The New Google Keyword Tool - An Eye Opener

What we all wished for since years, was to see what's behind the little green bars on the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, has come true since about two weeks! While Google is still hiding the number of advertisers (who could blame them) you can now see the approx. number of searches for a certain keyword or keyphrase during the previous and during this month. The numbers of the present month are estimated by Google.
Well, if there is still a webmaster out there, who doesn't' use the Google Keyword Tool; now might be a good time to check it out!
To use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you need to make an Adwords account with Google.

Yeah it rocks, but yet the results are not 100% accurate. Of course it is still the best keyword suggestion tool out there :)

They'll probably never be all too perfect. Google isn't going to share all they know with us i'm afraid. But in combination with the Traffic Estimator tool it's really great. That would be here: https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox - Sweet...

I discovered it yesterday !!!
I thought everyone knew already and did not bother to comment it here

it is definitely the best tool out there !!

Giorgos, i was busy, very busy during the past month, but when nobody was saying a word about such a significant change, i thought i'd check out the situation. Many webmasters had already dismissed the Google Keyword Tool as a "nice toy with no real value". One of my clients, a webdesigner company in Germany, told me straight out; "we don't use this tool, it's only good for Google to make more money". Now even they think it's a great tool.... Thumbs up for Google!

OK, I am in love with google all over again. I can not believe there was no announcement. Thank you for this and the other post on overture that got me over here.

Seems i landed a cracker afterall :-) What is a problem with Google is that they never send out any announcement to neither, their advertisers, nor their AdSense partners. For nothing! No mailing about changes, news or anything. I've seen better from any other company with a mailing list!

What I like most is the way I can now see the monthly trends and variables of long tails around sales training and sales planning.

Good news ! I am thinking about creat key words for my site ,Now I can check it out .

So, my sales bloggers team taht is launching a site just put this tool to great use. We had a meeting today and were trying to name the first e-book that will couple our launch, We used this too to determine what three word phrase to start it with and found one that received 300k searches a month. While we know that this is going to be a challenge, we figure 10 of us promoting the e-book with blog posts and articles and networking should have a monster effect. Thank you for this post as if it was not for you, our naming plan would have been way off.

I use Adwords too and it helps me a lot on my sites. Wordtracker is a good tool too!

salestrainer - i like your strategy! That's what I'm trying to preach to my clients as well. It's no longer possible to get top rankings with only one website promoting a business. Multiple attempts with loads of linking and a broader key phrase spectrum are the only way to success today. Long tail key phrases are much more likely to rank high than single keywords.
 
Formula to Success: 
 - Use a long tail phrase (3+ words) found on the Google Keyword tool.
 - Write an article with exact that phrase as title.
 - Add one or even two h1 - h3 title(s) inside the article containing the exact key phrase
 - Have a good balanced density for that phrase inside your article
 - Set the keyphrase on the first spot of your meta keywords and description
 - Add tags containing the key phrase (as a whole and as single words and combinations, don't use any other words)
 - Publish it.
 - Digg it* and bookmark it, if you like, but that's only topping things up, it should work without as well.

You'll most probably find your article on page one - if not Nr.1 - on Google within minutes! My personal best was
"diving lessons puerto rico". It turned up nr.1 and 2. on Google within 17 minutes after publishing the article "Diving Lessons in Puerto Rico"! - Mind the stop-word "in" that doesn't play any role in the search results here.

With the opening of the Google keyword tool it has become easy to find long tail key phrases with a high search volume and that's where the traffic is.

*Before you go to digg your article, check Google first. Maybe wait one hour. If you're already on the top spot - Hit the breaks - Don't digg it! You might end up kicking yourself out from the top and find your digg in front of you.

Interesting suggestion. Do you hold off Digging as long as you rank #1? How far down in the SERPs before you do Digg?

If i don't find my article on page one within the hour i start digging and bookmarking.

A little update on my previous formula to success - StumbleUpon gives me much more traffic than Digg! This is even though the diggs always get higher ranked in search engines...

The new Yahoo Buzz bookmarking site seems still to struggle getting out of first gear. People seem to love stumbling around the net.

