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First Page, #2 and NO traffic AT ALL!

by silverbean
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I'm not understanding this at all. I found a keyword in the weight loss niche that gets 8,400 searches a month globally. Did a little research and figured that I could rank for it pretty easily.

So I registered a domain, did a few backlinks and bam, first page in only 3 days. The next day I was in the number 2 spot. I thought man, that was pretty damn easy!

So I'm like ok, any minute now traffic will start coming in and I'll start making money with adsense and clickbank. But it didn't happen, I think I got like one visitor according to analytics. One lousy visitor! I mean what the hell?

I just learned about this exact match/broad match keyword deal. I never understood how that worked.

So I just did an exact match search a few minutes ago on my keyword and it went from 8400 searches a month to 22 lol!

Did I just rank for a keyword that gets only getting 22 friggin searches a month!?

I don't understand this broad match/exact/phrase match stuff. How do I take this into consideration when doing keyword research?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ambience2
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    • Profile picture of the author TBInternetMarketing
      Originally Posted by Ambience2 View Post

      You should check your rankings in another browser in order to ensure you are not seeing personalized results
      Yip, I'd say this is exactly the problem. Google will return the results it thinks you want to see (usually with your site ranked higher than it actually is).

      If you want, PM me your keywords and site name and I'll see if I can see it on my side for you.
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      • Profile picture of the author silverbean
        I checked using about 10 different methods, browsers, rank checkers, different computers/ip's etc.

        I'm on page one, no traffic. Can someone tell me how the phrase/exact/broad stuff comes in to play with keyword research?

        Is my keyword in actuality getting 22 searches a month and not 8400?
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  • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
    Silver,

    In the early years of keyword research you should always go by "exact".
    You will learn as you go that the figures are "out" anyway but it will give you the picture.

    Now, 22 a month aint that bad Silver. It actually could work in your favour. Here is what I would do.

    I get posts indexed in minutes by using this method and I am deadly serious. Literally minutes on the strength of what I am about to tell you.

    1. Go here, it's free to use. Free LSI Keyword Research - Searches the Top 10 Results In Google For the Best Theme Keywords and type in your main keyword phrase. When the results come back grab all the 3 word phrases that pertain to your phrase.

    2. Grab 1 hour of time and intergrate some/most/all of these phrases into your index page. Take your time doing it and make sure your article does not lose it's theme.

    3. Once you have over 1,000 words have a rest.

    4. DO your normal promotion of the index page and the inner pages, which all should link back to your index page with both text links and a link from a picture on the inner pages.

    5. You will start getting visits to your site for unheard of keywords because of the "tightness" of your index page.

    [Maths calculation here: You will get about 10 visits a month if you are #1 for the main keyword. What happens if you rank #1 for 10 terms that get 22 searches a month and then muliply that by the number of pages you have. All of a sudden you are getting a couple of hundred a month.]

    6. Grab the keywords that found you and write an article with this phrase in the title. Put a link from the original to this new article using the keyword as anchor text. Link the new article to the index page. Rinse and repeat.

    [Here is a tip that I got from Griz. Make the title of every page a link which links to itself. I started doing this 4 weeks ago, maybe 3. I have a plugin which tells me how many pages of my sites got a visit. As of yesterday, 123 of my 145 pages had had at least 1 visit in 3 weeks. It started at 38-39 or something. Having this link helps your pages enormously]

    Perservere Silver. Good things come to those that do

    Cheers,

    Craig
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    • Profile picture of the author silverbean
      Wow, that is some seriously helpful info there man! I've been researching for days and that is the most helpful info I've heard yet!

      You rock bro!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr.H
    Always go for exact match
    because the "exact match" is what people put on searchbar
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