Overture- Search Term Suggestion Tool

[rhodopsin]

Overture- Search Term Suggestion Tool

Where does overture get its data from on the frequency of search terms?

Which search engines does it consider? Google?

[ogletree]

Yahoo, MSN, and several other partners. It has nothing to do with Google. That tool is worthless. The data is so scewed it's not funny. Word Tracker is much better. If you will notice that a lot of the times they don't even show the right kw order they just show a whole phrase in alphabetical order. They also combine singulers and plurals and even brodmatch in the numbers. I have had terms get tons of hits on my site and OV does not even show it getting hits. There is no way to use those number against real life. At least with WT you can compare one word with another. Those tools are just for research not for knowing how many times a term is typed in.

[sem4u]

I wouldn't say that the Overture suggestion tool is worthless, but I would definitely compare the figures with WordTracker, especially to the order of keywords and to identify singular vs plural searches.

The Google suggestion tool does not have figures but the phrases are listed in order of searches (highest first). If you are in the UK the Espotting tool can also be useful, but some of the quoted search figures there can seem very big indeed.