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Old 10-14-2003, 06:24 AM Is Google Traffic Worth It?
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I know it's worth it, but I wanted to start a, sort of, motivation thread for all us peons and newbies that are struggling every day with PageRank, keywords, titles, headings, density, repetition, percentages, quanity and quality content, outgoing links, incoming links, ect ect.

What is the reward of finally making it to the top SERPs in terms of traffic?

I don't get any traffic from Google searches because my site is ranked #450 in the only keyword that matters for my site "mail order brides". "Mail order brides" is searched on Google 1,000 times every day and I get zero of them.

I'm hoping that some of you that have sites/pages with top ten or top twenty SERP could give us some sort of idea how many visitors that results in.

I know "it depends", yet it must be possible for you folks to give us some idea.



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Old 10-14-2003, 10:16 AM
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I think Google is certainly worth it. I'm in the top 5 or 10 for a number of search terms and my main site (Free Webmater Help) got the following referrer numbers last month:
1 www.google.com 11217
2 search.yahoo.com 1918
3 www.google.ca 968
4 www.google.com.au 678
5 www.google.co.uk 667
6 www.google.co.in 583
7 www.google.de 562
8 www.google.nl 543
9 www.bigwebmaster.com 330
10 www.google.fr 311
11 search.msn.com 227
12 www.google.be 199
13 www.google.fi 184
14 www.google.com.my 176
15 www.google.it 165
16 www.thefreecountry.com 155
17 www.google.com.br 141
18 www.google.dk 130
19 www.altavista.com 127
20 www.webmaster-talk.com 117
21 www.google.ch 108
22 www.google.com.sg 104
23 www.google.co.nz 104
24 www.google.com.hk 90
25 ebookdirectory.com 80

So, yes. Google is quite important to my site!
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Old 10-14-2003, 11:36 AM
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Yes, Google Traffic are more targetted (think conversion)
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Old 10-14-2003, 12:52 PM
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Is Google traffic worth it? In a word, hell yes! Sorry, I guess that was two words
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Old 10-14-2003, 04:29 PM
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Google page rank?

Read this article

http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html

Let me tell you that many people are cheating when it comes to google page rank.

The page rank is kind of faulty but works for honest people. I have seen many sites on the web have top keywords because they cheat.

Google needs a new algorithm

Google traffic is well worth it.
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Old 10-15-2003, 06:56 AM
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david, thank you for your response.


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Old 10-15-2003, 10:59 AM
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Yes, Google is defenitly worth it. I don't worry to much about pageranks, but all the rest I do. Actually most of my traffic comes from word of mouth and google. It's a pain in the butt, but it's worth it to take the time and prepare your pages for google.

Also, alot of sites I get traffic from also use google's search system into their pages.

If your rank is 450 on a page, then your keywords are way to broad. You shoudl narrow them down. For example, if you sell moped bikes in Some City, North Carolina, instead of putting "bikes" or "mopeds" in your keywords, use "moped bikes", "north carolina bikes", "some city moped bikes" instead.

It may seem like you will get less traffic this way, but actually broad words like "mopeds" and "bikes", you are competing with literlly millions of webpage from around the world that have to do with mopeds and bikes. So instead, narrow it down by getting as specific as possible.

Next, watch your stats for the following months to get an idea of what keywords people are using to get to your pages, etc. This will help you adjust your keywords even further.

Hope this helps,
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Old 10-22-2003, 04:24 AM
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David,

1 www.google.com 11217

Do you know how many time that particular keyword/phrase was searched on Google? In other words, you got 11,217 clicks from how many searches?

Just wondering

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Old 10-28-2003, 04:26 AM
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I'm afraid I don't have that data. That is a cumulative total of quite a number of keywords, and Google don't publish data for number of searches by keyword, so there's not much more I can tell from that.
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