The Google Keyword Tool Has Changed

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Does this help at all with finding domain names? I wouldn't think so since these keywords were already listed but we now just know how many times they're typed in.
 
boy- shows the other sites really are wrong.

Makes sense, how can others claim "refinance" gets only ~15,000 searches monthly while Goog says :13,600,000.

I was heavy in the mortgage lead space, not a chance only 15,000 monthly.
 
It can't be right! It shows that "Cristiano Ronaldo" got less searches during June (Euro 2008) than during an average month.

Simply not true. I got a big spike in June on my fan site..

I don't get it?
 
beantown said:
Does this help at all with finding domain names? I wouldn't think so since these keywords were already listed but we now just know how many times they're typed in.
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Of course this helps with finding domain names, it'll increase your keyword research by letting you know which terms are actually worth ranking for.
 
turbolapp said:
Because you know more about whose searching for what than google does?
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Yeah, that's why.

It's because after doing some research I've found several terms that are over twice as long but get over 100x more searches. For example, a 9 word phrase gets about 5500 searches/month whereas the same term minus the last 5 words (so, a 4 word term) gets only 300.

I'm not saying Google's wrong, I'm just saying it seems unlikely.
 
Not necessarily. It depends on what your talking about. For example if you have:

"Company" It get's the most searches (of course) at 100, 000

Then let's say "Company" came out with:

"Company Easy Product" 50,000 searches

Then it came out with :

"Company Easy Product Advanced" 20,000 searches and this was a popular product. Then a few years later it came out with :

"Company Easy Product Advanced To Go" and this is all the new rage because it's a new improved version and everyone is excited about it. It could very well top the one before it at 30-40K a month, even though it has a longer tail.

I'm actual basing this off of some of my long tail keywords that have higher searches that the shorter.
 
turbolapp said:
Not necessarily. It depends on what your talking about. For example if you have:

"Company" It get's the most searches (of course) at 100, 000

Then let's say "Company" came out with:

"Company Easy Product" 50,000 searches

Then it came out with :

"Company Easy Product Advanced" 20,000 searches and this was a popular product. Then a few years later it came out with :

"Company Easy Product Advanced To Go" and this is all the new rage because it's a new improved version and everyone is excited about it. It could very well top the one before it at 30-40K a month, even though it has a longer tail.

I'm actual basing this off of some of my long tail keywords that have higher searches that the shorter.
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Fair enough.

That makes sense, but it still seems unlikely to me (with the examples I've found). However, I'll take Google on faith for now. ;)
 
Interesting stuff. I'm seeing monthly search counts as low as 11 searches.

I'm also noticing that they are breaking out separate results for plurals vs. singular as well.

Very, very cool.
 
ArtDeco said:
I wonder if Google is just fucking with us - now it works, next time it doesn't. Maybe they are tracking a sample with and without the numbers to see the effect on their Adwords bidding.
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??? it's still working fine for me.
 
so interesting notes about the tool:

I was looking at monthly queries for "rolex watches" and other similar terms and for a couple minutes it showed the terms for rolex ("rolex watches" "rolex watch" "rolex submariner", etc), however after about the 3rd search all of a sudden every rolex term was removed and now several days later I haven't been able to get them to show agian.

The closest I can get is the Rolex sports car series.

I know Rolex is very protective of their brand, wonder if for some bizzare reason Goog won't show this (they will show all other competing brands search terms/queries).

Anyone else see anything similar to this 'censorship?'
 
Sonny Forelli said:
Anyone else see anything similar to this 'censorship?'
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The keyword tool has been set up like that for a while. For terms that have been trademarked and the trademark owner has complained to google they usually won't let ads contain the trademarked term in adwords and they seem to remove the term from their keyword tool as well.
 
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