Perhaps the most popular and widely used keyword search tool has been laid to rest. While I knew this would inevitably happen, I had always hoped it would be around forever. In the last couple of years it has been slowly dying as the keyword search response times grew slower and slower or it just didn’t work at all.
Yahoo’s keyword search tool would allow anyone to type in a keyword or a keyword phrase and in a matter of seconds see exactly how many times that keyword or phrase was searched for in Yahoo / Alta Vista / Overture in the previous month. While it didn’t give net-wide results, you just needed to multiply the results by 4, since at the time it was last with us, Yahoo had a search market share of around 25%.
While clearly the source for market research for many online marketers, the results were always taken with a grain of salt. However, in my opinion there was no better alternative to quick niche market research and it will be dearly missed.
Where do you turn now? Here are some alternatives to Yahoo’s late keyword search tool:
https://adwords.google.com:443/select/KeywordToolExternal
There’s many more out there, but finding a worthy replacement won’t be easy.
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John Diffenthal // Jan 30, 2007 at 6:39 am
You didn’t mention my personal favourite – NicheBot – although it is a subscription service it is very good value. I use it several times per week.
I like it so much that I’m offering this recommendation without being in their affiliate program!
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