Wordtracker

[Aaron H]

Found this by accident on my travels, they don't seem to be advertising it anywhere on their main pages as far as I can see.
https://www.wordtracker.com/trial/14days.html

or Google 'wordtracker $1'

Wordtracker 14 day trial for $1, they're also running a free video series with the trial, just had a quick run through on the videos and they'd be great for anyone new to keyword research.

 

[mcol]

can't see the point in Wordtracker since Google enhanced the adwords tool to show volumes.

 

[F1SEO]

Totally agree with the new adwords external tool word tracker has become less important.

Best of all the Google solution is entirely free!!

 

[Aaron H]

Can't dissagree with you guys, the Adwords tool is great now they've added search volumes but using both the Adwords tool and Wordtracker on quite a regular basis I've seen discrepancies on both sides with the search volumes, even google has thrown some really suspicious numbers my way, even worse sometimes exactly the same rounded off numbers appear for unrelated keywords (12800 seems to be a popular one for me for some reason).

Then trying to work out which keywords to go for with regards to competition is ok in the Adwords tool if thats where you want to be seen in the paid listings, just on Google but at least Wordtracker gives you a handle on the competition in the natural results across multiple engines and saves a lot of leg work.

But then again, just through my own experiences, none of the figures anywhere whatever tool you use are accurate, it's a case of gathering what info you can and then making a judgement from there. It's a bit like saying whatever Matt Cutts says about search is correct and leaving it at that, I'd rather go and have a dig around for more info to get a bigger picture.

 

[mcol]

google has thrown some really suspicious numbers my way, even worse sometimes exactly the same rounded off numbers appear for unrelated keywords (12800 seems to be a popular one for me for some reason).

I treat the numbers as a relative comparison against each other, never as an absolute. Sometimes the words in the phrase aren't in the right order, so beware of that.

 

[garyk]

I feel its the other way, I took out a paid 12 month sub. to wordtracker and used to use it alot but when I compared it against googles keyword tool it always gave me search volumes higher than google. Useful for maybe generating mis-spellings but I dont use it at all now as keyword tool does all I need. If you are targeting other SE's and not just google then fine otherwise its a waste of money IMHO.

 

[Connexions]

can't see the point in Wordtracker since Google enhanced the adwords tool to show volumes.

Agreed its all i use, and free.

 

[nass]

*soapbox time*

Honestly, I find all these "volumes" tools very spurious. Where I have sites at the top of the search listings for various terms the traffic doesn't even come remotely close to the numbers touted as "search volumes". Nor do wikipedia's (often one of the top 10 sites in the list).

Part of the problem here is the way they calculate these. for example, if you look up the # of searches for the phrase toys you'll get some bazillion digit number. But what I think is happening is that this includes every possible search with that word in it, from sex toys to big boy's toys to toys r us... etc. Not only that but bobby who might perform 10 different toys searches counts as 10 (fair enough I suppose but it still distorts the importance of terms in my personal opinion). Note I'm not 100% sure, just my explanation for the discrepancies

*gets off soapbox*

Btw if anyone has any facts etc to counter mine I'd love to be put right on this, it's a discrepancy I've never really seen explained well anywhere