Page 1, #7, still no sales, local monthly searches = 12000

Maybe your approach about the product... share your website so we can review what could be the problem

How much traffic are you getting?
Where you are ranked does not mean much if you are not getting any traffic.
If you are getting traffic and no sales. I would switch to either adsense or the ebay affiliate program.
In my experience adsense has out performed both amazon and ebay.

Yusufjaafar - Brad here. You didn't list your site. But an obvious thought that comes to mind - are your links built correctly so you get the sale credit?

Next, call to action. Are there a number of spots within the text where the reader can click thru. Many will not read an entire article. After a while it becomes almost second nature to figure out the entire article in the first 200 words.

Take a look at the offering and be sure it is market clearly -- click here to see etc.

Seems like I am being obvious - but sometimes it is just something simple. We are presuming the searchers are ready to buy as well.

There are blogs that go into searches in a lot of depth. Periodically, a keyword may seem like a "hummer" and turn out to be a "dud" for whatever reason.

Pat Flynn at SmartPassiveIncome.com talked about a similar experieince in his niche site challenge. He chose what looked like a killer key word that had duplicate meaning. In addition to what he was searching for - the keyword also referred to kickboxers. His site didn't get hits and then he discovered the site and changed approaches.

Hope that is useful.

Cheers ! Brad

Are you getting any traffic at all?

If you are and it's not converting... then check your copy or take the advice of the other warriors and change it up to a AdSense site!

I know this works for me

Hope this helps,

Colin

I'd be 99% certain that those local monthly searches are broad and not exact.

This is a very common mistake that people make and often baffles them when they rank their site on page 1 and get virtually no traffic.

Hi

Is that 12,000 EXACT MATCH searches? That makes a huge difference.

Monthly searches mean nothing and do not convert. They are simply a statistical estimate on how many people are searching for that term in Google. It does not matter at all how many people are searching for your product when determining sales.

What matters is how many people are actually coming to your page.

How many unique visitors are you getting?

If you are getting thousands of vistors but no sales, then work on your conversions. Better reviews, more "click" enticing links, etc.

If you aren't getting any traffic then look at the keywords you are using and the page Title and Description.

Both of these show in the Google Search results and can make a big difference on whether searchers click on your links or someone else's link with a more enticing Title.

You can increase traffic by pumping up your article titles and descriptions.

Is your "Boring Blah Blah Product Review" title competing with "Don't buy blah blah product until you read this insane review" in a competing link?

Is your description: "An in depth review of the latest blah blah product?"

Or is it: "This myth shattering review uncovers the real secret to finding the best blah blah product?"

Getting traffic and then converting that traffic is a lot more than the number of searches estimated in Google statistics.

Using those stats and finding keywords to rank high in Google is only the first step. You then need to convince searchers to choose your link over others on the page. This is with your Title and Description.

Once they have chosen your link over others, you need to convert them. This is with compelling content and getting them to take action and click your affiliate links.

Mahlon

Thanks for all the reply.

Ok, I'll share my site here:

My site: vizioxvt553svs.com

Main keyword: vizio xvt553sv (product name)

EXACT local monthly searches: 12000 (Please check it)

Average traffic per day: 12 unique visitors


Is it my problem is my traffic is still not enough or my site has low conversion.

Warriors, please share your thought.

Its going to take a lot of traffic to convert a $1600 product... Normal conversion rates you hear about on Amazon will not apply for that type of product.

Yep,my research shows 14,000+ exact match.

Here is what I see, not sure if it makes a difference.

In the search results:

The title showing is Vizio XVT553SV - Read Xvt553sv Review Here

You could make that a little more enticing or eye catching so people get curious about what the review says.

Your description is:

If you're looking for a review for vizio xvt553sv, you're in the right place. Read our review first before you decide to buy vizio xvt553sv.

Again, this could be much better copy to compel searches to go to your site.


On the page:

The page looks great the only thing I can think of is:

All you links say click here for "free shipping" or "to buy".

You want to send your traffic to Amazon because you get a commission no matter what they buy. If they aren't actually ready to buy your reviewed item they may not be interested in free shipping or "to buy" so don't click the links. But they may follow a link that says:

Click Here for more info from Amazon

or

Click her for more real customer reviews

Once on Amazon's site, they may buy other products that you get commission on.

You also don't have any "in line" embedded text links.

Links embeddied in your review text also get lots of clicks. So from you site you could make the bolded text below an affiliate link to Amazon:

Some of the other benefits of having this feature in Vizio xvt553sv LCD television are that it provides you with Pandora internet radio through which you can listen to various songs of your choice.

