Keywords You Thought Were Hot But Were Not

I think “casino bonus(es)” is not that bad. People searching for that may be looking for casinos with good bonuses, not only no deposit but also match bonuses. They may be willing to play. They may be looking to extend, leverage their deposit. That’s fine.

The problem is when people search for “no deposit xxx”. That people are not looking to play in general. They are determined. They are determined to not risking any money.

Worse than that are keywords like “new no deposit casinos…”. People looking for that have played in almost all no deposit casinos without making any deposit at all. They’re adding to their search the word “new” because they know they tried almost all no deposit casinos and want to find any new opportunity.

Other bad words are “instant no deposit….”. People searching for that are desperate not only to not risking any money but also to play right now.

I’m not willing to add new no deposit casinos, unless the casino has something more to catch the player attention and to make him deposit.

About other keywords, it seems to me that casino reviews does not attract any reasonable traffic from msn. Don’t know how this keyword is doing on google/yahoo.

One interesting thing is, almost all casinos I have at my websites have bonuses of at least 100% and I also have some with no deposit bonuses. My first real depositing player, played at Cherry Casino, and this casino only offers 30% match. That’s one of the worst bonus offers I have at my sites. Anyway the player choose that casino to make the deposit. Not all people are looking for bigggggg bonuses. That’s good.

Maybe I phrased that post wrong, but I am on the first page of yahoo and #2 on msn for “casino bonuses” and get no traffic from it. None. I’m not joking.

Unless my stats are leaving things out…

I have stick by what i said, about “casino bonuses” being a dud.

As far as “free” goes, I have over 1,000 page views daily for the free games on my site alone, attracted by phrases with free in it – and although I’m making a darn good income, I suspect not a lot of it is coming from those free players, so I definitely agree with everyone on that!

The overture keyword tracker is heavily influenced by webmasters searching to check keyword bids and how high they rank. The higher the perceived monetary value of a keyword, the higher the inacurracy of the tool. It gives a good idea of what keywords to target but is basically useless otherwise. We dont need the tool to guess that poker is popular, but it really wont give us any useful information beyond that.

I have some top 3 rankings for keywords that apparently get over 1000 searches a day, yet I fail to receive 10 clicks a day.

That’s the thing, you don’t!

‘online internet casino’ is supposed to bring in 200+ visitors a day. I didn’t even notice a traffic increase.

Just an update, currently #1 on MSN for ‘Best Online Casino Reviews’ and receiving little to no traffic. That was expected however.

Hi,
This is a great thread! I am currently trying to pick a few good phrases to optimize for. I can look on overture and see how many searches were done for a certain term, but how do you know if it will be a dud or not!?
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Heather

At one time I was ranking #1 on Google for:

• internet casino gambling
• online internet casino

Nothing flash in terms of traffic.

Was also ranking top10 in Google for:

• online casino gambling
• internet casino

I’m not sure if I just wasn’t ranking high enough, or if the keywords didn’t get enough traffic. But I also didn’t notice much traffic from these two terms.

Currently attempting to get rankings for:

• online casino reviews
• best online casino

Will post again if any of the engines look kindly on me for these two.