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Google Search Volumes

Written by mbpage on July 10, 2008

I’m sure you caught the news yesterday that Google was now making search volume information available via it’s free keyword tool. This is fantastic news and with the data seemingly verified as accurate by a number of independent experts one wonders where the future lies for the likes of nichebot and wordtracker. Not that I think they’ll go bust but they will certainly need to deliver more to their subscribers now.

I have spent a couple of hours comparing data with the above and some of the differences are marked. Mainly on the positive side I have to add with many terms having higher volume than wordtracker was estimating. The great news is that using the Google tool has been a really boon already for determining niche store categories. I think it will make all of us more money and when used in conjunction with any tool that can help analyzing competition it comes into its own. Can’t wait for a Keyword Elite update myself.

For me the area of most excitement is being able to search keywords by territory which makes it the best international keyword tool available. Think I might build my first BANS Australian store to celebrate.