First off, my apologies if anyone thinks this is in the wrong forum, I looked at the others and thought this forum would be the best fit. Anyways, we bought a domain that is comprised of, according to Google Adwords, a set of moderately competitive keywords. For simplicities & privacy sake, let's just say the set of keywords is "mechanical robots" and the domain we bought is mechanicalrobots.com. According to Google Adwords, the keyword set we're going after gets around 120,000 search queries per month. We've had a placeholder homepage on mechanicalrobots.com complete with meta keywords, description and title along with keyword rich paragraphs throughout the page for about 7 weeks now (submitted the site to all the search engines at this time). The placeholder page is to get the site in the search engines and being indexed while we are working on building the storefront and officially launch the site. Google has begun to crawl this site and about two weeks ago, we noticed that we're already on the second page (#12 to be precise). We've been keeping a steady eye on this and we've stayed on page two the whole time. However, I'm looking at our Google Analytics for that site and I barely see any traffic coming in (only a few visits per day). So, what does this 120,000 actually mean? We'd expect having this many search queries per month on average that being #12 in the list for a couple weeks that we'd get a lot more than 5 or visits a day. We have a few other domains that we're considering buying, but we're trying to figure out what gives here first... Thanks!
It means that in 1 month 120,000 searches are made for that particular keyword phrase, that averages to 4000 a day, if you are only getting 5 visits or so a day you definitely aren't drawing the traffic in, obviously. There is a huge difference between ranking on the 1st page of google results or on the 2nd page, and your traffic is attesting to that. To get the natural traffic you need quality inbound links with the anchor text being your targeted keyword phrase. The more of those quality links the higher listing you'll get and the more visitors you'll attract. Also, if you haven't optimized your meta description do so, more so for the visitor than the search engine spider, because after all, no one is going to click a link unless they are genuinely interested in what the site has to offer.
Sorry, I can't agree with you. Just now I have finished searching for the term "mechanical robots" in Google, but didn't get ur site on 2nd page, clear to say that ur site is not ranked well. Although you have authority domain mechanicalrobots.com. If you look at Google strategy then you would learn the basic that no parked-domain can rank better in SERP, google hates parked domains. Instead placing parked domain, build and optimize ur site, create good content and you will naturally get decent traffic.
Tumikanton, read the whole post before offering useless crap, please. The site has nothing to do with mechanical robots.