"xxasdf" In Overture Keyword Phrases?

[daveberk]

I have been reviewing my kewords using Overture's Search Term Suggestion Tool and have noticed that many combinations have "xxasdf" as a keyword.

Try "xxasdf" as a keyword by itself and you can see a variety of phrases that include this "keyword". Most seem like they would be product or service searches.

Does anyone know of a search engine or tool that could be using this keyword for some reason?

It seems like someone/thing is creating artificial key phrases. More phrases to bid on, but for what reason?

[daveberk]

Most of the keyword phrases with "xxadsf" have few if any bidders on Overture. If it is a search engine that is adding this nonsense keyword, it may be worthwhile to bid on them. But if it is some other tool or a "education" experiment, I wouldn't waste my time adding keywords that will never be used by a human.

[voasi]

I have been noticiing this too with the keywords I have been adding in my Overture accounts.

Does anyone have some light to shed on this??

I have went to Google and used "xxasdf" in quotes and some of the pages that come up don't even show that in the text, but their in the title on the SERPs.

Could this be a good little way to generate a few more easy clicks to your site? Are the search engines doing this? Is this some new type of SEO of somesort? Who knows!? But it would be great if we could get some answers

Thanks! :)