Google Keyword Planner Updated. Is it still usable??

sun86

10 years ago

thats just an example. Type any keyword and the same sort of metrics come up.

It never use to be like this.

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jasontrent

10 years ago

HA very funny. Today was the first day I tried the Keyword Planner in quite some time and figured I missed some sort of announcement. I couldn't find anything on the web until this thread. Although I can't help I can confirm I am seeing the same thing.

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aizaku

10 years ago

oh snap!

what the hell is this?

LOL....

EDITED: just tried it and nothing has changed for me... maybe it'll take some time before the update gets to Japan.

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writeaway

10 years ago

It still works. Pay attention to the settings. Worse comes to worse, you might need to do a small buy and set it to inactive.

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tyronne78

10 years ago

Of course it still works. It's the first place I go when I need to do some keyword research.

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abbeyonline 10 years ago

Yes it is still working but not like before. Now instead of displaying exact monthly searches figure, it is showing in ranges i.e 10 - 100, 100 - 1,000 e.t.c.

I think is awful as one can't know exact monthly global or local searches now except you are
an adword advertiser.

Originally Posted by tyronne78

Of course it still works. It's the first place I go when I need to do some keyword research.
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Francisco PIW

9 years ago

Originally Posted by tyronne78

Of course it still works. It's the first place I go when I need to do some keyword research.

It doesn't work as before, the way of reporting results is different and it's having a limit of searches.

I tell you this just in case you want to check it out.

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hynds

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Francisco PIW

It doesn't work as before, the way of reporting results is different and it's having a limit of searches.

I tell you this just in case you want to check it out.

You can use MCC account to manage each child account then the search volume is as normal again.

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Sven300

10 years ago

For me, it works as usual.

For example, for the keyword SEO, (all countries, all language, google) I get the following results:

673,000 / month
competition: average
$6.91 CAD

Do you choose the right search feature?

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abbeyonline

10 years ago

I changed all my setting to yours, yet i a still getting this horrible results. Check it out:

Imgur : The most awesome images on the Internet Is it account or country base (Nigeria)?

What is really going on?

Originally Posted by Sven300

For me, it works as usual.

EDIT: Wow! I used a new account that i have never used for KWP before and it works as usual.

Something weird must be going on on big G side.

For example, for the keyword SEO, (all countries, all language, google) I get the following results:

673,000 / month
competition: average
$6.91 CAD

Do you choose the right search feature?

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aizaku

10 years ago

Day 2: so far so good. the KWP works as usual

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abbeyonline 10 years ago

Oh may be I am simply out of luck, because it is still displaying in ranges.

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Originally Posted by aizaku

Day 2: so far so good. the KWP works as usual
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- aizaku 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by abbeyonline
  
  Oh may be I am simply out of luck, because it is still displaying in ranges.
  
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  Still nothing has changed here...
  
  I'm just worried you're the first and soon we will all have ranges...
  
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mnbv10

10 years ago

you can try these 2
market samurai -free trial is gd enough
long tail pro
but keyword planner from google is still the best

To find the actual competitors try
http://goggle.com>intitle:"your keyword"

hope it helps

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sun86

10 years ago

Anyone managed to solve the mystery yet?

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abbeyonline 10 years ago

Yes i did. I used a new gmail account i never used on GKP and i am now getting normal result for global and local monthly searches figures.

What a relief!

Originally Posted by sun86

Anyone managed to solve the mystery yet?
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Uchewaf

10 years ago

That is strange. I never knew the result can be gmail dependent. We keep learning.

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MikeFriedman

10 years ago

Just to clarify something... They were never exact search volumes. They have always been estimates. The range versus just a single number might be different, but they never gave the exact search volume.

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

Someone with the range data show us a screenshot of the 12 month bar chart span for a keyword. I want to see If Adwords shows the low months and high months.

Example keyword: seo tool 10k - 100k would be something like July has 10k traffic and December has 100K traffic.

If that's what Adwords is doing that's still detailed data.

Might be a PIA for exporting CSV data.

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ChrisBa

10 years ago

It still works, in the end it's just a tool and you should only use tools as a reference and not the "end all, be all"

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luciesmazanska

10 years ago

change setup in left column from range estimations to estimated montly searches

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sun86

9 years ago

alright guys, looks like google just did another sweep. My new account is now showing ranges. Is this the same for all of you?

