Okay I typed "tips" into the overture tool and it said the term "barbecue grilling tips" gets 50,000+ monthly searches. This phrase has: 1,320,000 matches on google 258 exact matches on google So I wrote an article and submitted it to ezinearticle.com. My article is now #9 for the phrase barbecue grilling tips and #1 for the phrase in quotes. It has been there for a month and that ezine article has been viewed a whopping... 145 times! How can being #1 and #9 on google for a phrase that allegedly gets 50,000+ monthly searches onle result in 145 views? Can someone help, I thought I was onto something.
Im pretty sure. I also heard that a phrase should get 5-8 times more google searches for a particular phrase than it does on overture.
It shows many surprising results I too did a similar mistake lol but bought a new domain and worked on it to find that i wasted money and time!
Being #1 in quotes means nothing, hardly any users search using quotes There's a massive difference in traffic between a top three ranking and anything below that.
Well I am #9 for the phrase without quotes. I would think I would get more than 145 of the 50,000+ searches/month.
I usually assume that overture is about a factor of 10 off (not w/ any proof but it seems to work better w/ my overall assumptions and calculations). So when you see 50k think more along the lines of 500k... This is not proof, but just realize that overture is just a nice tool to help you with other keywords you may not realize, not necessarily meant to show you how much traffic a keyword will send your way... for example if you were to optimize for "barbecue grill" w/ an overture of 50k. Then you found in overture that "barbecue grill recipes" also had an overture of 35k, then you could optimize for both, and get more traffic from one common theme... That's mainly how i use the tool, to help me find keywords I normally wouldn't think of using.
Oh and also #9 is very far down the line, so if the first 8 are relevant then you may only get 150 results... and keep in mind overture is per month results... How long has your site been up?
Ladies and Gentlemen.... Did Overture promise you that if it reads 50,000+ gonna guarantee 50,000 searches next month? Did they also guarantee you that there will be 50,000 searches in google? I think you should have some of your own initiative to know that those stats can only be used as a guideline. Not guaranteed results. 145 views is better than 10 in a month. Morever your result is at #9.. which is probably about 20-40% of the real traffic ( which we dun know ) that google has... Whats worse is, you don't even know if it is from SEs, or is it from surfer on ezine...