Im abit annoyed and confused right now, i put alot of money into a new website to rank high for a keyphrase that has over 400,000+ overture, lone behold i am #2 on Google for the term so i was expecting some big traffic to come but yesterday i saw 30 uniques Any ideas??
Firstly you're in the UK. Do you rank on google.com? Is overture telling you this is UK traffic or global? Do you appear on all dc's? Time can be a good healer.
I'm #2 UK and .com, im #2 on all DC's on mcdar.net dance tool. The overture 400k is for the US. Im #2 on MSN aswell but not very high on Yahoo
What it could be is semantics: Do you hold the plural and the singular of the keyword? Is it relevent? It can have a massive difference.
That's what I was thinking as well. The plural and singular keyword phrases can make a huge difference.
it said 90k one month and went down to 4k the next for a keyword i was tracking...that's how unstable..
So lets say Overture tell you that "blue widget" gives 14k searches a month. It treats "blue widget" and "blue widgets" the same... So in fact the trafffic may just be coming from "blue widgets". - The plural.
Well put. Try typing the word in wordtracker to find if the searched term is plural or in different order, etc. http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
Yes overture will often move word orders around. Often in alphabetical order. "test my Keyword" may be shown as "keyword my test". You have to use your brain a bit to determine the proper semantics of a term and what a real person is most likely to type into a search engine. And yeah, overture will drop the "s" on a plural word, but for some terms the plural is what people search most often.
Well it seems like it would have been a term people search for, if i put it backwards as Overture sometimes does it would have been 'service *keyword*' which wouldn't make sence
You should do some thorough research before investing a lot of time and money in a website and not only rely on overture... The data they supply are sometimes a lot different than the reality
Dont use overture for determining placement and plural. Thats what wordtracker is for. Use wordtracker and let us know what it says.
yeah, that's really annoying. and inconclusive. it's really crap even from a paying advertisers standpoing. The results would be different for those two searches. There's 100,000 more sites indexed for the plural of that search alone!