Ok, for those of you who have managed to get a number one spot for your keyword in the search engines, how does the traffic correlate to traffic estimators, e.g wordtracker/digitalpoint etc. My own opinion is that these programs grossly over estimate traffic or web surfers are no longer clicking on the first website.

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same here

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Well wordtracker data never changed for almost a year, so this one is out to lunch. Ouverture will combine a lot of searches like plurials and singular... so the numbers are usually a combination of many keyphrases.

I would be unhappy paying £140 (cant remember exact price) for wordtracker when the results are not kept up to date.

I know google adwords traffic estimator would be the best but I do not know what click through rate they use, does anyone know - 10%?

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I'm talking about the free data found on www.digitalpoint.com. Never paid for wordtracker.

I don't think you're going to see accurate data-free or paid.

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these tools are quite a good guage of traffic.
your site must have been overlooked by your visitors..

This is seen in all my other sites which I have top rankings for, basically they all seem to get about 5-10% of what estimators predict.

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I know I read some ware that wordtracker has access to what has been searched for on a few search engens and they total about 7% of the market. I thank that they est. on the others from this data based on market shares.

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I also have concerns about Wordtracker. After establishing top rankings for several similar keyword phrases, I'm not seeing anything near the traffic it estimates.