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All feedback is welcome.
Thank you.
However I only use teh shortest subscription available, a years hardcore!
How do you use it as a site development tool....I'm in the process of laying out a site and want to make sure i do everythingn to make it be seen.
Thanks,
Thanks.
I've used it and it was helpful.
I am on a limited budget
Anytime I see comments like this, it is usually due to a lack of planning and vision. Budget limitations should be restrictive of $10,000 purchase, not a $250.00 one. Get your vision down on paper, know what you want, and what your expected ROI will be, and you will have a better grasp of what you want.
Cheers,
CaboWabo
1. For getting a good list of keywords related to my topic, I think it is great.
2. However, I have serious doubts as to its accuracy regarding its numbers. For each keyword, it tells you, among other things:
(a) How many times it appeared in their database over the past 120 days, and:
(b) How many times it predicts the keyword will be searched for in all major SE's in next 24 hours.
Well, I compared its results to the stats of my own website, and found that WT's numbers were so off as to be totally useless. (WT themselves admit that their numbers are based on sampling and extrapolation. Too bad they don't give a margin of error!)
Has anyone had similar experiences?
As far as whether it's worth it for you to pay the $250, I would ask myself how often I'd see myself using it? At $7.50 for a daily membership, you could use it 20 times throughout the year and that would be far less than $250. So I guess you need to figure out whether you need it ongoing or just sporadically. Hope that helps.
I made the decision to purchase WT for the year and have been using it pretty regularly. I am happy with the results...now I just have to wait for my efforts to kick in! :-)
A word of advice though, use several keyword tools at once when you are doing your research. As mentioned earlier WT (Along with most other keyword tools) can have a rather large margin of error. If you compare the same keywords in several different tools it will be easier to spot the skewed results.
Fribs
I am looking for a tool that can provide some or all of the features below:
- Ability to check where my site ranks on main SEs for a specific search term.
So, I enter BLUE WIDGETS, then it will show " you are 3rd on google, 5th on Yahoo, etc.."
- Ability to check what keywords are generating more traffic to my competitors.
- Ability to check what sites are generating more traffic to my competitors.
The best of all, would be a tool that would test scenarios for changes on my SEO strategy. Let's say I used to say BLUE WIDGET and want to change DISCOUNT WIDGET, then program would show me the expected trend.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot
have a look at:
comsore
hitwise
keyworddiscovery
each tool covers the referral parts (search term and site referrals), KD covers the SEO tracking to an extent and PPC bid rankings at present.
Cheers
David
The best keyword tool?
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However, I have plowed through and found a nice keyword phrase that has a a +19200 kei ranking. I also found a good one with a +539 ranking.
kei ranking
This is an overly simplistic measure. It would be great if life and search were this easy, but they're not. Again, it's a rough indicator with a very nice interface, but don't depend on it.
It's important to think of that with any keyword tool. If the Overture tool is to be trusted then you have to consider the Yahoo audience. With WT it's the Dogpile/Metacrawler audience. As much as I like Keyword Discovery I hate that they don't disclose the sources of their data, for all I know it's compiling searches from loads of crappy engines that the average user doesn't really use.
--Illah
Cheers
David
I did some checking and found that many searches I did on WT a year or so ago now come up with a much smaller search count than they did then. I mean significantly less.
However, I still find WT useful - especially since I'm used to it. However, am trying out Keyword Discovery and like it pretty well. If I could justify the expense, I'd subscribe to both.
Cheers
David
Getting and adwords account and using it's traffic estimator is, IMO one of the best tools out there, and aside from a 5 dollar setup fee it's practically free.
Aside form getting a good idea of traffic to expect you can also find out how much people in your niche are spending to get traffic for that keyword. This is a very important thing to know if you are planning to monetize your site.
Plus if you are getting into webmastery you are probably going to need an adwords account sooner of later anyway.
The overture tool is good too, though slower and not as in-depth.
That KEI thingy is pretty easy to simulate if it is important to you, really I don't think many people are very confident in it. There are important factors it doesn't take into consideration.
That KEI thingy is pretty easy to simulate if it is important to you, really I don't think many people are very confident in it. There are important factors it doesn't take into consideration.
