Hello, everyone! OK, this is just annoying: After struggling for 1-2 weeks to build links supporting an article focused on keywords "getting rid of scars" and "get rid of my scars", which according to GKT was associated with about 6k queries for the month of September... I realized it was actually a hollow victory! Why? 6k queries month = 200 queries daily. Right? Well, the thing is... after effectively getting my article ranked in a consistent #1 for the past few days... I'm just getting 5-10 visits a day to my article! That's MUCH less than the expected 200 views. What's up with that? I'm guessing: 1) the whole scar removal thing was more of a seasonal warm weather trend. 2) Google Keyword Tools' estimates should be taken with a grain (or ten) of salt. 3) My article isn't actually ranked in first page for everyone. Speaking of which, can any of you tell me what the title of my article is?
Actually your keyword research seems to be way off... I get 590 local searches and 880 global for the keyword phrase : getting rid of scars Even worse is: get rid of my scars which gets "not enough data" for local and only 1600 for Global. Where did you get your figures from??
You can check out if that was just a warm weather trend by using Google Trends. I don't have much faith in Google's keyword tool, or any other for that matter. I use them as a rough guide, and that is about it. Search for something on Google, Wordtracker, and SEO and you get different results. You are also correct in your #3. Google has thousands of "farms" all over the world. It makes sense that you can get different results depending on which server farm you hit. I live out in the sticks. When I use GKT from home, I get different results for the same phrase when I go to a friends house 60 miles away 5 - 10 visits a day for one article isn't all that bad. That is why you need to get it published in about another 200 places. Good luck!!
Bte if you have analytics on your article log out of google b4 u see where you rank it does affect... Also you can see the google search trends so you should be looking to see if it goes low to high over the months as this will show seasonality, also remember that people might not find your title and description attractive to click, plus the ppl below you plus the bought links. I would never count the 200 a day traffic as 200 id divide it by 4 and work for a lot of keywords rather than one
Wow reality check! Hey ok, I have failed and failed at IM for years, primarily through lack of a consistent work ethic. It's my problem and I'm dealing with it. With that in mind, while I've been inconsistent in my footwork, I try to keep in touch with what's going on, and here's what I see here: Your rough math says youwere expecting about 200 searches a day on what amounts to a long tail keyword. This keyword set will trend a bit with swimming season and whatever, but basically it's long tail. Ok so let's say there were 200 queries a day. Some of those are certainly idle queries, people looking around again for something new, people that have tried things before, etc... You got 10 clickthroughs on your ad in one day. Even if there were 200 searches that day, you're effectively telling me you got a 5% clickthrough rate. Man that's freaking great. In one to two weeks you took 1st place for highly targeted key phrases in a somewhat popular niche. And in that time frame you're getting an estimated 5% clickthrough rate on Google's estimated organic traffic for your key phrases. Based on terryd's research you're looking at 50% of all google searches for your terms. So there's a wide gap in the estimates, who cares. That 5% figure is great, anything more than that is gravy. Absolutely don't be dissapointed by this. Celebrate, and do it again. Congratulations.
My article is titled "Getting rid of scars, naturally! How my quest to get rid of my ...". Would you kindly let me know in what position it shows up in your queries to the keyword phrases I've mentioned? @terryd: I've used google keyword tools as well, and I got 5.4k global for "getting rid of scars" and 1.6k global for "get rid of my scars" :-/ @zeekstern: writing about 15 articles to get one article ranked in page 1 to get as little as 5-10 daily views to that article isn't wasted time? Even if I scaled up really big, I don't think it would turn out decent results. @Legendary11: Well, I'm aware getting on the first page and getting clicked on are two different stories, but I expected at least 100 hits. @goliath ... you do realize we're talking organic traffic here, not PPC? For PPC this would indeed be a mighty good CTR!
You're not ranked for "get rid of scars" where I am: http://clip2net.com/page/m0/2100483 but you're result 6 for "getting rid of scars". http://clip2net.com/page/m0/2100492 But keep in mind articles are shuffled around A LOT. You may see yourself at #1, but an hour later be result 4 or 5. You don't really get a consistent ranking after 2 weeks. But yeah, generally the keyword tool is off massively, and it should be used more to get a general feel for what people in the niche are searching, not going for exact results. My $0.02.
