High rank in Google but low traffic

[kevinlts]

HI,

i have running my site since Feb 2007, its asianfood-recipes.com. Until now i have some keywords that rank in top 10 in Google, and also in yahoo. For example the key word of : "asian food recipes", which i think is competitive key words but all the while i only receive traffic from that keyword not more than 5. Same thing happen to yahoo SE.

As my site is running ~9 months, with PR2, indexed ~650 pages by googles SE. Is that possible my low traffic from googles caused by i am still in "sandbox" ? I only received overall 50 unique visitors generate from Google per day.

1 strange thing happen on 2 Nov traffic, where yahoo suddenly generate ~280 unique visitor from a keywords (eventually back to normal the next day), which already ranked in top 10. All the while the key word only generate below 5 visitor per day... the sudden increase of traffic surprise me.

Is my site still somehow trapped / still not release to 'public traffic' ?

Any comments / experience shared will be greatly appreaciated.

BRs,
Kevin

[kissmyarse]

Kevin,

I can't answer half those questions, but on the experience side here is a brief summary of where my site is at for similar metrics.

Opened: June 07
PageRank: 2
Indexed pages: 3,210
Avg Google Daily Uniq (last 30 days): 99
Max Unique from Google (last 30 days): 150
Min Unique from Google (last 30 days): 28

We don't rank top 10 in many keywords, as we are in a highly saturated niche, but Google treat us ok.

Hope that gives you at least a decent point of comparison.

[kevinlts]

A friend of mine running his site for 2 years and explain that his site also facing the same problems for the first 12 months, but out of sudden the traffic rocket high ... how can that be?

[shoaeeb]

The answer of this may be you have good page rank for the keywords but people search on those keywords lessly.