Last but not least, Entrecard; my verdict: Not bad to generate traffic. Immediate results are not to expect but I'm testing it since a month now and my visitors from stumble have multiplied like mad. That's if you're just dropping. If you go though and use the private messaging system of Entrecard to make real contacts with real bloggers who regularly update their site, it's a great tool, because you find a lot of open ears from people who are just as desperate to get more traffic to their sites. 

If you haven't got a clou what I'm talking about, I'll have to ask where you've bee during the past month ;)
In this case just visit www.entrecard.com and find out. Or Read my Article about EntreCard here. But, seriously, it's to be used with caution! It's totally addictive! You'll find yourself strolling through the net, reading stuff you never dreamed of reading, for hours, burning daylight. I give it 5/10 educational points and 3/10 traffic generating points. Enjoy.

P.S. EntreCard is built entirely in Wordpress! Unbelievable what you can do with WP!

It is really great--Once I discovered it I don't use wordtracker or wordpot anymore.  I think it's pretty easy to use too.

But not very reliable after all! I found a niche with 30'000 plus so called "searches/month" created a blog for the key phrase and had it on page one within 2 weeks. Now i have like two or three visitors per day! I'm not sure if i would relay very much on that tool after this experience.

I have bookmarked it and whenever I will have time I will open it and will check it. Just check a bit now and find it really active. But let me try this one with some other niche as well.

I'l be eager to hear about your results. let us know here.

I still use WordTracker and KeywordDiscovery.com

Google Adwords keyword tool is very helpful to me. It doesn't give the exact information but atleast it gives us an idea on what keyword that is best to target.

Google always make new features. That is why it exists in unbeaten search engine. Now Google's new feature-video chat is available. Also Google phone is available in everywhere.

you  are right , i also seen it before 2 week that some changes occurs google

I use this tool and it works for me very well. It was the great effort of the Google to make new features regularly. So i like this as my favorite search engine.

The best

the number of advertisers (who could blame them) you can now see the approx. number of searches for a certain keyword or keyphrase during the previous and during this month. The numbers of the present month are estimated by Google.

I think the Google Keyword Tool is broken! I tiped in Finance and it gave me results like 1500 for some key phrases for last month and 5 million for the same phrase this month. I first got blinded a bit and thought that we must have a real fat crisis 2009 at hand! But than i tried some other key phrases and found it to give the same kind of results. a few for last month and hundreds of thousands if not millions for this month!

Furthermore I have #1 sites at Google that according to this tool should have thousands of visitors per month (22'000 searches) but only have a few visits per month!

Anyone else getting skeptical about this tool? Let me know!

@McHow2 Probably they are not using data from searches, but from content network keywords as well. In any way this tool is more like a hint, I guess none is going to give us their exact data for free.

BTW happy to see you again around McHow2 ;)

Nikolas, I'll be more often here again, once i've sorted out a few thing. Work has taken over my life once again. I found out that no matter where you decide to live, even if it is in paradise, work is always catching up, trying to make your life miserable ;)

There is another useful tool called WebCeo.

I would not want to be without it! ;) Working with Web CEO since version 2.5 - now we are by 8.0. It's a great tool and the free version is enough for the average blogger. Wait to buy (if you think you need the unleashed version) until you get a special offer. That happens like 4 -5 times per year.

Thanks,dude,,

Great infos

rock rock rock
handy enough
do help me alot

how abt WordTracker, i found that much more handy

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Yeah it rocks, but yet the results are not 100% accurate. Of course it is still the best keyword suggestion tool out there :)

I don't think there is any tools are 100%  accurate. But as u siad, it is still the best. And I think we can just use various tools to help us to do the research work.

After all, the more info we get, the better we will know about the SEO and our site's performance.:D

The one that I used alot is the wordtracker! Recommend!

Of course, it is great since many years. I like its accuracy.

i haven't used the google keyword tool.but now i'm gonna try it

I love google keywords research tool. The new interface looks more professional and side suggestion are also helpful...

I didn't heard of it until I came here.