How to get Traffic to your site
Analysis of Search
Engines
by getting a good listing in the search engines, and being in
the top ten results for specific topics you stand a good chance of getting traffic
through them. But traffic from search engines depends on how many people are searching
for that particular phrase.
Search for your keywords on 7search.com
Do it now. Click on the link and it opens in another window. This is your
demand for the keyword.
Now click on Altavista
and search for the same keyword (put it in ""). You need to see how
many pages come up. This is the supply.
Now you need to make a chart:
(information obtained 10/12/00)
| Keyword | Bid to become #1 | Estimated
Monthly Searches | Pages Found on Altavista |
| 1. christmas trees | $0.02 | 244 | 50,593 |
| 2. artificial christmas trees | $0.02 | 32
| 2,957 |
| 3. aluminum christmas
trees | $0.02 | 17 | 42 |
| 4. FIBER OPTIC CHRISTMAS TREES | $0.01 | 13
| 2 |
| 5. decorating christmas trees
| $0.01 | 10 | 175 |
| 6. decorated christmas trees | $0.01 |
7 | 650 |
| 7. balsam fir christmas
trees | $0.01 | 7 | 107 |
| 8. Noble fir christmas trees | $0.01 |
4 | 10 |
| 9. christmas trees in
north carolina | $0.01 | 4 | 17 |
| 10. fake christmas trees | $0.01 | 4
| 75 |
| 11. christmas trees australia
| $0.01 | 3 | 0 |
There's some interesting information that can be gathered from using
this approach. Firstly 7search.com has shown you other related keywords.
You can calculate a ratio of demand/supply.
| Keyword | Ratio of Demand Supply |
| 1. christmas trees | 0.0048 |
| 2. artificial christmas trees | 0.0108 |
| 3. aluminum christmas trees | 0.4047 |
| 4. FIBER OPTIC CHRISTMAS TREES | 6.5 |
| 5. decorating christmas trees | 0.0571 |
| 6. decorated christmas trees | 0.0107 |
| 7. balsam fir christmas trees | 0.0654
|
| 8. Noble fir christmas trees |
0.4 |
| 9. christmas trees in north carolina | 0.2352 |
| 10. fake christmas trees | 0.0533 |
| 11. christmas trees australia | 3* |
* 3/0 is silly, so lets say 3/1,
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