High search engine rank, but low traffic

Position 10 will only get about 1-3% or less of the search traffic.

Ranking #1 doesn't matter if it is a term very few people search for.

Perhaps, those keywords you ranked on, have low monthly search volume? check Google Keyword Planner, see estimated monthly traffic from those keywords.

What Google Webmaster Tool saying?

What's the search volume of the term. Ranking on 1st position of Google for a low traffic keyword will not bring good traffic. However, in SEO the good thing is that in SEO website achieves rankings for too many keywords.

This situation is coming up with many peoples & they are really shocked to see this as they are on Top Rank but still getting low visits.

I have the same issue before 4 months & hardly I came to know, The Keywords those I'm targeting are low search volume & that was just a valid reason.

So I changed my keywords & found the high search volume keywords. So there is also one big thing which is missing.

I would just rank for more words, in my niche. Then big or small traffic, you progressively drive more and more targeted traffic to your blog.

Hi,

I also want to suggest that try to change keywords.

Think like a customer and choose keywords as per that. It will let customers to see your site URL on the Google search engine list.

check Google Keyword Planner, see estimated monthly traffic from those keywords.

The real question is: if your SEO Program is generating increased search rankings yet you're not receiving any additional traffic, what might be the problem?

This is because you are not targeting the right keywords. You need to target the right keywords.

Just because you rank 10th using a certain keyword doesn't mean high traffic volume. I would suggest trying out a different keyword.

The Reason is your and not using the right keyword which is related to your business or product please be specified while choosing your keywords track your competitors and try to check google trends for more Thanks

Check Google Keyword Planner, see estimated monthly search volume from those keywords.

The keyword you're targeting probably has low searches. Try to target more related
keywords in the same article and build some good quality links to it. Targeting more keywords and building quality links will improve your scope of ranking all over the world.

PS - Do not forget you must have a convincing Title and Description inorder to have high CTR.

Hi,
Some reasons regarding these problems are:
1.Might be you are targeting wrong keywords
2. Try to understand user intent means what they are searching for
3. Check your listing appearance on SERPs
4. Improve your website content and brand/service description

Hi,
In such a scenario, you need to choose high search volume keywords and rank your website in the top 5 positions of Google's SERPs. Use Google's Keyword Planner tool to find search volume of any keywords.

Targeting the right keywords

Well, you may be on the top 10 of your keyword. But it is to be kept in mind if the keyword itself is worth of traffic generation.
As per my opinion i think this factor is the answer to your query.

You even probably ranked for that keyword only because it's easy and not that worthy let's say. Is it some commercial keyword or so ? Let us know your full URL and keyword if you want some help and solid advice, unlikely there are many of your direct competitors.

What about your competitor's analysis? where they get traffic from? what about your google analytic? I think you should keep concentrate on these things. And make a better marketing new strategy.
Sometimes it's possible to get rank the first page on Google with less traffic. I think you got sound knowledge about technical SEO as well.

I think there may be issue with targeted keyword, you can use google keyword planner to select best keyword for your website.

It depends on the keyword volume which are you ranked. Ranking on 1st position of Google for a low traffic keyword will not bring good traffic. you should check Google Keyword Planner, see estimated monthly traffic from those keywords.

Take a look at your Title & description tags. Is your copy compelling? Are you enticing users to click?

Take a look at some Google Ads in your niche to get an understanding of phrases to use in your title tag.

Also, try updating the dates on the serp if it's a blog post or article. Use "Last Updated" to keep the content fresher. Or you can just update the date and republish the content.

Send me a PM and I'd be happy to take a look at your site.

Ranking on 1st position of Google for a low traffic keyword will not bring good traffic.

You need context. Others have asked what's the search volume. Just because you're on top, doesn't mean a million visitors, it all depends on how many people are searching on the keywords you are ranking for.

Some are saying you are using the wrong keywords. They are wrong. None of us know if you are or not because we don't know anything about your site and your business.

