several factors come into play,but if yo8u have the wrong keywords,you will nevr get any se traffic
you need to google "
seo r/s"
http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.c...ffic-keywords/
I am going to PM you a couple of keywords that you can start building on,theres not a lot of searchs done on them but you "could" rank in the top 10 on google
#1 has a 178 searchs (in a 120 day period),has 63700 pages listed as found ,but ONLY apx 783 are really competing for rank on the keyword.I also noticed that the #1 and # 2 positions only have a few backlinks and are PR3 and Pr5 (By the way adsense pays$12.33 for this word)
With a little hard work you could rank very well for this one word.
#2 has 160 searchs 130,000 pages found,but again only apx 651 sites that are really interested in ranking for this word.I find that it has Pr4 pages
the top spot only has 7 backlinks.Easy pickings! it pays $17.96 per click
Just to show you a comparsion
the K.W.
mortgage rates has apx 3430 searchs daily,41.5 million pages found with 930,000 sites that are very serious about ranking for that word.backlinks range from thousands to several hundreds for the 1st few spots with PRs of 7
This is a 800 pound gorilla to try and beat... no way
I mined this data from the www
Hope this gets you started