single study indicates that the traffic for any keyword begins to fall off - dramatically. By the time you get to 4 and 5 your traffic will be well below 5% of the search term gets on Google and it keeps falling the further you are down the page.

      So if you are even on the front page for a term that gets a thousand searches a day you will see as little as 20 visits if that much if you are way down on the front page. When you run that through bounce rates that may not make you a dime.
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    If no one is searching for that keyword, then you have wasted your time doing this.

    If you can target a keyword that gets 2000+ searches per month and get 1-3 positions, then you will do well.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebPen
    Yeah- if you're on the first page for "how to turn a purple squirrel into a giant dinosaur" then you probably won't get many clicks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan92
    I've noticed a tremendous difference a #1 ranking affords; this kind of surprised me at first, but then considering how people search, it's pretty intuitive to expect this.
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