Originally Posted by chucklesnorris

Just to make sure, you'll have to look at the [exact] "phrase" & broad matches.

For example:

in thongs gets 2,240,000 searches a month globally on Google.
But, only 46 people search for exactly: in thongs

Meaning, people are searching for things like girls in thongs, men in thongs, babes in thongs, etc etc. My point is just to make sure the keyword you're thinking about buying as a .com is showing those search #'s for [exact] match. High "phrase matches" in a lot of cases will be sufficient, but like in the above example I gave it would not be.

I'd then suggest looking at your competitor's backlinks to see if they've optimized for that spot. If there's a lot of competition it will be difficult.

To answer your question about getting 33,000 searches and what that will equate to in actual clicks - I'm #1 for a handful of search terms over 10,000 a month and I get maybe 2,000 clicks. It will depend on if there's anyone advertising on Google Adwords for Search, too. Anyways, good luck.