My Adwords stats. Always rank #1. But no action. Why?

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Warriors,

I've got a website that for many months has organically ranked #1, always, for a keyword phrase that gets:

9,900 local monthly searches broad, and
720 local monthly searches, "phrase".

More than double those stats with global. This is per the Adwords keyword tool.

My clicks or visitors are only 15 per week. No action after landing. I don't have an optin, but do have an offer for a freebie. They have to email or fax me something first.

What are your initial, experienced thoughts.

Charles
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  • Profile picture of the author drewfioravanti
    Three things:

    1. AdWords is a PPC platform. I believe you are talking about Google SERP or search.
    2. That is not a lot of traffic. I don't know what your keyword phrase is, but the broad search is not very targeted for what you are trying to rank for, and the phrase and exact searches are super low.
    3. You are making it too difficult to get your information for the few visitors you do get.
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    • Profile picture of the author NeverTooLate
      Originally Posted by drewfioravanti View Post

      Three things:

      1. AdWords is a PPC platform. I believe you are talking about Google SERP or search.
      2. That is not a lot of traffic. I don't know what your keyword phrase is, but the broad search is not very targeted for what you are trying to rank for, and the phrase and exact searches are super low.
      3. You are making it too difficult to get your information for the few visitors you do get.
      Thanks Drew. I'm not familiar with PPC vs SERP platforms. Never heard of the latter.
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  • Profile picture of the author jipolis7
    What are you talking? I am not so sure about it. Would you please share the keyword for which you are in the number one there. 15 visitors in a week is nearly impossible.
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    • Profile picture of the author NeverTooLate
      Originally Posted by jipolis7 View Post

      What are you talking? I am not so sure about it. Would you please share the keyword for which you are in the number one there. 15 visitors in a week is nearly impossible.
      Sorry cannot share the phrase. Is 15 per week too low, too high, based on the stats?
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  • Profile picture of the author drewfioravanti
    Regular Google search. AdWords is PPC. Are you buying traffic? It sounds like this is SEO, and you are trying to rank your website for a certain keyword phrase.
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    • Profile picture of the author NeverTooLate
      Originally Posted by drewfioravanti View Post

      Regular Google search. AdWords is PPC. Are you buying traffic? It sounds like this is SEO, and you are trying to rank your website for a certain keyword phrase.
      Oh, I see. Will correct my initial thread then. The #1 rank is organic, not for PPC.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Originally Posted by NeverTooLate View Post

    Warriors,

    I've got a website that for many months has organically ranked #1, always, for a keyword phrase that gets:

    9,900 local monthly searches broad, and
    720 local monthly searches, "phrase".

    More than double those stats with global. This is per the Adwords keyword tool.

    My clicks or visitors are only 15 per week. No action after landing. I don't have an optin, but do have an offer for a freebie. They have to email or fax me something first.

    What are your initial, experienced thoughts.

    Charles
    My first thought is that your listing, as it appears on the search results page, is not motivating searchers to click through to your page. A lot of people see an out-of-context statistic like "the #1 result gets 40% clickthrough" and assume that all they have to do is hit #1 and watch the crowds roll in.

    Even if you do get that #1 position, you still have to beat out #2-#9, all the Adwords ads, the suggested searches, the 'next page' link and the back button. You have to make a human trying to accomplish something think you might have something that will help them reach their goal.

    My next thought is that the freebie you are offering doesn't motivate the handful of people who do visit to jump through the hoop of emailing or faxing you.

    This may or may not be a bad thing, depending on your business model. If you're trying to refer people to a relatively low-ticket Clickbank product via an email series, you want as many reasonable prospects entering your net as possible. If you have a big-ticket item with an involved or expensive sales process (like mortgages, life insurance, something with physical samples you mail out, etc.), then you want to filter out the tire-kickers and lookie-loos.
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