Comments on: How-to Track Global Search Trends

By: Franky17

Franky17 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:29:40 +0000

Now that overture has been taken down :( why would they do that, you can use wordtracker search tool

By: Palcom Web

Palcom Web — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:46:04 +0000

Search engine optimization is a time taking and tricky business. It requires a lot of effort and hard work to rank in top. But the key phrases used to rank well on one search engine may totally fail or be less effective to rank on other search engines. Well all the majorly known search engines differ from each other in some form or the other. It is for this reason that some people create web pages for a particular search engines while the rest of the pages are created for other search engines. Usually a slight difference is present in these pages. So when indexing takes place the search engine crawlers might find the slightest difference and mark them as spam. To overcome these difficulties a robot.txt file is created which is a simple txt or word pad file that is uploaded in the root folder of your site.

Write the following
User-Agent: (Spider Name)
Disallow: (File Name)

To disallow all engines from indexing a file you simply use the * character where the engines name would usually be. However beware that the * character won’t work on the Disallow line. Palcomonline.com

By: webhosting.uk.com

webhosting.uk.com — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:41:08 +0000

Indeed a very nice tool.

Nice post and very helpful too. Thanks for sharing with us.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:14:11 +0000

Very interesting tool and stats! But it would have been much better if they could have provided the actual figures alongwith the graphics. Nevertheless a very useful tool.

By: zia

zia — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 05:28:22 +0000

good stats!!!
but very confusing

By: jnoneiliv1

jnoneiliv1 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:23:14 +0000

Oops, the keyword list is as long as there are relevant phrases. I just found a keyword phrase in my industry with very little Advertiser Competition but relatively high search popularity that does not appear in the free overture keyword popularity list.

Cool.

By: jnoneiliv1

jnoneiliv1 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:15:27 +0000

Interesting, not quite the absolute measurement hinted by Matt’s choice of the words “total search volume”, but very good proportional measurements.

You can see the relative popularity of each keyword compared to each other as measured proportionaly, and the 12 month trend as each month is plotted against the rolling 12 month average.

A little more obscure to interpret, but you can also see Advertiser Competition shown graphicaly.

If you download to the CSV file the graphs are represented numericaly either as percent or some proportional measurement. Too bad the scale for the baseline for each set of keywords would not be the same accross several batches of 8.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:55:31 +0000

If you can't log in, there's a screenshot here. Very cool.

By: Davina

Davina — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:17:30 +0000

And the point of this is, how does it help, is the list in an order? How many times have those been searched? Rubbish

By: whoever

whoever — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:34:48 +0000

It shows No Data but graphic