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Old 12-06-2007, 08:27 AM
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Default Re: Keyword Selector Tools

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Originally Posted by Webnauts View Post
But it is still worth to look at them.
Do you think? I got this email from Wordtracker. Obviously they are going to be biased but this does seam to make sense.

The numbers at Overture have been extremely over-inflated by the number of different partners that they have.

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Originally Posted by Wordtracker
Our conclusion is not only is the suggestion tool skewed by ranking software checking the positions within the engine, eg. WebPosition and hardcoded queries in places such as epilot, but also all the bid optimizers have appeared recently. They consistently check rankings inside the pay-per-click engines, artificially inflating the values and skewing the results. There are over 15 bid checkers now. You can imagine what these are doing to the results.

We filter the data we use from our ISPs and Search Engines to make sure that it's not distorted in this way.
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