This was originally posted at my blog: http://www.coreyeulas.com (under construction, but will be posting relevant SEO material).. Google SK Tool ReviewJust some food for thought: Some of you may already know of this tool but if not I encourage all to take a look: http://google.com/sktool/ I’ve been just doing some analysis of this tool and the “monthly searches†numbers seem very realistic to me. I think this may be the most accurate tool out there. Any thoughts from anyone who has used this tool strictly speaking about the “monthly searches†column? I’ve done some case studies with personal sites and the numbers seem to be very close to the numbers of hits I get a month on them (within the ballpark ). The numbers currently listed within the “old or original†Google Keyword tools is not even close. Sometimes I feel the numbers are inflated by at least 10x the actual number of real searches a month. I’ve looked at my personal site and I’ve got some pretty interesting results. On the keyword tool I punched in the searched phrase with no website filled in. It tells me “monthly searches†is 42. On Google Analytics it explains to me how many clicks I’ve rec’d from the phrase and that number for the month of October was 31. I am searching #1 for that term so I can assume when someone searches that name about 73% of people searching that phrase in are clicking on my site (that seems pretty darn accurate and a very fair number). The tool says another small searched term gets searched 66 times in a month, in Google Analytics in the month of October I received 62 hits for that exact term. Honestly - Does it get any more accurate than that?
Yeah, it looks quite good these new features Google keeps adding. I noticed it when I went to the Google Keywords site... It ties it perfectly with the rest of the tools and gives a kind of unified space for all your research.
It really is one of the best 'free' tools out there right now if you are looking to target some small niches and need a little help gauging a really small amount of traffic. It doesn't seem like the brand name tools out there help you do this.
Hi.. Thanks for your review on google keywords tool. I tried that and it was really awesome to use. The statistics shown by this tool is a great stuff. -- Dave.