I've been getting some strange traffic lately. Several visitors from search traffic using keywords where im ranked 70-120 but somehow finding my site? Its happening quite often for a large number of keywords. Any idea how they're finding me?? Maybe SERPs changed since they searched and I checked??
It could be the datacenter they are accessing. You may see the term on that page but perhaps the others are on one that the keywords are higher ranked (you can hope anyway )
I understand your puzzlement because I also wonder how my obscure sites get traffic from some one word search terms. I can't even find my sites for some of these phrases.
This is true with the Big 3 SE's - They have lots of data centers. And the one you are hitting for key word search may be different from the one sending you traffic. (Some times the demographics do mater – for the same reason)
Its just a simple matter of someone not seeing what they want and scrolling down to the bottom of the search page and hitting (in this instance) 7 or 8 or 9 or 10.
The same thing happens to me. There could be another reason why you are getting these referrals, and it's because you are not receiving them from google.com, but also from google.com.uk or google.com.au, etc. check out how are you ranking in those search engines.
Some people have their Google results configured at 100 per page, so being ranked #101 would see you at the top of their page 2.
thanks for the responses. gonna look into this some more, but good to know that others have seen the same things before
same happens to me.. you get some referrals for popular topics.. if you were in results 1-10 instead of 100+ you probably would get 100 times more visitors..