Overture vs Wordtracker

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Saadh

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Okay so wickedfire and Jon's blog always get me excited about expanding in niches, but I have a problem.

Alot of time, I search through a niche and the results are completly different. For example, in my niche this is one of two keywords that I was aiming for, I'm not going for this anymore, I decided to go for another one so I'll talk about this one in the open:

"Video Game Systems" . Wordtracker says a measly 40/day while Overture is 400+ . 40 blows while 400+ is decent.

Now I did a quick keyword results through DP with: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/?keywords=video+game+system

Top 5 Results for Each:
Wordtracker
history of video game systems 64.0/day
first video game system 43.0/day
video game system reviews 40.0/day
video game systems 40.0/day
best video game system 27.0/day

Overture or Yahoo Search Marketing or Whatever:
game system video 431.3/day
game rating system video 18.8/day
game review system video 12.4/day
x box video game system 10.5/day
game system used video 7.0/day
best game system video 5.5/day

I know they get their data from different areas, but I mean the results are completely different :(
 


because they use different data sets accross different search engines.

The difference on figures that are so low means nothing. Getting accurate data for such unpopular terms would be tough and a comparison between them would be almost meaningless. You should be looking at terms above the 10k and preferably 20k mark.
 
Rob_TID said:
because they use different data sets accross different search engines.

The difference on figures that are so low means nothing. Getting accurate data for such unpopular terms would be tough and a comparison between them would be almost meaningless. You should be looking at terms above the 10k and preferably 20k mark.

Oh, alright. Thanks. Hehe, my most popular sites have barely ever topped 1000 people a day so I guess I'm just not used to such big numbers.
 
I would agree with Rob with such a speciality keyowrd the data returns will be very skewed dependin on the data they extract from. You definately need to be looking for I would say 20-30k traffic hits. At only 400 searches it is hard to market to that specific of a market. It really isnt time or cost effective.
 
dxearner said:
I would agree with Rob with such a speciality keyowrd the data returns will be very skewed dependin on the data they extract from. You definately need to be looking for I would say 20-30k traffic hits. At only 400 searches it is hard to market to that specific of a market. It really isnt time or cost effective.

But 20k-30k a day!? Are you meaning I should target a niche with the main keyword at 20k to 30k?

Yeah that makes sense and my niche is video games/computer games/technology in general so there are tons of keywords around.

When I create new keywords to target keywords though, say I made a page specifically about "Video Game Systems", it is just weird that its too hard to do a good calculation of the page.

Yeah I get it now by doing the google search and reading up. Small keywords are too hard to estimate.

Thanks guys :costumed-smiley-087
 
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