Comments on: How to Predict Traffic from Google

By: executive coaching

executive coaching — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:37:10 +0000

This is a very good article with many good tips, thank you for that – now I am wiser in this subject.

By: mikemarketing1

mikemarketing1 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:57:05 +0000

This is a very interesting post and a problem that all SEO people have struggled with.

I've personally used several tools to try to get an understanding of this. One that I find tto have a lot of value is market samurai. It's slick, fast and intuitive.

I was looking closely at the numbers from your screenshot example and the numbers didn't add up for me. I could very possible be missing something. Here is an example of what I mean.

Day 1 had about 5% of the traffic for that month, which results in about 125K searches. At position 7, you stated that you received 250 hits, which calculated to around 20%. A couple things with this:

1. 20% of 125K is 25K
2. 20% of all traffic for position #7 seems way too high. Everything i've read and experienced has shown postion #7 to be around 2-3%.

Could the percentage be two decimal points off or am I missing something incredibly obvious?

Thanks,

Mike

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By: Arrow SEO

Arrow SEO — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:19:59 +0000

Wow. This is great. Thanks Shane.

By: Sascha

Sascha — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:26:38 +0000

Perfect timing. Was just sitting over an excel sheet (well actually it’s numbers) myself. Great input. Thx a lot.

By: Claire Jarrett

Claire Jarrett — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:38:55 +0000

Wow, a real use for a Pivot Table :-) I will have a go, thanks for this.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:43:25 +0000

@Michael – Good point will give that a try

@Onerab – it was correct within around +/- 2% on some of the live data that I used to test it with.

@Alex – I think i must have been having a blind day when I missed the link on that. Thanks :)

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:32:06 +0000

Nice article. Well put together.

Have been doing this for some time – with some additional steps (naturally).

PS. Yes you *can* download Google Insights -> top right hand corner “Download as CSV”.

peace. alex

By: Onerab

Onerab — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:49:04 +0000

Very interesting article. Have you tried to verify the estimated traffic with the actual traffic and if so, how close are they?

By: Michael Thomson

Michael Thomson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:47:24 +0000

Nice article Shane. Used a very similar technique myself.

Once thing, you may wish to consider changing “Match Type” to “Exact” in GAKT – I always find “Broad” artificially inflates the numbers.