Is there any web resource that will allow me to see how many times a specific term has been searched on google?
wordtracker.com or use Overture's tool and multiply the number by 1.8 and divide by the number of days in the month (i.e. October - 31)
where would 1.8 be coming from? there can't be a consistant number like that... it must vary from keyword to keyword. I usually use a combination of the DP tool (which uses overture and wordtracker data) and the google adwords estimation thing for a ROUGH idea, but even after that, I never walk away thinking I know how many people search for a word per day on google, or how many of those I can expect to get if I have a #1 position, etc...
I apologize for the 1.8 number - I was using an old reference figure rather than looking up my source data again. As I look at the sources, I see that much has changed since a year ago. Please forgive! If we assume Overture's tool (http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/) to be relatively accurate (which it isn't always), and we know that Overture's database contains the number of searches from approximately 42% of web searches done per day (Yahoo!, MSN & a few of the smaller ones - see http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156431), we can create some per day figures. 100/42 = 2.38 So if we have 3002 searches for the term "big wheels" in Oct. according to Overture, we can assume there were 7144 (3002*2.38) searches for the terrm across all engines in Oct. Now we just divide 7144/31 (31 days in October) = 230 searches per day. How does this compare to Digitalpoint & WordTracker? Wordtracker says there will be a maximum of 108 searches in a day for the term based on the traffic from the last 60 days. The DigitalPoint tool says that Overture = 97 searches/day and Wordtracker = 136/day. Digitalpoint gets their Overture figure by dividing 3002/31, but where the Wordtracker figure comes from is unknown to me. The general consensus from those in the industry is that Oveture's tool inflates keyword data somewhat because it does not differentiate between a bot searching and a human. Wordtracker is generally presumed to be slightly more accurate, but still not greatly so. Verdict: If you're seeking exact figures, there is no great source available. For comparison purposes and a general idea of whether your search garners hundreds or thousands of queries per day, Wordtracker & Overture both can help.
Is it just one term, or only a handful? If you want "real" numbers, through those terms into an Adwords Campaign for a day or two (prehaps a week?) and see for yourself. If you write a crummy ad and bid high it's not likely cost you much, if anything. Conversely you could write a good ad and test your convesions.... - PT / Michael / www.2ndsite.biz
I've found www.mostpopularkeywords.com from the Co-Op ads, but I don't know how viable the results shown are...
It appears to be weekly... At least one keyword wasn't in their list of searches (wich i'm optimizing for) and now is available with an anverage number of daily searches and the first 10 results in Google.
LOL, the top 3 key terms on mostpopularkeywords are hilarious. Makes you wonder how accurate that data is. Who searches in Yahoo, MSN, or even google for google? Unless it separates multi-valued queries...
Actually, as far as I read on the WW Subscriber forum the keyword "google" is heavilly searched in MSN, so it is "www". So, if this are actually separated keywords it does make sence. But, no one, only the big G can tell you exactly what people are searching!
thats because a lot more people than would think confuse the address bar and the search field of the major search engine they have bookmarked as their homepage.
Here's the Overture suggestion tool that MostPopularKeywords.com bases much of it's rankings on. Search and see if you can find words that are searched more than 'google' or 'yahoo'. http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/