Monday, February 8th, 2010

BREAKING NEWS: Google Releases Exact Search Count Volume for keyword phrases…

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Late-breaking Keyword Informer Update

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All of a sudden – there is NO longer ANY confusion about how many times people are searching for a certain keyword phrase on Google.com.

This just spotted on Google’s External Keyword Tool as follows:

Google releases the search count numbers

Holy cow — can you see it?

Now — rather than the old view which showed those green bar graphs under ALL THREE columns, shockingly, there are actual search count figures for specific keywords.Like say, for instance, I look above at the screenshot and I can see that 9,900 people are searching for “blogging software” in June with an ongoing average of 12,100. And interestingly, there are 135,000 people looking for a “radio blog” with an ongoing average of 110,000.

By Google’s own definition, the “Previous Month’s Search Volume” column “shows the previous month’s search volume on Google for each keyword, specific to your targeted country and language.” The “Avg. Search Volume” column “shows the average monthly search volume on Google for each keyword over a recent 12-month period, specific to your targeted country and language. ” The shaded bar to the left remains unchanged as before which shows general low-to-high volume of how competitive ad placement is for a particular keyword.”

Now this is real hard core data versus those bar graphs they used to show.

Can someone say that there is actually some clarity on the demand of what is going on over at Google.com (half the world)??? :D

This is right straight from the source.

My natural curiosity right away is to go and compare figures with my search logs and other places.

I’d love to hear your reaction and how you think this will impact keyword research to have this kind of data at one’s finger tips.

Please leave your comments below.

Look forward to hearing your thoughts… thanks! ;)

Best,

Jim Morris, Founder

NicheBOT.com – “Finds exactly what people search for.”

P.S. If you’re a NicheBOT member and are wondering if NicheBOT will have these numbers in the Google tools — the answer would be “Yes, as soon as they become available to the API users.” ;)

Comments

172 Responses to “BREAKING NEWS: Google Releases Exact Search Count Volume for keyword phrases…”
  1. I personally think it’s just good that we have some data now and can show the client as more and more people are asking for keyword popularity numbers.

  2. frann says:

    The figures seem pretty accurate. This is the total traffic – it’s not all going to the number 1 slot – only about 42% goes to number 1. Someone mentioned they’re getting around 41% at number 1 so they seem to be getting about the right amount, which means the figures are pretty good.

  3. Kathy says:

    Great News

  4. Herbal Meds says:

    At last something concrete from google. This should be a very great ammunition for web masters. Hi Jim, thanks for this. I am a new nichebot user and I wish you could include this.

  5. This is great news and a major asset from Google.

    Thanks Jim,

  6. Great post Jim.

    Makes you wonder what they’re upto, doesn’t it?

    Cheers,

    Pete

  7. Thanks Jim,
    Are you the only one paying attention? No one else is mentioning this. Apparently you are on the leading edge of current SEO knowledge. Thanks
    Stress Reducer

  8. The really interesting thing will be to see how this affects Wordtracker and their subscriptions.

    We will have to wait and see.

  9. I am always suspecious of Google. We need them for traffic, but they can really bite at times. I appreciate the new format, makes it easier to do keyword research, but I’m waiting for the other shoe to fall.

  10. adam says:

    Good news thanks for this information

  11. The tools is awesome and yes I am a Nichbot Suscriber….
    I cant wait until the api has been implemented into google….

    PLEASE EMAIL ALL YOUR SUBSCRIBERS AS SOON AS IT HAPPENS…

    Regards

  12. Allison says:

    My question now is this… are any of you using a formula to determine TOTAL search numbers? In other words, if Google accounts for 60% of all search traffic, then would you say that if Google says there are 6000 searches on a keyword per month then perhaps there are 10000 searches total? Just putting that out there…

  13. John says:

    Good news thanks for the info!

  14. Dorktottbut says:

    Hello! simply super resource

  15. Barry Hurd says:

    This isn’t new information is it…? It is a slight variation of how they present data. I would guestimate that most of the data is skewed a heavy amount if you check it against top ranking search results on the Wikipedia keyword results.

    They have been releasing approximate search volume and estimated price information through the adwords campaign panel for over two years on and off. They are just playing with the dashboard view and adding some functionality to the other search tools they offer.

    I suggest everyone who is interested in Google numbers really take the time to play with all the labs products and sign-up for the various Google webmaster tools, as many of these hidden gems are specifically kept in silos so that Google can control variate testing and watch how folk use the information.

  16. Ive been using their keyword checker for awhile now, but disappointing I bought a few domains which were available because google said the search volume was high, I now check back and the search volume has dropped by about 90% for that specific keyword.

  17. Jolanda says:

    This is regardless of the age of the information still great information. I have this bookmarked for a long time now and still come back to see if additional information on the SEO part is added. Thank you very much for sharing this and for keeping it on your site this long.

    Jolanda

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