Good afternoon from totally dark zero degrees C Leeds UK.
I have been using Google adwords traffic estimator to get a fix on potential search volumes for a keypharse but is there a better tool out there?
Thanks in advance 
Rather tools I would recommend you to obtain the keyword/phrases from Google suggestions list. But the suggestions from Google Suggests can be taken if you don’t use personalized search/history option enabled. So why don’t you give it a try?
A lot of people swear by Market Samurai. I have never bought it or used it, but it comes up a lot amongst the forums.
I spoke with the head of SEO at a large UK SEO firm (he’s been in .net magazine talking about SEO).
He said he still uses Adword Keyword tool, but make sure that he gets the [exact] data.
Despite what everybody says, it is pretty accurate
Google Adwords Keyword tool is the best one for keyword and search volume research, but it’s not very accurate. Neither for competition index nor for global monthly search volume.
Yeah, I agree. I use Google Adwords Keyword tool first, but then I also use Spyfu, Google Insights, and Wordtracker to make sure I have all the information possible.
A good snippet to remember is that Google will only give the first 3 relevant digits, which is why people say that it could be so inaccurate.
For instance, a result with 99,900,000 could be off by as much as 99,999 searches.
The same holds true with Google’s search results. When you Google something, it will come back with “About ________________ Results”. But if you notice, it will only give 3 digits.
They claim they don’t want to overload their servers by giving all the digits… I think they just like to be secretive
Yes, I am also using google adwords and its good but now i need some new tool which can give the perfect and accurate search volume report.