Comments on: Keyword Tools: Google vs. Wordtracker

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:58:05 +0000

Very insightful article. There tends to be a lot of confusion as to what the Wordtracker search data represents (i.e. daily, monthly,). And it has been tough getting Wordtracker to explain this in plain english. Thank you for the great article.

By: Combson @ Superyachts

Combson @ Superyachts — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:54:17 +0000

It cleared my doubts, I have just started doing SEO optimising and brought my first domain on a first page, but much less traffic than expected….I’ll definitely try the wordtracker!

By: Rosalind Gardner

Rosalind Gardner — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:48:15 +0000

Hello Jad,

Nope, that’s not right. Kevin doesn’t understand what Metacrawler actually is and does…

MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. MetaCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, video, news, yellow pages and white pages.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Ros

By: jad

jad — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:39:57 +0000

Kevin –
“… I just don’t like the fact that Wordtracker leaves out 99% of searches on the web. How many of you use Dogpile and Metacrawler? I know I don’t. So think of all the thing’s you’ve searched for in Google, Yahoo, etc over the last 90 days. According to Wordtracker, your searches don’t exist…”

Is this right? WT completely ignores Google searches – about 80% of all UK searches ??
I knew about the WT 1% only, which always intrigued me as a USP …”We Ignore 99% Of The Data!!”
J

By: haris

haris — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:18:53 +0000

It is better to use google keyword tool. Because it will give your more accurate estimate then word tracker.

Word tracker looks for all SE of world while google is showing you its own results.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:28:38 +0000

I just don’t like the fact that Wordtracker leaves out 99% of searches on the web. How many of you use Dogpile and Metacrawler? I know I don’t. So think of all the thing’s you’ve searched for in Google, Yahoo, etc over the last 90 days. According to Wordtracker, your searches don’t exist.

However, the good thing about Wordtracker is: if it says it is a highly searched keyword, you can bet it is a pure result.

By: Haris

Haris — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:23:45 +0000

I was also in search of difference between google and word track statistics.

Thanks a lot for clearing this difference in my mind.

Waiting for new posts

By: Internet marketing ebooks

Internet marketing ebooks — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:47:55 +0000

A very interesting post, it’s pretty much what I’ve figured out myself and what most people who know something about this issue say.

Unfortunately, there is no ultimate precise and correct tool, therefore SEO and PPC campaigns can always fail in certain situations when numbers end up being hugely incorrect.

By: Rosalind Gardner

Rosalind Gardner — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:02:34 +0000

Hi David,

Well, that’s the one bit of good news I’ve had today. Thanks kindly for sharing it with us.

Cheers,
Ros

By: David

David — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:41:21 +0000

I have seen this kind of spread between the ‘broad’ match results and the [exact] match results on the Google tool. My dashboard results are almost always higher than the exact match results would predict. The 30-50% of the web not using Google can make a big difference.