My site on SERP 4 on Google, but no traffic?

I don't get it. Adwords keyword tool shows 27 000 exact local searches for the keyword. I'm on the 4. place on page 1 and there is no traffic from that keyword...

I'm very worried. Maybe 4 months of work went to nothing. How can this be?

Google search: http://www.google.com/search?client...urce=hp&q=best+buy+laptops&btnG=Google+Search

Site is "Best Buy Laptops" in my signature.

 

Is your tracking codes setup correctly?

 

Yes, I'm on the 1. page.

I don't know what could be wrong with my tracking code. I'm using Analitics and Statpress plug in and they both show the same.

Is it possible that Google keyword tool is wrong and that term "best buy laptops" isn't searched?

 

That term definitely gets searches. You're just not on page 1. I'm showing that you're ranked 35.

 

How did you check that? Can I see that?

How I see the site on page 1., position 4?

 

google tracks your searches, I have found my own sites rank better when using my computer than when using other computers.

 

You are right. I just searched using hidden proxy and I'm on page 4.

Thank you guys, I was scared that keyword has no searches...

 

I do not see your website at first page. in Google.com

Moreover the #4 and #5 results get much less clicks compared to top 3 of them.
Also Best Buy Laptops is not a very hot keyword I guess.

 

In the future you can use Google's Webmaster Tools to show you where you are being placed for keywords. It will average out the spot because not everyone sees the same results, you could be on page 1 for some people and page 4 for others, usually not so drastic but still.

 

Where have you read this announcement, please !

 

google's adwords tool is hopelessly unreliable when it comes to search numbers.

it overestimates by 20-30 times, so if we take their 27k estimate, divide by 30, = 900 a month

= 30 per day, at position 4 you can expect about 5% of that = 1.5 hits per day. on a good day.

recent discussion on this here

http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/why-th...ol-shouldnt-be-used-for-seo-a-case-study.html

 

SEOibiza, you are right! I always wondered at Adwords' seemingly ridiculous high numbers for keyword searches.

For example, on Adwords they show 1,500,000 monthly searches for a keyword I target. But on the other Google tool mentioned in the link you list, they only show 15,000 monthly, which is consistent with the numbers for that keyword shown by WordTracker's free tool.

So Adwords, in this instance, is showing a false number of searches that is 100 times the probable real number.

 

Then that other tool you have which estimates the expected number of search more accurate than google itself?

I mean compared to what you can say adwords tools estimation is poor.

 

The Adwords tool and the Search tool mentioned in SEOibiza's link are both Google tools. And they are different from each other by a factor of 100! Again, both are Google tools; that's crazy.

 

I don't see you on first page at all. May be it is personalized search. Try to delete your cookies and search again.

 

Hmm.
For what keyword(s) they differ by a factor of 100 ( or more )

 

Checking those search results I don't see your site anywhere from page 1-3.

 

Well, the other issue is: What are people looking for when they type this search. If they're looking to buy a laptop at the Best Buy online store, then of course they're not going to click on your site. They're clicking on bestbuy.com.

Pierre.

 

Why would not ANYONE click on a website other than bestbuy.com ?

 

In choosing keywords, I'm not paying so much attentions on the amount of traffics it will brought (since it is just an estimate at all). I'm using that figure to determine whether a keyword will give traffic to my website or not.