Standalone Traffic Estimator Tool

In the "tools" section of Adwords

[stuntdubl]

I guess I don't go under the "tools" tab all that often, but this was the first time I had noticed this, and it says "new" next to it. I didn't see any posts hear on it, so I'm assuming it's relatively new.

Didn't play with it much yet, but it is esentially a standalone way to estimate traffic levels, and download as a .csv. Looks like this will come in pretty handy, and comparable to the O search volume tool which I think many SEO's use on a daily basis. It is a bit more cumbersome, but also details traffic levels based on the CPC that you input.

Traffic Estimator [adwords.google.com]**Looks like you will have to be logged into your Adwords account in order to view this.

<added>Okay, I did find a month old thread [webmasterworld.com]with this now</added>

[eWhisper]

Origional Post on the topic:
[webmasterworld.com...]

The estimates for Nation Wide (and based on a 2% CTR) aren't too bad. Once you add a max CPC into the equation, the tools starts to get a little off, but at least its a benchmark to start with.

If you start getting into regional targeting, the tools seems to be way off for a lot of queries.