I was reading an ebook by Robin Nobles called, "Demystifying The Radically Different Keyword Results Provided By Overture and Wordtracker" In it, he says that the search frequencies in Wordtracker is not as accurate as you would think. For example, if Wordtracker says that if a certain keyword phrase is 300 queries per day, then it's no where near that. He says it's due to the fact there are "artificial searches, duplicate searches, plural and singular searches. In fact, her findings show that the real actual queries is only about 25% of actual queiries. So, if a keyword phrase says it's getting 100 queries a day for it, it's really only 25 queries a day because of the above mentioned factors and so much more that was mentioned in the ebook. What are your thoughts on this? Because if this is true, then this really screws up your keyword analysis research. Are there better ways to do keyword analysis since Wordtracker and Overture are flawed?
I don't think the exact numbers matter, for most things, it's more about their relative values most of the time.
for my keywords the traffic from msn + yahoo is equal to 75% of what the overture tool said. Your millage will vary
Not accurate at all. I've been no 1 for a number of terms (around 10) for a few months. According to overture there are 1.5k + searches per day combined for these terms. I'm lucky to see 100 a day. I wish I got half of the 1.5k, because I sure as hell wouldnt be going to my day job anymore WAAAAAAHHHH!!!!
Wordtracker is driven by searches done at Dogpile and MetaCrawler, which are both Meta search engines. Considering that a majority of searches are done on G, Y!, or MSN, Wordtracker isn't a good estimate of actual searches being done across the net. But, Wordtracker is a good estimate of searches on a small scale, which for the most part represents larger scales. You can also try www.Snap.com for finding keyword niches. I like Snap.com's real-time figures they give. Up and coming search engine.
I am no.1 for a keyword at MSN having 300K searches per month according to overture. But, I hardly get 100 visitors for that keyword daily. I know MSN is used way less, but that less I never really imagined.
Ooooh, that is a good search engine. Are their search counts based on a monthy query or weekly query or daily query? Any ideas?
Tell me something that I don't know Actually, I think it might be possible to run some extrapolation. For example, my client's real estate blog is #1 on MSN. The keyword that she's ranked for is, according to Wordtracker getting over 1000 queries a month. So let's say that MSN has 20% market share of total search queries. So 20% of 1000 is 200. And 200 queries divided by 30 days is about 6 queries a day for the keyword phrase. If the site is ranked #1, then I should be getting at least 2-3 clickthroughs via the SERPS to my site on a daily basis. And yet I'm not. Argghhh
i got a #1 in msn for a phase which has 600+/day searches from WT and 1.6k/day searches from overture .. Yet im only getting less than 20/day from MSN .. If MSN can grow like google then i'll retire at the age of 23