OK, I check this forum daily but this is my first post after months of watching, reading, learning and trying new techniques. Thanks to all who post here, your insight into Google has helped beyond my wildest expectations! Here is my question. I know how to check how often my best keyword is searched using the overture search tool, but how do I find out what the combined total searches are for the keyword in ALL search engines combined? Anxiously awaiting the next Google update!
There's no tool for that (ie Google doesn't give out that info). But if you just multiply the overture data many times over, it's a rough guesstimate of what you can expect overall.
overture data is too out of whack cuz of webmasters searching their own phrases there. I'd use wordtracker to get a more reliable reading.
I think its searches at overture.com only. I don't think yahoo has changed that (anyone can feel free to correct me here, of course). The overture data is way too corrupt, IMHO. No one really searches for 18 word long keyword phrases like their suggestion tool comes up with. Obviously webmaster searches. Besides, wordtracker is better because it won't change words for you. If you type in "type writer" it will give you searches for "type writer" not "typewriter" like overture would. That's really the main reason I like it - better indicator actual searches.
I've actually been seeing some terms that supposedly have a lot of traffic, according to both WordTracker and Overture, but in reality a page ranked on page one of the SERP in google gets basically no traffic at all. Apparantly there is corruption in the WT data too (albeit a whole lot less than overture)
This is a quality keyword research tool that someone posted at DP last week. The results are close to reality from my experience.
Very nice tool indeed but I find the results a bit questionable. I find it hard to believe that in a month there are 333,571 searches for "Computer Repair" compared to 5,801,452 for "Data Recovery" and 156,513 for "Virus Removal". Data Recovery seems very bloated.
Yes, I saw that but still the numbers are just too far apart in my opinon. Just look at virus removal...that is the number #1 computer problem by far in excess of data recovery but is the least amount search on of the three? Anyway, I guess I will just have to keep working at getting that number one listing on the engines and see what happens. It sure is hard to plan/staff when you have no idea of what to expect!
I've seen the same search traffic inflation in the free keyword discovery tool as well. perhaps we all need to fork over the 20k a month to get access to hitwise
Click the tools button above an use the suggestion tool here. It covers Overture and Wordtracker so you can compare them both.
that tool does seem to point out that for at least one of the two terms i checked that I've noticed corruption in, overture doesn't have the same (severity of) corruption.