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Why so little traffic?

by Xeen
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I'm currently ranking #1 for a keyword that receives over 900 average daily searches according to Spyfu. I double checked that number with keywordspy as well.

So If I'm ranking #1 for a term that receives more than 900 searches a day, don't ya think I'd get more than 10 unique visitors a day to my website?

Also, I have confirmed I am #1 on different PCs with different IPs to make sure I'm not just getting Google love on my own searches.
#traffic
  • Profile picture of the author josefnew
    Xeen, the figures you get are just good for guidelines not to be used as the rule, in some cases the numbers you see include content searches which means the traffic comes from content sites and not organic searches.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoguy1
    Which search engines are you ranking #1 on?
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  • Profile picture of the author Davioli
    You might have made the mistake of checking searches by using "broad" match rather than "exact" match. (on the Google Kw Tool)
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    • Profile picture of the author keyaziz
      Also to add to what others have said what is your title like?

      I found by changing my title and description I managed to increase my traffic that way quite easily.
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  • Profile picture of the author digigo
    that is completely normal.. 10-1000... reminds me of rankings I see on Alexa.. a website can rank 100,000 to 500,000 at any given day...
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    • Profile picture of the author Xeen
      You might have made the mistake of checking searches by using "broad" match rather than "exact" match. (on the Google Kw Tool)
      Nope, I'm 100% sure I did exact.

      Which search engines are you ranking #1 on?
      Google. Is there another? lol

      Also to add to what others have said what is your title like?

      I found by changing my title and description I managed to increase my traffic that way quite easily.
      That might have a minor influence. But would it turn away 99% of the people searching for my site? I don't think there is any title and/or meta combination that atrocious that it could turn off that many people.
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  • Profile picture of the author duncanb
    Are you sure you are not ranked #1 for your keyword only for your region/county?
    But yes if these figures are not skewed, they sound way off!
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  • Profile picture of the author Crafty Blogger
    Edit: Oh, sorry, didn't read your whole post. I now see you addressed this...
    Are you sure you are #1? Sometimes the results in Google are skewed according to your browsing history, so it looks like you are ranked #1 - but you are not.
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    • Profile picture of the author sykopaf
      Check to see if you're ranking 1 for all datacenters, sometimes you might rank first in one continent yet not be on the first page for another. If this is true, that means that google hasn't yet allocated enough relevance to your site based on backlinks coming from that continent and more backlinking work is needed.

      Most of the time however, the lack of visitors can be attributed to incorrectly-inflated keyword tool results. For future reference, check your keyword against google trends. If there is not enough data reported for trend data to be shown, ditch the keyword.
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