Others are saying to target higher volume keywords. Again, they are wrong. It's not about the higher search volume keywords - which will be more difficult to do - it's targeting the correct ones for your business. It just doesn't matter what the volume is. If it's the correct ones that are likely to lead to your most wanted action (signup, download, sale), they are going to be your winners and make you a good return. These are the ones to concentrate on, not the higher volume ones.

If you can't convert on your primary (most times lower volume) keywords, it won't matter on anything else. You first need to prove that the strategy is sound. Then maybe try for the higher volume keywords but usually the cost is not worth it. There's a reason primary keywords are primary, the secondary and tertiary keywords are too broad and generic leading to just traffic, if you can rank high enough for them.

As pointed out by others, there's a big difference between 1st and 10th position. As you go down, the click rate also goes down. But even in first you may get a 25% rate, never 100%, and probably most will get just 10%. If you're in 10th position, you may get lucky with a 1% rate. Tenth by the way is on the edge between first and second page for most people so being there you may miss out on exposure as your rank teeters between the first and second page.

You say you got 241 visits in a month. What were you expecting? I don't know the volume and you're between 1st and 10th but seems a good start and something to build on.

First checkout whether a keyword is trending or not.

I think you have chosen the low competition and very low volume search keyword. So it is better to change the keyword which has high volume searches. It doesn't matter whether your keyword is in 1st page 1st position or 10th position.

low competition keywords ranks high with low traffic.

It depends on the keywords competition which is ranked higher into search engine.

Have a thorough SEO audit

In this case, the keywords that your website is ranking for might have less traffic. I would suggest using RankWatch Keyword Research tool, Google Keyword Planner, Google Trends, Ubersuggest or some other free tool to observe monthly search traffic on those keywords for which you are ranking. That data will also help you know the areas that require more focus and upgrade your strategy.

Are you sure that your website is exactly what people want to see using the keyword? Are your meta title and description correspond to this keyword?

Hi,
Few reasons of lack of traffic are:

1. Maybe your site page are not completely indexed
2. Boring or non-informative content
3. Irrelevant keywords usage
4. Absence o keyword in headlines
5. Content is of low-quality
6. Internal lining is missing
7. Not using web 2.0
8. Non-optimize image

Its all depend on the monthly search of particular keyword. If your keyword having low monthly searches then that keyword will not bring traffic. For getting more traffic you need to select the high search volume keywords for the traffic gaining.

I think you need to update your on page SEO.

Sorry for not responding to any of these. Warrior Forum took forever in posting my thread and I honestly didn't even know that it went up. I only just got an email about a response today for the first time.

The keyword isn't an easy one to rank for and, in my opinion, it is the type of keyword that has buyer intent, so you would think that they would be clicking through.

then the problems lies on keywords

The time an increase in search engine visibility generate additional organic traffic, but what should a B2B marketer do. if it doesn't? Have you ever been a critism of this scenario? Below three aspects of your SEO Program to analyze and improvement to ensure that your SEO investment is generating website visitors, prospects and ultimately leads to the customers.

Low volume keywords have low traffic and low competition and are easier to get ranked. Try to look for keywords with high volume and low competition will helps you to get more efficient traffic. I suggest you to go for a compositors analysis, it will help to get to know about the trending keywords and you get the idea on which keywords you can compete.

They are mainly 2 resons ,the keyword you choose its so searched or your site aspect its very bad and people leave imediatly as they see it

I think it currently happens like that to many site owners since most people do a lot of White Hat SEO to get to top ranks. If you've stuffed keywords or your content is poor, you are not likely to sustain even the little traffic that comes your way. That may not be the case with your site, but I simply mean that ranking top doesnt necessarily guarantee you traffic. You could be ranking for less searched keywords

When your website experiences a significant drop in organic search rankings, you will lose traffic, business, and revenue.There are many reasons for sudden drops in website traffic.

OP, your situation is NOT SURPRISING at all.

You picked a LOW SEARCH volume keyword traffic

This may also partly explain why you ranked so well-the keyword doesn't have enough traffic to COMPETE OVER

The good news? Some keywords have low search volume but this doesn't necessarily mean people won't PAY GOOD MONEY for goods and services related to those keywords...

