I'm trying to use wordtracker (freekeywords.wordtracker dot com) for the first time and can not find any doc's on it. I'm not sure if it is giving me broad, phrase or exact...and are the results given per day? month? year? I would think that would be broken out to a per day average but I'm not sure. I also would like to know if this is a good tool to use? I find this tool to return what seems to be better results in long tails where the google does not even come close to giving be half the results in legnth. Google returns a higher quantity of 200 at once where wordtracker may give less but longer phrases. Just checking to see how this silly thing works and how it compares to the google keyword tool. Please help me if you can
You must use with together with Google keyword. Try to find a keyword which is popular enough (as high as it can), and compare it using Google search, try to find which keyword shows little competition (<100,000)
The results are per day. I find that wordtracker varies massively to Google keyword tool. I tend not to use wordtracker because it is not as easy to get results and doesn't seem as accurate to me. I always use google and then try and get a "feel" for the keyword to work out if it is popular
It is so funny how people read something and have no clue what it mean. I have not asked for any of the answers above. I stated that there were no doc for me to understand how wordtracker works. Form the title "How to use free wordtracker understanding counts". The title keyword here being "counts" From the body: I'm not sure if the counts returned are? broad, phrase or exact...and are the results for per day? month? year? Does anyone know this? Let me explain since this didn't work. I search a keyword in wordtracker. On the right it gives me a number. Is this number a value of a broad, phrase or exact match? Are the values calculated on a per day? month? year? basis? Anyone with a clue to these answers? This is the best I can do or see to explain what I'm look for in a answer.
Hi Blasingame, I've just come across your post - sorry it's taken a little while. My name's Mal, and I work for Wordtracker Customer Support. The search counts you see from the tool are from dogpile.com and metacrawler.com and consist of just under 1% of US search over the past 365 days. It's not necessarily an even spread of keywords and searches across all niches, but it's a fairly representative sample of US search. The data is updated daily, and when it gets to the servers it's between 16 and 30 hours old, so it's pretty fresh. As regards your question about match types - the keywords you see appear to you exactly as they are typed into one of the metacrawlers by a real person, and they're not altered in any way - the numbers you see are the amount of times each keyword appears in the Wordtracker database of searches. You will find differences in the results between Wordtracker and the Google tool. This is largely due to differing data sources, but also down to the way that the Google presents its results as default (Broad Match) - if you select Exact Match (which you can do using the drop-down near the top right of the keyword list) then you'll see the figures for each keyword drop, sometimes dramatically. There will still be visible differences between keyword counts, but doing this does bring the two sets of counts a little more into line with each other. I do hope this is of some help, but let me know if this presents more questions for you. All the best, Mal