Ranking vs Traffic

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by manchesterguy, Jun 20, 2007.

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    the purpose of SEO is to both build up SE ranking as well as drive more traffic.

    However, a high ranking doesnt guarantee lots of traffic. Any thoughts on this?
     
    manchesterguy, Jun 20, 2007 IP
  2. tim-buchalka

    tim-buchalka Active Member

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    Hi there,

    In my experience, generally if you have a high ranking, you will get a significant amount of traffic, but only if the keyword phrase(s) you are ranking well for are actually searched often by people.

    If only a small number of people are searching on those phrases you're not going to get much traffic unfortunately.

    Have you used a tool like worktracker.com or the free inventory.overture.com to get a rough idea on numbers of people who are using those keywords?

    Another way to tell would be to check out the number of PPC advertisers in that niche, only have a few (or none) would tell you that a) it's a potential goldmine, or b) Confirm that there is no substantial traffic (no one else is bothering with it).

    Another possibility is that the description you are using is just not enticing enough for people to want to click. Give people a compelling reason to click.

    Did you put a description in yourself on the page using something like:-

    <meta name="description" content="My compelling must click text here"/>

    If you didn't use the above tag, chances are that the search engine just grabbed a random part of your page for the description.

    I hope this gives you a few pointers.

    Cheers




    Tim Buchalka
     
    tim-buchalka, Jun 20, 2007 IP
  3. sweetfunny

    sweetfunny Banned

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    It does if you do keyword research properly.
     
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    Keyword rankings will definitely will give your site a huge traffic but it depends on searches per month of the keywords and the ranks of the keywords at major search engine.
     
    jumong79, Jun 21, 2007 IP
  5. WM7

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    We do SEO only for traffic building. Huge targeted traffic is key to successes. And we can drive this traffic freely only by ranking good search engines.
     
    WM7, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    zexy Guest

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    High ranking for a low traffic keywords won't bring you much traffic.
    That's pretty obvious and that's why webmasters try to rank high for a very popular, high traffic keywords.
     
    zexy, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    ranking is directly proportional o backlinks and Ranking brought the traffic on your site.
     
    sheena24, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    Its all about ranking for traffic, ranking for keywords that give you no traffic is just a waste of time.
     
    Vigor, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    To get good traffic, you must make people really like your site. Further higher rankings may not complement in getting traffic. SEs and social networking sites like digg,stumbleupon bring lots of traffic.
     
    olddocks, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    KC TAN Well-Known Member

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    Absolutely :)

    You can rank number 1 for earn easy money by doing difficult jobs but nobody search for it...
     
    KC TAN, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    [​IMG][​IMG][​IMG] Good example.
     
    hispalis, Jun 21, 2007 IP
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    search engine optimization is to get top ranking in SERP only for generating traffic for a website. so u have done good research on keyword selection and find relevent keyword for your website then there is more posssiblity to get more traffic and good ranking also.
    So if your site has good ranking then you can get more traffic for your site.
     
    erzanajones, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    High ranking can get you traffic !
    If you are having high ranking your keywords get greater search result and traffic!
     
    priyakochin, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    You can have PR9 on some useless topic, but if no one cares, you'll have no traffic
     
    pixelpusher, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    Helloooooo there

    If your keyword is adfkljlakfjdlskjf then SERP is useless. try to understand what i m trying to say.
     
    sakib000, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    For me we do SEO to get traffic and rankings of our site. so that if you has a good SERP Rankings your traffic is get boost...
     
    poksa, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    Don't forget to add a killer description (in the meta tags). If the description isn't good, I generally don't click on the site when I search on Google or other SE's. No time to waste.
     
    Franck S, Jun 22, 2007 IP
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    You mean titles? Because google does not consider metas nor shows that in results.

    Nonethless, writing good short titles is so important to grab people's attention. :)
     
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    I guess Ranking and traffic both are imp.
     
    seomaster007, Jul 9, 2007 IP
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    When you got the first ranking in your targeted keywords, your traffic will grow unless your targeted keywords has no searchers at all. When you only ranked in the top 10, maybe you will get nothing but if you are in the top 3, you could see the big differences in traffic.
     
    wokaka, Jul 9, 2007 IP