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Maybe Someone Can Elaborate... But this doesn't compute to me.

by WebFlip
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I've been trying some new methods of building sites to generate adsense revenue, and I recently found a long tail keyword string, 7 words, that gets 3975 daily searches according to SEO Book. I bought the exact keyword string .com, optomized it and within 12 hours it was on the first page (position 6).

My question: How has the site received zero traffic when there's a supposed average of almost 4000 daily searches? Even though it's not position 1, I have many other sites similar that receive large amounts of traffic on pages 2-4, and this hasn't received 1?

My counter isn't broken and my eyes haven't been playing tricks on me... Am I missing something?

Best,
#compute #elaborate
  • Profile picture of the author Adam H
    I would say seo book is wrong , but then again i could be wrong too. BUT if you are 6th position and not getting any of that 3k + aday its pretty good to assume it is wrong dont you think ?

    I take it you did actually do you own research
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  • Profile picture of the author WebFlip
    Haven't gotten 1 visitor... That's what I don't understand, if there's a fallacy in the validity of SEO Book then I would like to know... I base a lot of work off that.
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  • Profile picture of the author DuncSTL
    SEObook is a good source, but now outdated by a few years.
    If you want the goldmine for SEO, join SEOmoz.org

    The problem is, you cant read one source of SEO and rely purely on it.
    Google changes things each month, what used to work doesnt necessarily work now.
    It's like anything else, you have to upgrade...

    Good Luck.

    PS... I started with SEObook too, go join SEOmoz!
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  • Profile picture of the author bannor32
    Did you try plugging your keyword phrase into Google's keyword tool? Try that and set it to exact match and see how many monthly searches it shows.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lucid
    Just seems to me you are making a couple of assumptions here.

    First, the number of searches for the keyword. You just don't know for sure and relying on what some are saying is old, possibly invalid data. The only way to get exact numbers is to run a PPC campaign on the keywords of interest. The campaign's stats will tell you exactly the number of times each keyword was used in a search.

    Try Bannor's trick. Use the exact match in Google's keyword tool. It's not perfect but at least will give you a better idea, short of a PPC campaign.

    Second, you assume that a certain number of people will click on your listing. You say you expect 4000 daily searches on the keyword(s) so even a one percent click rate would give you 40 clicks per day. But as I've said, you don't know for sure what that number is. It is possible that there are 4000 searches but nobody clicks.

    You mention it is a 7-word long-tail. In my experience, I can't think of any 7-word keyword that gets that many searches per day. Most people just don't usually search that way. Not saying it's impossible, just improbable.
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