After much anticipation and SEO from a wonderful book I read, I'm finally on the first page for my desired keyword- but I don't see any visitors coming from Google. When I did my research, I used the Google adword tool to discover that my keyword has 1000 searches per month in my local area. If that averages 30 searches per day, should I see and click-throughs? Should I have attacked a much more prominent keyword?
But where are you on the first page? 30 searches a day isn't many, and the vast majority of those searchers click the first result, a much smaller number the second, even fewer the third...
Nothing under position #1 counts for much! Also no traffic estimator tool is accurate: they are always a month or so out of date so at the moment for example they will over-estimate summer topics and underestimate Thanksgiving topics!
Depends on where you are on the first page, However you can significantly increase your click through ratio by having a very compelling title Most people will quickly scan the titles of the search results and will click on the one's that are most compelling to them.
six million dollar question and one that people can't really let you know about but curent industry rates say you should get approximately about 1.5% CTR on general sites and higher on specialised niche sites
Check the search volume here as well: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/ What's your exact position for that particular keyword? "First page" is too vague.
Wow, thanks for all the responses guys. I think you're all absolutely right. I must not be seeing any hits because my page is actually 9th on the first page. If I think of myself as a searcher I would almost never click on the 9th result. I know my page rank is terrible (0 incoming links) so this is where I'll start my battle.
Ranking 9th with 0 incoming links is not that bad You have a good chance to rank in the top3 with a decent link building campaign.
Can you recommend a decent link building campaign that has worked for you? Also, it's ranked 9th at google.ca not google.com to clarify.
By a decent buidling campaign I mean: you working hard on gaining backlinks. It's not some network or anything automated
"clicking" as you put it is not only a function of being on the page in front of the visitor, but offering a compelling title tag and description that gets their attention and makes them WANT to see what you have to offer by clicking your link.