Keyword Traffic Estimator Tools

[rawberg]

Hello,

I'm relatively new to SEO and looking to find a good tool for estimating the search traffic volume of different keywords in order to focus efforts on higher yielding terms. Right now I'm using Google's traffic estimator but it doesn't seem to have much data for long-tail keywords. Is anything else out there better or more accurate?

Thank you!

[moniii]

Thank you for the suggestion, but did you ever tried it by yourself. I had tried their service and the research tool didn't show me any results. Moreover I am targeting Latin America(separately each country...) and they targets only a few country..... Thanks for the response, Anyone else, any option...

[TheEspresseo]

Have you tried WordTracker? They offer "Search Count":

“Search Count (new tool):
For the Wordtracker data, the Search count is the number of times each keyword appears in our database of searches over the past 365 days. This constitutes just under 1% of all US search, and the data is gathered from metacrawler.com and dogpile.com.

The database is updated every day, and new data is between 15 and 30 hours old when it hits the live servers. If you’re searching using the Google data, the information presented is from the Google AdWords API. It’s Exact Match data by default, and the search volumes are from the last available month (in real terms this normally means the last calendar month).

There’s currently no indication from Google about their sample size for this data, or what kind of extrapolation may be applied to the data before it’s presented. There is a limit of 1,000 searches per month on the Google data – this is to ensure we can give an even service to all of our users.”

-https://keywords.wordtracker.com/help/metrics_explained

They offer a pretty good tutorial on how to use their tool to find profitable niches: http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/finding-profitable-keywords-just-got-easier

You can get the basic "WordTracker Count" (WT) metric for free from several different tools online, SEOBook.com's Keyword Tool among them: http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/ 

[moniii]

Well... With the new changed politic for the traffic estimator how is possible to do business plan for the specific niche... Anyone can suggest keyword traffic estimator alternative... Please

[KeriMorgret]

I don't know of a better source for long-tail keywords (though I sympathize, there's not a whole lot of traffic data out there for rc model warship combat related keywords!). Would love to see anyone chime in.

There have actually long been complaints about the accuracy of the Adwords keyword tool. For some interesting discussion, see http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/google-adwords-keyword-tool-the-difference-explained.html and the previous posts he links to. A speaker on AdWords at a conference last year said that the AdWords Keyword Tool should be on a Fiction bestseller list somewhere.

[StalkerB]

With Google traffic estimator / keyword Tool you get the data from the SE itself.

Which is all the more reason not to trust it!

if you don't have data for long tail keywords that is probably because the search for those terms is very low as far as volume.

Because Google only now reports on keywords that make them money

There can't / won't be another better source for this kind of data.

Your own analytics are the only thing that will give you a truly accurate data set, however I appreciate that it's not predictive for the most part For future reference as well, once you have top rankings for something always compare it against what you thought you would get and judge for yourself how accurate the tool is.

Anyway, yes, use the tool it's still one of the best resources you have access to.

[eyepaq]

With Google traffic estimator / keyword Tool you get the data from the SE itself. There can't / won't be another better source for this kind of data.

I personally use this tool alone for this type of work.

if you don't have data for long tail keywords that is probably because the search for those terms is very low as far as volume.

..just my opinion but again, even if you find a source that can show you other # i think it's practically impossible to be accurate.

Hope it helps at least to enforce what you are using and put your mind to ease.