Hey guys I just found out the google adword tool gives you the search volume in numbers. I think this is great and really helpful. So I just wanted to let you guys know. Sorry if everyone already knew it might just be news for me becuase I've been on vacation for a month. Speaking of KeyWord Research has anyone tried Mirco Niche Finder?
Yeah I posted this a few weeks back but it is very cool, especially for cheap pricks like me who are too tight to pay for Word Tracker. I've tried Micro Niche Finder, nothing really mind blowing. I actually prefer Niche Inspector.
Most Keywords Research Tools: Google keyword suggestion tool Keyworddiscovery Wordtracker seobook Good keyword
They just added support for this in the latest update to Adwords Analyzer. I wonder why Google with held this information before.
Google's estimated search volume can be wack sometimes so I don't trust it to heavily. Additionally, their traffic estimator can be wack. Especially the CPC numbers.
The stats are just out dated. Just imagine the resources needed to have up to date stats on every keyword possible, it would be mind boggling. I am not sure how outdated the stats are but I would assume atleast 10-15 days.
I have come to think Google is completely inaccurate. Google's keyword tool analyzed under exact match for the keyword phrase "internet marketing techniques" shows an avg monthly search volume of 49,500 Wordtracker and SEO book's free keyword tools show an average daily search volume of about 3 which you can sum to about 90 monthly. 49,500 or 90 per month, come on now! Not even close. I don't know what to think especially because a private SEO firm I contacted and textlinkbrokers.com both agreed with the average daily search volume of 3 and didn't trust google's saying they were trying to 'juice' it for advertising dollars any experts out there know the truth? I 've unfortunately already started building a blog around googles estimates not knowing they might be inaccurate.
I don't believe googles stats are always right either, I'd say track with them and a third party if possible.
Google tool officially seems bogus to me now... I ran a test with google adwords using ppc and got myself within the top 10 sponsored ad positions on average for keyword phrase "internet marketing techniques" So far over the past few days i have gotten about 14 impressions, and half are probably from my own searches, lol Nothing near the estimated monthly exact match search volume of 49,500 that the adwords keyword tool estimates. Google Sucks my findings agree with the search estimates of wordtracker and seobook...
The google tool also includes results from the 'google search network' - so it might be accurate, but isn't useful if you wanted to run a campaign on google search only. http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=90956 However, all search info is showing as insufficient data at the minute... so it has gone back to being ultimately pointless as a guideline again.
Makes you wonder how much % of the searches are from people really searching , maybe 50 % or more is from advertisers checking out the market ...
Yeah, The google tool is #1, I trust this tool the most. I would trust google over wordtracker. For a specific long-tailed keyword Wordtracker claimed it was gettin 100+ hits per day, I made a page based on that keyword, and ranked in the top 3 in google for the keyword , I'm getting barely 20-30 hits per MONTH with that keyword. Same happened with other keywords. I don't trust Wordtracker, Googles' Keyword tool is the best
The addition of search volume to this tool is brand new, just came out so I suspect that some glitches are possible. I went through and checked a dozen of my keywords and many of them seem to be accurate with the exception of a few. I tried testing only those in position 1 - 8 since those will all get the most impressions. To me it seems the numbers are off the more down the page your listing is. For example position 7 search volume seems to be way under the keyword tool estimates. But keywords in position 1 - 3 are much more accurate. I assume this is because of the search partner networks. If you have looked into many of the search partners some of them only display the top 3, others only display the top six and others display the top 8. Also when google highlights the top 3 on a search results page that brings 11 advertisers to the home page instead of the normal 8. So the numbers seem closer to googles numbers when in the top positions which of course is what google wants, so the tool is still a ballpark estimate tool, which is always what I have called it. Use the numbers as a gauge of what possible and for optimization purposes. Its better to work with keywords that have potentially higher volume then keywords that will only get 10 searches a day. So you can use the tool more as a way to figure out which keywords to focus on, rather than budget and clicks
Excellent reply robertpriolo - Overall I think Google is good, and the search volume feature was just released.