Along with day 7′s data, we went on to collect a little bit more information about traffic. We used Google Trends and a phrase with known traffic to compare our keyword phrases to the traffic numbers we get in Wordtracker. Is the Wordtracker traffic real? We can check if we have a phrase with a known amount of daily traffic that’s pretty steady.
Known phrase goes first, comma, your keyword phrase in quote marks goes second.
Sometimes Wordtracker and Google Trends agree. Often they don’t agree. I’m finding that GTrends often comes in with lower traffic than WT, but not always. With my own phrases I’ve gotten numbers like 80/day in WT and <20/day in GT. If I used a keyword phrase that gave me these results, I probably wouldn't get much traffic or business. Sometimes I've gotten 50-70 points higher on GT than on WT. You want Google traffic, so if GT is nearly non-existent you need to scratch that one and go on to another phrase.
Good traffic is 100 visits/day or more on both GT and WT. Acceptable is at least 50 visits/day or more on both. One may give 50 while the other gives 80 or so. That’s great!
