Keyword research tools

[ozchris]

Hi.
Just wondering what people's opinions were on the best keyword research tool.

We've had a subscription to keyworddiscovery.com for over a year now, their selling point at the time being that they covered more search engines than wordtracker. At first they had the global database, and monthly overture stats.

Since then they've introduced premium versions, both global and national. I'm very interested in Australian stats, so it sounded good.
The premium version means that it is "cleansed" of inflated stats from automatic tools. I guess this means their own searches as well.

But for a recent project, this is what I got:
keyword phrase = "tax planning".

Global premium said 652 searches
Australian premium said 1 search - for a four word related phrase.
Global historical (uncleansed) said 118,177 searches.
Monthly Overture Australia stats said 288 searches.

Beats me how Overture Australia gets 288 searches per month, but Australian Premium only gets 1.

We like to give clients reports on keyword statistics, so they can customise their page content, and at the beginning of a project, to decide on pages.

What is everyone else using for keyword statistics, especially if you are Australian?

cheers

[imvain2]

If inventory.overture.com is any indication of overture's reporting tool then its no longer valid since the last date they report is jan 2007.

I have used many tools that use overture and they all report the same old data.

[coolguy27]

overture is still the best keyword tool to use... but unfortunately they stop updating since january how sad...

This overture at least give major datas around the world.. Searches of visitors around the world on the internet... I'm still using this tool...

If inventory.overture.com is any indication of overture's reporting tool then its no longer valid since the last date they report is jan 2007.

I have used many tools that use overture and they all report the same old data.

[qh4dotcom]

I have used wordtracker.com in the past...many people regard it as the best keyword tool.

[Webnauts]

Check Aarons tool: SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool

[imvain2]

aarons tool is based on overture's results from jan 2007

under google they take overture results times 2

and for msn they take overture and divide by 2

[deepsand]

To the best of my knowledge, Yahoo ceased updating the data at inventory.overture.com when they migrated all users from the old Overture platform to Panama in February.

[mjtaylor]

Yes, Overture no longer updates its tool; it's forever stuck in January 2007.

I like Keyword Discovery's tool and Wordtracker is also very popular. Both have free tools.

Cheers, MJ

[erikko]

i use wordtracker myself, overture isn't that good

[4arizona]

You really can use these tools for a rough estimate. There are many terms that I have search engine optimized to the number 1 position in the natural search in the 3 majors. (Although lately it's not as easy as it used to be)


Where these search tools pull their data is beyond me. I think its a conspiracy to sell more ads. I can tell you I have never received more visitors than what was estimated. Usually it is about 30% less than estimated.

keyworddiscovery is the one that I like the best.

Usually cross check the KW with word tracker.