Landon Key posted this on 03.13.2008 at 07:57 AM with a worthy factor of 1
Before investing time and effort in search rankings, and even before setting client expectations, it makes sense to gather whatever intelligence you can about the keywords you'd like to rank for. SEOs and webmasters have few reliable sources of information about the relationship between rankings and traffic. But Wikipedia's traffic stats can help, offering some surprisingly detailed data.
http://searchengineland.com/080312-081353.php