Aaron at SEO Book has partnered with Wordtracker to release a new & improved keyword tracking tool just in time for the holidays (forgive me, I’m in Panera right now listening to Bing Crosby, sitting across from a Christmas tree and eating a chocolate chip cookie … so I’m full of holiday cheer this morning)!
SEO Book’s new Keyword Tool (or THE Keyword Tool) is a vast improvement says Aaron, as after talking to Wordtracker about how unreliable the Yahoo Keyword Suggestion tool is, Wordtracker worked with AWall to develop this new free tool.
So Aaron, what are the improvements over the old SEO Book Keyword Tool?
- We now have a CSV export option at the top of the results. And it is pretty sweet! It lists keyword, WordTracker count, daily estimates for the big 3 engines, and broad and phrase match versions of each keyword :)
- Because Wordtracker’s business model relies on selling keyword data, they have a vested interest in keeping it as clean and reliable as possible, and are unlikely to pull a Yahoo
- Wordtracker does not tokenize plural words into their singular versions, so you get to see volumes for both singular and plural to know which is more popular. In fact, if you search for the plural they will still return the singular
- Wordtracker does not arbitrarily alter the word order like the Overture did
- Wordtracker’s API is much more reliable than grabbing the data from Overture was
- Wordtracker’s API allows you to filter out adult keywords.
I checked it out this morning. It’s probably more accurate now thanks to Wordtracker but all the estimates are lower as well :(
Also the new tool distinguishes between lower and upper case which I think is a bit non sensical.
I think this tool is only useful for people which are living in the VS or UK. But for me it is not useful, because the estimates are very low. They are absolutely not equal with the numbers of Google’s Estimate Tool and my Adwords results. It is too low. Where I am getting 120 clicks a day and thousand of views a day, where this estimate tool says there are 9 hits a month.
I do agree that this tool does not really applies to local search optimization outside of US or UK. Did a check and noticed that it returns low value for some of my terms but these terms got me at least 10 clicks a day but displayed as only 24 hits per month.
will check out the seo tool mentioned,
thx for the info
Great, thanks thats much more improved tool than word tracker.
It is much better than the previous one.
The numbers can be totally off from what Google traffic estimator reports. I don’t know how to reconcile it.
The number game does not tally with google’s own tool. Seem funny to me.