W0RLDS BEST SE0 (change 0's for o's) Anyone else on DP on page 1 of Google for that search by any chance? With or without the ' in World's If so I will PM you the reason why I ask after you reply.
It's a trick question isn't it? - 'worlds best seo' gets no search volume, so if you were the best seo in the world, you wouldn't bother with it.
It gets searched multple times a day according to Google alerts magda. Not a vast amount but a fair few if you we're only hoping for 1 or 2 conversions ever from such a term or other simlar ones. I have many search terms on Google Alert that others tell me don't get searched yet I have the evidence daily in my inbox. But anyway that's not the point and no it's not a trick question it's in regards to an ebook plan.
Google alerts don't count how many times a keyword is searched for - just where it's appeared. According to Google adwords keywords tool it gets no search volume - and it's not a perfect tool, but the fact that you are using a tool that doesn't count searches to evaluate keyword popularity is a bit odd, to say the least. and - in relation to another thread - 'commission a cartoonist' likewise has no discernable search volume. I can see why you always put a zero instead of o, though - a thread on digitalpoint for these uncompetitive terms could be danger of outranking you Edit - this is Google's explanation of Alerts - http://www.google.com/support/alerts/?hl=en#q1 "A 'Web' alert is an email aggregate of the latest web pages that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top twenty results of your Google Web search." It's what's appearing in serps for your keyword - nothing to do with whether it's being searched for
It's not just digital point it's many places - I never type my search terms on ohers sites for that very reason. The only forum I don't do this is my own (for obvious reasons). However Google Alerts are to tell you when someone has searched that term I have a number of them on alert just for study purposes. http://www.google.com/alerts For example I have my name on alerts and so I know how many times a day it gets searched for and it is usually mutiple times a day. The cartoonist search term you mentioned is coveted by cartoonists only so it matters not if only half a dozen people a day ever search it Jamie Sale (for example) after I helped him out to get on page 1 found a significant increase in ordes from clients It's a matter of quality not quantity when it comes to such things magda and I am not using it to evaluate popularity dude as popularity is not what is relevant for such terms it is as I said quality not quantity that counts and popularity for such things is not even a factor when it comes to such specialised skills like Cartooning. Also I get the impression the Google search terms thing only applies to Google.com and not .co.uk though I am still trying to prove whether this is so or not.
No - Google Alerts do NOT tell you when a term has been searched for - you are just completely wrong on this. Read the explanation of Google Alerts in the link I posted - where in that does it even imply that it has anything to do with the frequency or number of searches. I absolutely agree with you on the value of close targeting - a long-tail term that gets little search volume may well be the one that converts best - but the fact that you don't know what tools to use to find this out is a very worrying trait in someone who is charging clients for seo services.
Hmm that's weird - have they changed that at some point as when I signed up to Google Alerts the first time it said I would receive alerts when a search was made on a search term. So it likes like you are right magda. Did they change that do you know as if I had read what it does now I would have likely not put certain terms on alert as the info would be relatively irrelevant to me and virtually useless. But like I said that's not what I was using that for anyway. I know what tools to use "like analytics" for example but have the distinct impression that something doesn't add up and so have a suspicion that it is only Google.com that is being monitored for analytics. Would be interested in seeing your evidence to the contrary of that suspicion though.
Just thought I should butt in just to confirm that Google Alerts does not give you any sort of indication in regards to how many searches a term gets. You can practically use any single term, and you will get alerts for it - that definitely doesn't mean that it actually gets any searches. Furthermore, Google Alerts is also very broad - if you use the keyphrase "i want to build a house", it will show you a few relevant alerts but it won't actually tell you how many people actually search for that exact keyphase, and that latter info is what you should be trying to figure out. Try the adwords keyword tool or wordtracker That's some great thinking - the thought never crossed my mind, but as soon as I read your reply I was sure that it was the "right" answer Couldn't figure out where the OP was going with it - but still.
Spycraft we already established that Google Alerts either no longer gives search query emails or that something changed at some point - but when I first used it that was the impression that was given so keep up dude
Fair enough. To answer your next question then - If by "like analytics", you are referring to Google Analytics, then no, it doesn't only count Google.com. It counts everything. How did you get that suspicion? What doesn't add up? How could it count only Google.com - do you mean only traffic from searches at Google.com?
Reason for that was people from the US I found kept referring to search terms that we're UK spellings saying that there we're no searches when I knew darned well there was. I even tested it by searching a certain term over and over again for over two weeks (and I mean every spare minute I got and then posted mentioning the term and again 2 people who I saw we're from the US by their location posted that there we're zero searches on the term I knew this wasn't true because I had searched it myself a few hunred times over the couple of week or so period and someone else was bound to have sesarched it to so this lead to me suspecting the results we're only coming from Google.com searches and not from the likes of Google.co.uk It was the only thing I could come up with as a possible answer as to why the hundreds of searches I made didn't show up at all.
You seem very confused about what tools you're using to give you information. Google Analytics won't tell you search volumes either. It doesn't measure searches, it measures traffic - it shows pageviews and visits - but not external searches.
I never said I used anayltics to see that I was just using the drop down thing on Google among other things including the obvious