New SEO Book Keyword Tool...3 Cheers for Wordtracker!!!
I recently talked to the fine folks at Wordtracker about how unreliable the Yahoo! keyword suggestion was, and Wordtracker offered to work with me to power the SEO Book keyword tool using Wordtracker's robust and reliable API.
The new SEO Book keyword tool operates like the old one, but with the following improvements
- 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.
Yahoo! Search Marketing offers a developer API, but given how rough their transition away from their old keyword tool was, I would much rather use a reliable market leading tool like Wordtracker. Please give it a spin and let me know what you think.
Recommendation: If you don't mind investing a couple bucks into in-depth keyword research, make sure you try the paid version of Wordtracker with all the added features and benefits they offer.
Comments
Nice improvement to the old version. Is there a way to show local results ie. just for Google UK to gain more accurate results?
I know Wordtracker offers a UK specific tool inside their paid service, but I am not sure if that is available yet in their API.
Hi Aaron
Thanks for working on this the Yahoo error were driving me nuts.
Having said that, at the moment I'm getting this error: Notice: Undefined variable: ret in
____*
on line 243
On a lot of the searches.
Also I agree with Poster boy would be great to have local results.
Thanks again.
* Aaron edited out URL. thanks for the feedback!
Hi Nixies
Can you tell me a specific keyword / search query that throws that error so I can try to fix it?
The term I tried it with was 'horse insurance' now it just seems to crash when I try. Might be something my end but everything else seems to be working okay.
Hi Aaron
We love love love this application and have been using it religiously for months however all our clients are based in the UK so we can't use it any more :(
Will you be finding out if UK is available in their API?
Many thanks
Melissa
nice but for me i'll still have to use overture with all its flaws as wordtracker doesn't give me the option to show results from the UK only like overture does .
It looks like that I have never learned how to use WordTracker in an appropriate way. I don't know if I am doing something wrong but whenever I make a "Simple Search", I end up having a lot of keywords that don't have anything to do with the original topic.
Great tool.
Nixies, you're right. The keyword tool returns the following error. "Notice: Undefined variable: ret in _____*
on line 243
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ______*
on line 243"...Aaron, I figured that if I click on the 'Suggest!' button it works just fine but if I hit the 'Enter' key on my keyboard then I get the error. On the other hand...thanks for the improved keyword tool...it's great.
* Aaron edited out URL. thanks for the feedback!
It's a great tool and it's certainly refreshing that we don't have to get the fopen() error anymore. Don't know if you mentioned it but Wordtracker seems to distinguish between lower case and upper case as well! On the downside it becomes apparent that a few keywords I've been targeting have significantly lower search volume than they had on your old system. I.e. one keyword had a total expected search volume of 207k/month and now only 750 daily or 22.5k monthly (30 days).
Judging by the PPCs though I guess it's still worth going for the top :-)
Hi Everyone
I talked to Mike Mindel from WordTracker, and found out I had a setting wrong. We now got it consolidated to lower case instead of showing upper and lower case. I believe most search engines treat upper and lower case letters as being the same.
I love this new version! I also have a paid subscription to wordtracker but for some reason I end up using your tool more. :)
Especially love the Export feature!
Thanks Aaron! you rock!
Hi Desiree
My tool just aims to be a quick starting point - fast and easy. If you really want to dig in deep Wordtracker has a lot more features though.
Hi Aaron,
unfortunately this tool is just helpful for english seos or seos fighting on english markets :-(
Regards from Germany
Till
Is there any chance you could offer a legacy version of your old tool so we can pull the data from Overture for the foreign markets? I've always been interested in researching some of the bigger EU markets as well.
Hi Phil
I am about to leave, but I will do this when I come back tonight.
Your last keyword tool said my keywords recieved 100,000 searches per month and now it says 15.
What's to say in 2 months it will be different again?
Do you really have any idea what search volume is going on?
I don't use keywords to get exact volumes. I use them to get relative values and think about what I should structure my site toward.
The old keyword tool sampled Yahoo! but had large biases toward over-representing high value keywords due to automated searches on the Yahoo! network. The Wordtracker tool samples metasearch services like Dogpile.
Great stuff.
Since you don't use WordPress, I'll leave a manual PingBack for your article :)
http://www.lestarte.com/blog/2007/12/17/search-engines/39-seo-books-keyw...
@posterboy: Since Google has some parameters to play with, this task is easily done:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&num=100&q=
(Leave out the "&num=100" if you don't like to get 100 results at once)
Greets,
Lestarte
Even better than the last version -- I love this tool for quick cross referenced insight into traffic volumes for the phrases that pop into my head all day...without having to fire up my KD account and dig, and wait, and dig...
Thanks
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