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This is pretty major. Odd how the timing is exactly when Yahoo finally kills their Overture tool once and for all :-)
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I have to wonder about it's accuracy though because i looked the number for an exact phrase that I rank number 2 for and apparently it should receive on average about 53 queries per day, I only get about 2-5 clicks per day for that exact phrase.
At an early glance, my account data is lower in many places, but in a few places it matches almost exactly.
Don't forget to take into account any negative keywords, dayparting, or other filters you may have in place. The more filters you have, the smaller percentage of total queries you will show up for.
This is really going to hurt some of the kw software/website companies.
What a great tool.
Is overture retired and taken offline? - I can't remember as never used it for a long long time :)
The figures are also not just from google - but include search partners if I read it correctly and therefore numerous other sources aggregated together and providing something very useful for people who are already established and who can work at optimizing things.
This is incredible!
This is really going to hurt some of the kw software/website companies.What a great tool.
Yeah - it does make it a very useful resource, although I do not know whether Google have any API for this where such websites would be able to provide access to the searches within their own sites for comparison etc.
I suspect that searches are now going to be less accurate when everyone starts playing with the keyword tool - I would think it more wise if Google had made it display numbers only when people had logged into their adwords account - and therefore discount any 'webmaster queries' from the actual figures.
[edited by: Ganceann at 6:19 pm (utc) on July 11, 2008]
I would think it more wise if Google had made it display numbers only when people had logged into their adwords account - and therefore discount any 'webmaster queries' from the actual figures.
AdWords people aren't the only ones using this by a long shot.
AdWords people aren't the only ones using this by a long shot.
@Netmeg - yeah, I am fully aware that it will not only be adwords people who use it, but it would make more sense if Google had required a valid adsense account to use the service. It may limit some people from using it and at the same time increase the adwords subscription database (even if they were not actually spending much money, it adds another benefit of having a valid adwords account).
The information on here greatly varies from that on Google Trends (where the info supposedly only comes from Google searches)
The involvement of the search network means that A LOT of the data here could be due to MFA sites that still accrue impressions even though you never searched for anything.
As far as I can tell I can't trust this data much when it comes to determining actual type-in search volume.