Example: GOLD IRA search volumes are not all that high but affiliate programs in that niche pay some of the FATTEST PAYOUTS in the IM industry

Don't let low search volume throw you off... FOCUS ON CONVERSIONS AND R.O.E. instead

Thanks for such kind of Information.

Traffic on your website depends upon many conditions. If you are ranking on first it doesn't mean you will get good traffic. The keyword which is ranking on first may be the negative keywords for your website.

Try to add some new keywords which are more relevant to your website and make the backlinks which are worthful for your website.

You choose the wrong keywords.It will not help you.

If you are ranking high that means one thing. The competition is much easy. But the search rate for that keyword is very low.

You are doing it right ranking the keyword high. But just the wrong keyword. Haha, good luck.

It depends upon various things. Check whether you are using magnetic SEO Title or not, check the number of traffic on that specific keywords. Check what meta description you are displaying right now, it should be attractive and user-friendly.

Please pay attention on get higher search engine result page ranking from 10th position to top 5 position. Do strong keyword research, only work on good search volume keywords. Work on your web content and user interface also.

In this case, you have chosen keywords that have low searches. Although they are ranked in the 1st page the have low searches that's why you are not getting that much traffic.

Hi,

You need to have a thorough SEO audit for your website, making sure that your website is exactly what people want to see using the keyword. Your meta title and description should correspond to this keyword.

Also, you should check out on these points:
1. Your site page are not completely indexed
2. Low-quality Content
3. Irrelevant keywords usage
4. Missing Internal Linking
5. Missing Out on the latest search trends

Good Luck!!

Bascially already have been said almost anything it can be done for. You have like too low search traffic no matter that position. Optimise on page and off page for more keywords here really. I do not understand what is going on here ? I think it's something cool.

It means that you are targeting the low search volume keywords. You need to change your keywords selection. select the keywords with higher search volumes. It will take a lot of time to rank on top but once it will be on top, you will get the best results.

That is very interesting, maybe someone is stealing traffic like a hack they click your website in search but it goes or redirects to a competitors?

Do the keyword research for high volume, medium to high competition keywords. Focus all you effort on them. It will be fruitful.

If the monthly search volume of keywords that ranked in 10 position is low. It will also the cause of low traffic. Use the high search volume keywords for more traffic. Guest posting also a way that help you to increase the website traffic.

you might have used keywords that are no longer relevant or are outdated. and also Algorithm Changes

Please check your keywords monthly search volume. If your keywords search volume are very less then how you can expect traffic.

Keywords research is play important role in term of SEO, so please check once at your end.

Hi RenFromPen,
This is Luke Smithy..

I think the problem with your website is that visitors not finding the information which they are looking for may be the content of your site is not relevant so you can try this which will help to increase your bounce rate.
Lets come on traffic
In this era where everyone on social sites like facebook, twitter, linkedin, pinterest, youtube, etc. you can get traffic from here.

If you are getting low traffic from your targeted keyword, the reason could be the low search volume with low competition for that particular keyword. Get the search volume for the targeted keyword from Google Keywords Planner. If the volume is low, better select other relevant keyword that has high search volume and a low or medium competition. Low or medium competitive keywords get high spots in Google search engine result pages in less time compared to high competitive keywords.

Hello RenFromPenn,

What is your position for that keyword is not a mater, How may people searching for that keyword is the mater.

For example,
KEYWORD1 have 250 searches per month & KEYWORD2 have 1 million searches per month.

1st position for KEYWORD1 will get 250 visits from search engine maximum, But 15th position for KEYWORD2 will get more than 100K visits from search engine.

Check out your keywords organic search volume and if it well, just modify your post title with Eye-Catching Headlines

What is the search volume for that particular keyword?

I think the keyword for which your website is in ranking must have low traffic or I can say the keyword you are targeting has low searches. I would suggest you try the Keyword planner tool or Ubersuggest to check the monthly searches on the same.