Hi all No pun intended in the title of this thread! Aside from setting up meta tags on my old site years ago I am pretty new to this keywords thing. I've just had a look at the keyword analysis tool here at Digital Point and put in three of my main keywords (one after the other) searching both the UK and US markets. I was delighted to see that people are actually searching for these terms (which is I guess a good thing for my site - people are interested in this topic!). Plus from this I could see very specific topics people are searching for which has given me some good ideas for articles to write. However - I was curious to compare to other topics. I punched in "make money online" and discovered that this phrase which I thought would be massively more popular than ones related to my site are was pretty much equal at the top of the lists. So my question is around this:- Considering the multitude of money making sites on the net and the huge amount of traffic they seem to get do you think that the keyword analysis has some kind of equation in this? I guess what I'm trying to say is that if as money people are searching for my top keywords as 'make money online' is it feasible to think that I could work towards generating the same kind of traffic some of these sites seem to generate? Obviously I'm aware that people come for the content so I'm striving to make my content very useful for my visitors. I'm just very curious...
If two keyword phrases generate similar search volumes then you should get about the same amount of traffic when targeting each phrase. To be sure of the real traffic volume, pay for clicks on whichever search engine you're targeting. If you're targeting Google then pay to be in the top 8 positions for that keyphrase and look at your impressions. Just write really bad untargeted ads so you don't incur any clicks that you don't want. You just want to see the number of impressions.