Google now shows Search Volume for Keywords
July 11th, 2008If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Some good news for anyone who does any SEO or keyword research for their website.
Google has now started publishing the actual search volume for keyword phrases. Previously Google just displayed a little graph to help people determine the search volume of a particular phrase, but now they are showing the actual number of searches for both the previous month and the average number of searches.
You can use this tool for free here:
Prior to this, using Wordtracker was the best way to estimate search volume for a particular phrase, but because Wordtracker uses only a small percentage of searches from meta engines and multiplies this up to give estimates for Google, MSN, Yahoo etc, it wasn’t always accurate.
It will be interesting to see what changes Wordtracker make as a result of this new feature from Google.
I am still going to use Wordtracker as it is the best way of getting together a quick set of statistics about keywords, taking into account the competition, but I will now be able to cross check all my phrases using the Google tool to make sure that I haven’t picked a duff keyword.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Suzanne, I just joined your power group, am new to internet Mkt. If I buy Word tracker it will put a big hit on my budget. I may not be able to get some of the other tools, from other members. Now that Google has changed its Word Tool do you think I can get along with it for a while. I am really impressed with all the information and help available from the Power group. thanks
Dave Rundman