Hi Smitten I am seeing "getting rid of scars" as #7 across all google datacenters and "get rid of my scars" as #6 across all datacenters. Hope this helps Pete
Yes so do I ............. if I use broad match.....but you shouldn't be using broad match, you should use exact match.
Of Course I completely stand by what I said. Seriously man, 5% of total estimated search traffic to your target page? That's decent SEM isn't it? If it was PPC you could publish one screenshot and people would beg you to write a book. If you mocked up that screen shot some people would beg you to write the book just in case! Everything has a click-through rate and some sort of ratio or algorithm related to it. Search results, PPC/CPA or even CPM ads. Articles, landing pages, sales pages. Capturing 5% of total search traffic for a specific key phrase is nice. Maybe not "impressive" for a #1 organic result, but certainly not "annoyingly bad". I would be happy about it. I think I'm going to possibly go out on a limb here, but article marketing is not exactly a fast-traffic strategy when looking at this kind of niche. People spend, I would guess, a lot of time looking around at articles, blogs, whatever sites they can find thinking about it before they buy a product. These are going to be the people reading your article. Browsers. For this particular niche, I would venture a guess that PPC would convert well, just based on the general habits of people I've known. When they're tired of reading articles and blogs and papers or whatever, they click on an enticing ad to start reading the actual product sales info. The organic results are full of informative but usually GENERAL articles with teasers and links to more info, and this buyer is looking for product info now. Special offers, bonuses, reading the guarantees. The ready buyer is not looking for another article... You're targeting action keywords, which you use to grab buyers. Article marketing is about converting browsers to buyers. The numbers themselves are small here, but certain things are the same. 5% is decent volume for any method I know of. If you hit a couple hundred actual clickthroughs from your article and can't get any all the way to the sale, that may be another kind of issue. You're not likely to milk much more traffic out of that keyword/strategy, select another one and move on it. Check occasionally to make sure this article retains some rank. When it slips too far, write another one, or publish a similar article somewhere else and reference this one authoritatively for a little more link-juice to retain your spot. Volume of traffic will only come with volume of articles. That seems to be the successful method for article marketing to a long tail market. In a nutshell. Since this post is probably already TL;DR for most, I'm going to go ahead and ramble for a moment more. It seems the only real "Secret" left to article marketing is that for every hundred people (or whatever) that get to the spot you're at, only one or two actually goes on to do it for another set of keywords. Or actually finishes the linkwheel. Or whatever that next step is. It's freaking work and that's not what people are looking for. Me, I'm going to release a product, lol. I can't stand the grind of churning out content, I like to write code. It seems like I should be able to make some money doing that, and I'm really tired of freelancing. But I love IM and I'm always trying to learn, so if anyone thinks I'm off base please do enlighten me. Sorry for the big long post in the middle of your thread, I hope you find it relevant.
@terryd: oh. I guess that suits me for using a tool without really educating myself in its specifications. @pete: would you share the tool you use to check SERPS results across datacenters? @goliath: you actually seem well informed about the game; I wonder why you're disillusioned with playing it? You make some good points which are aligned with my plan of action, and for that I thank you! Ok, I guess the numbers make more sense now. For a 800 global monthly search volume and a #6-7 SERPS placement, I guess it all adds up to my actual results.
I heard that WordTracker sucks (not accurate), so besides Google Keyword tools, is there any reliable keyword tools that we can give trust? (Free ones if possible)
Often when you compare Google's keyword tool resuts to SEO Book or Wordtracker, the results vary greatly. The problem is that Google shows monthly results, and the other two show daily results. While you might think this shouldn't be an issue, it actually is. I can't exactly explain why, but it has something to do with the way robots collect the data/statistics. So probably the best thing to do is use few keyword tools and work out an average number.
No keyword tool can give u exact no of searches, i always run adword campaign to get no of searches for no of keywords.
It's just a tool, you have to learn how to use it. Google doesn't make "accuracy" claims. If you want to know more about your competition combine it with other tools like allinachor and allintitle.
Google adwords is always overestimating the number of monthly searches... It varies from one keyword to another there's not a precise non-accuracy for all keywords.. Use Wordtracker for a change and seo elite they pretty accurate.