WordTracker accurate?

i have been using word tracker for my keywords, and i havae managed to get on the first page of google for one of them and 1st and second for my other ones, how ever word tracker estimates one of my keywords has 500 searches a day another 100 and another a little under 100. the thing is though im not recieving hardly any of this traffic so my question is is word tracker accurate in how many searched a keyword gets a day, and would i have to be the number 1 search result to benefit?

thanks.

 

This is a question I've battled with myself, and I've used a lot of the keyword tools out there. Nothing, from any of them have suggested to me that the search numbers are at all accurate. I have emailed people at those companies asking them how they tabulate their numbers, but nobody give much of an answer.

This doesn't mean that this information is completely worthless though. It just means that data for the same keyword should be gathered from several sources, and compared. It's a pain, things seemed so much easier when I was naive.

So basically, don't just accept what these tools tell you. don't pin all your business goals on these numbers. and use some solid old-school business strategies to become successful.

 

ok thanks weapon x. il check other sources out.

 

To get much of the traffic you will need to be top 3. Of course #1 almost always gets the most traffic. You also have to ensure that your page titles and descriptions are compelling enough for people to click on it.

For keyword research, as weapon-x said you should check a few sources if you want more accurate numbers. Most keyword tools are best used to compare the volume of one keyword to another. You don't really need to know the exact number, as long as you know which keywords get more traffic than others.

I rather doubt that wordtracker is completely accurate. I don't see how they could have access to the those search engine stats.

 

WT and KD are not accurate for long tail keyowrds and there deviation can be very high in worst cases. I think you may just got the worst case scenario.

 

i havent gone after long tail keywords though ive gone for the top keywords

 

I thinks its not so accurate..

 

It's not accurate at all, data is sourced from meta search engines.

 

Google Adwords tool is also showing the same data on monthly basis. Why don't you use google's tool. It is more accurate than wordtracker.
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

--Ashish

 

I actually read that sometimes marketers can throw off wordtracker results as they are the ones for certain keywords searching for the term so it skews the results - go figure!