Yahoo keyword tool's accuracy

Discussion in 'Keywords' started by LikeButta, Oct 12, 2006.

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    I wonder constantly about the accuracy of this tool. When you see

    'asia east guide lonely lonely planet planet shoestring shoestring south'

    is searched 630 times in a month you begin to wonder. Maybe someone testing a script to spam yahoo search to alter keyword tracking results?

    Anyone have an ideas why there are so many phrases that are impossible to be searched the number of times they show?
     
    LikeButta, Oct 12, 2006 IP
  2. ju2ltd

    ju2ltd Peon

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    Yep I've wondered the same thing. I know that the overture keyword suggestion tool includes loads of duplication (from other search engines in its network) and robot traffic may be this can exlain some of it.
     
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  3. Marx

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    Yea yahoo overture tool well dodgy
     
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  4. LikeButta

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    That makes since. After seeing like 50 other terms like the above involving lonely planet I searched and found a travel site named lonely planet. I couldn't find any portion of their site that could be the culprit. Likely some kind of spider activity.
     
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  5. uzair

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    yes,i think they are just try to make the keyword tool confuse..if i want to search some thing in the internet, i'm absolutely not type that kind phrase!
     
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    Diler001 Guest

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    I really don't think the Overture Keyword Tool is that accurate in my opinion. It is at least several months outdated and only provides a good starting point but should not be followed exclusively.
     
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    Kaudo Well-Known Member

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    Overture is fine but you must use your brain when using it.
    Just filter out all results that seem not reasonable for you, reshuffle the words in the phrases with more words and the rest is really worth a try.
     
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    Keep in mind that this tool has been essentially unchanged for 5-6 years...... they just replaced the Overture logo with the Yahoo one. Yahoo really needs to get their act together ...
     
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    Keep in mind that this tool is used by thousands of webmasters checking keywords. And those thousands are using Yahoo to check their rankings, their competitors rankings, etc. So the results will include all these searches. This can greatly skew results for terms lots of webmasters are competing for.

    Don't use it for the hard numbers. Use it to compare relative numbers to your other related keywords.

    If you want better results then pay for Wordtracker. It uses data from MetaCrawler and Dogpile. These search engines don't get used so often by people doing searches just to check rankings. But keep in mind that the people who use these engines may have slighlty different behaviors form the masses who use Google or Yahoo. They may be a bit more technilogicaly sophisticated. maybe


    Edit: This is post 420 for me :) puff puff
     
    axemedia, Oct 15, 2006 IP