For conversions you want to look at your traffic stats. Go to your cpanel and check the AWStats a great deal of info there.

Once you have total traffic over say 1,000 you should have enough variety in traffic that you get some conversions and can start calculating a conversion rate.

I have an Amazon site I haven't touched since I built it that is in a competitive niche, is not ranking and has no backlinks and I still managed to sell a Laser Rangefinder.



Mahlon

Actually, I show 14,800 exact searches.

Your problem is traffic. 12 visitors a day just ain't gonna cut it.
Walmart and Amazon's results being right above yours isn't helping you either.

The CTR for 7th position is likely to be around 3%, so you're getting the right amount of traffic for your positioning.

The difference in traffic from #1 and #7 is pretty substantial. Continue building links and doing what you can to rank up.

Even though the people are interested in buying the TV, it doesn't necessarily mean it's something they want to buy online. Personally if it was me that was interested in buying a TV like that, I'd look up the review online and then go buy it in a store. Though if you can get the top spot, surely you will get some conversions so long as your content is good, as in not too salesy. Products on amazon can save people money though vses buying things in store, so mention it's the cheapest place you found to buy it.

I find your site to be very clean but the only problem is, your content is not exciting and has many grammatical errors. Such content can create the image in the reader's head that he's not on a credible site and hence add to the bounce rate. The theme, images, everything looks very cool but you need much better content to keep your visitor hooked for as long as at least hitting the link.

Two immediate suggestions....

1. Improve your search placement positioning
2. Split test

EDIT....

Take a good look at your website and ask yourself "Would I be likely to spend money here, or at the least TRUST this website..?"

I dont know about you, but for me - ABSOLUTELY NOT.

How about instead of just slapping up a dirty Wordpress Blog you make an effort, get access to the product you're promoting, shoot some videos, show people how it works, how great it is, its advantages, its downsides, pricing etc.

Hey, theres a thought.

Transparency and honesty ......:rolleyes:

From what I can see, you rank # 7 is not good enough and the current rate of visitor is low.

Try to get more Keywords and more visitors.

Give PPC a shot on google, to find out where you stand

The guy above is Right i Havent checked but if your at number 7 the clicks will be ALOT less you need to in 3rd at most
And it is a high $$ product id make the sales page really jump out and want to buy

Research and study sales conversion. Do split testing.

It could be just me...
but do people really type in the tv model in Google and then buy from these sites?
I would buy small products like books or clothes online, but I don't think I would ever purchase a tv online. And if I did, I would just go to bestbuy.com or a really big brand trusted web vendor.

According to the statistics, if your website rank No7, you get the least percent of visitors on the first page. It's less than 2%.

So 12000 monthly search, you can get about 240 visitors per month.

Here's what I would have done for your site.

Domain = would have gotten one that was more generic like Vizioxvtseries.com so I can target more models with one model tv per page. Allows you to target more kw and give your site more trust and authority. then every year when Vizio comes out with the next series you can target everything they have. (but not a big deal cuz you can still do the same thing with the current domain)

Also, you need something more catchy for your meta description.
"If you're looking for a review for vizio xvt553sv, you're in the right place."(I'm already searching for Vizio xvt553sv thats how i arived at this search result. this question is redundnat and waste valuable ad space)

"Read our review first before you decide to buy vizio xvt553sv" This line is much better and you should have more of this style of writing in the meta description.

Search Volume-
12k is avg in the last 12 month. But if you go to google trends you'll see that 95% of volume is coming from nov2010 to jan11 where it peaked at close to 30k. Now this kw's volume is practically non existent as you can see from your experience. Your site is ranking #2 from where I live so it is in a good spot.

Now can you convert really low search volume? Yes but you'd hve to have very compelling content. From meny of th post here we know hat needs some work. Hmm. so unprofessional with all my typos. Have you lost confidence in me yet? I think it is much easier to learn to drive more traffic and find kw with better search volume than it is to learn how to write compeling copy.

I think the main problem here is that you chose a bad time to go after this kw. You've got a good handle at the site layout and ranking for your desiered kw. I think if you did a littel better KW and market research you will find a gem that will make money for you.

Good Luck.

It might simply be that the audience for that keyword are not purchasing as much as you hope, sometimes it takes nothing but trial and error to find a winning forumla

12000 per month = 7% coming into your site per month from google.
about 840 visitors to your site per month from google
28 visitors to your site per day...
sale = 0.3% = 8.4% of chance of sale per day.
Not much is it...
I suggest you get to first ranking google