Something wrong With Google Traffic???

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by jophan, Dec 18, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hello everybody,

    I have again this strange problem where I already have
    decent rankings for a competitve keyword ("option trading" #9)
    but get only scant traffic (about 20 from google).

    For this keyword the overture tool shows me almost 100,000
    searches every month. And that on Yahoo! Google should have
    much more than this.

    But only 20 visitors??? And this 20 comes from different keyword phrases!
    Do I understand something wrong or what?
    I mean, ok lets subtract a generous 50% from this traffic because
    of webmaster queries. We still have 50,000 impressions. And I get
    about (20/50,000) = 0,04% of that cake?

    My website is: http://www.1stmoneyopportunities.com

    Please illuminate me :confused:

    Thanks
     
    jophan, Dec 18, 2007 IP
  2. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    #2
    You are in direct competition with the title and snippets for everything else on that results page - and I don't think that something that straight off tells you it's a link to get an e-book is very attractive, Plus, if people are clicking on the other links, and finding what they want, they just won't go back to the search page to find another link.
     
    magda, Dec 18, 2007 IP
  3. jophan

    jophan Active Member

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    #3
    both of your arguments are ok, but please consider again
    the volume of the traffic. It cannot be that bad with my CTR!
     
    jophan, Dec 18, 2007 IP
  4. SunDevil

    SunDevil Peon

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    The overture tool shows you results for the keyword option trading..............You are ranking for the keyword"option trading.....

    HUGE DIFFERENCE

    my guess is you typed "option trading" into the overture tool....and the tool (By Defualt) discarded the ""'s


    I would add a few hard core inbound links,,,,wait a few weeks/months and yuo should see a huge jump.

    PM for link finding details
     
    SunDevil, Dec 18, 2007 IP
  5. ninjashoes

    ninjashoes Well-Known Member

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    #5
    do you have a good meta description when your site gets pulled up on serps?

    is it overly generic?
     
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  6. jophan

    jophan Active Member

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    option trading or option tradings you mean? it's usual that people
    dont type the plural of this word, if I have understood you correctly.
     
    jophan, Dec 19, 2007 IP