Was curious as to what people consider to be a LOT of monthly searches for a keyword? 1,000? 10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000?
Depends on what you're selling, or if it's Adsense how high the CPC is. BTW if it is Adsense the content network clicks which you'll be receiving is much lower. Take a look at the click distribution in step 2 http://training.seobook.com/google-ranking-value As you notice other than the first 2 listings the other listings on the page averages about 5% of the search volume. And notice only 10% of the searchers will reach page 2. Generally I guesstimate around a 100 visitors for 2,000 searches, IF you reach page 1. And only a small percentage of those will buy or click on an ad.
I have websites making $37 / month with 300 daily visitors and I have websites making $100 per month with 15 daily visitors. Further... The past few days, I've been doing some media buys, and I have products converting in a 1,000 clicks. Using the same landing pages that convert in 50 clicks with organic traffic. Which goes to say... the quality and source of the traffic can be much more important than the sheer quantity of it, so don't get too caught up with numbers. For some keywords, you may get 100 visitors for 2,000 searches; for others you may get 1,000 out of 2,000, because it's a information-seeking keyword, where people will tend to check several pages of results.... while for other keywords (decision-making), the visitors may have already done their research and they're already looking to take action. I think it's always best thinking in terms of the place of the keyword in the buying cycle, and whether the traffic coming from that keyword matches the demographics of the stuff you're trying to sell. Think beyond numbers and keywords, try to see what it represents: consumers doing research and buying things.
A googolplex is a lot. I wouldn't recommend that many keywords or links unless you're in bed with Google.
10,000 monthly searches is very good. Remember that your not only optimizing for one keyword. Optimize 6 - 7 keywords and you got yourself 70,000 searches per month.
This is all very good advice, thanks for the reply's. What sparked my interest in this topic was the two domains that i just purchased last week. I was playing around with google adwords and found one specific word that is searched for 450,000 times per month. I check to see which extensions were available and come to my surprise the .org and .info were not taken so i purchased these two domains and threw together a nice little adsense page, and am currently waiting for google to index. I'm thinking that with that many monthly searches i'm bound to get some traffic if indexed in google...right?...I'm fairly new to the game and am still learning...
The numbers sound a little high, are you doing "exact match"? And the search numbers are for the first page only of Google. If you're on the second page reduce the search numbers by 90%. For the third page search numbers reduce it from the 2nd page numbers by 90% again. So even if you're indexed doesn't necessarily see significant numbers, you'll get all kinds of "weird" search terms, but unless you hit page you might not see significant traffic for it. See #2 below, only 10% reach page the second page. http://training.seobook.com/google-ranking-value
Remember that 450,000 searches per month is probably globally. If you search the local results, it probably drops to 50,000 searches a month which is still huge. Now I would recommend buying domain names that have a .com. It doesn't matter if it isn't an exact match, if your domain name contains a few keywords you should be good.
Whenever you select any keyword, there are two thing which you will look at, first traffic 2nd competition. Some keywords with 100,000 searches don't have much competition as compare to keyword which has only 1000 searches. So select keywords which have low competition and reasonable traffic.
I consider about 31,000 a lot on an exact match keyword... that is about 1,000 searches per day.. IMO.