If so, what can we now use to do our keyword research?

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JohnMcCabe

9 years ago

Originally Posted by sun86

alright guys, looks like google just did another sweep. My new account is now showing ranges. Is this the same for all of you?

If so, what can we now use to do our keyword research?

Do you actually run Adwords campaigns, or did you get an account simply to use the KWP?

The ranges are a response to "inactive" accounts, aka accounts where Google isn't making any money. Remember, that IS why they provide the tool in the first place.

Combine the ranges with trend data, and you'll get as close to actual counts as Google wants you to get.

Even when they did post an actual number, it wasn't a true, precise count of the number of searches. The best use was always comparative (i.e, "online marketing" vs. "Internet marketing").

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Sven300

9 years ago

Originally Posted by sun86

alright guys, looks like google just did another sweep. My new account is now showing ranges. Is this the same for all of you?

If so, what can we now use to do our keyword research?

When I posted my message in August, everything was normal for me. Now I have the same problem as you, I get exactly the same results as you: ranges rather than specific figures. It is very frustrating.

It's true that I use only Google Keyword Planner for SEO purposes and I do not spend any money in Adwords. Do people who spend money with Adwords continue to have the precise results we had before?

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JohnMcCabe

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Sven300

It's true that I use only Google Keyword Planner for SEO purposes and I do not spend any money in Adwords. Do people who spend money with Adwords continue to have the precise results we had before?

There's a huge difference between "precise" and "accurate".

Even when the KWP said there were 5,285 monthly searches, that number was never accurate even if it was precise.

At best, it was a snapshot of an average taken from whichever servers they were taking the data from at the moment. Unfortunately, Papa Google never gave the margin of error.

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Sven300 9 years ago

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

Even when the KWP said there were 5,285 monthly searches, that number was never accurate even if it was precise.

Then, according to you, what is the best tool to have accurate information about keywords?
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- JohnMcCabe 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Sven300
  
  Then, according to you, what is the best tool to have accurate information about keywords?
  
  The only really accurate source I've ever found was my own server logs. Everything else is an estimate at best.
  
  Not only is Google giving "low spending" accounts ranges of searches, as you've noticed, they're also grouping similar terms and giving net results. There was a recent article on MOZblog (I think) that used the example that if "SEO" got 21,000 searches and "search engine optimization" got 12,000 searches, both would show 33,000 searches per month.
  
  The problem with most of the tools out there is that they rely on the Google API, same as KWP.
  
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sun86

9 years ago

What else can we use?

KWP is out of the question. How do you all plan on doing your keyword research going forward.

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Sven300

9 years ago

I've just done a little research:

Google officially throttling Keyword Planner data for low spending AdWords accounts
Not a big AdWords spender? You may notice a lack of data in your Keyword Planner account.

Earlier this week, some marketers noticed that Keyword Planner data was displaying ranged data instead of precise search volume. The ranges were wildly broad, with results like “100K–1M” and “1M+.” Some wondered whether this was merely a glitch or if this was a calculated measure that favored higher-spending AdWords advertisers. Today, Google confirmed the latter.

At the end of June, Keyword Planner was acting up, and many users got the message that they needed to have an active AdWords account in order to see the data. This, of course, drew the ire of users everywhere......”
http://searchengineland.com/google-o...ccounts-255795

So I think it's definitely dead for those of us who do not want to spend regularly on advertising with Google. Frustrating!

P.S. But maybe we can use http://www.bing.com/toolbox/keywords ?

P.P.S. I do not feel that Bing can provide generic data based on their search engine. (As did Google Keyword Planning) Bing simply give data based on the activity of our own website.

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9 years ago

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Sven300 9 years ago

Originally Posted by automathings

How about Alexa's keyword research feature? They have a free 7 day trial.

I do not know if Alexa is good? I heard that Majestic was valid?

Originally Posted by Chain lee

... because now we can get the exact search volume of any keywords.

I guess you mean that now we can not get?
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Chain lee

9 years ago

I am not happy with this update, because now we can get the exact search volume of any keywords.

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Banned 9 years ago

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dave_hermansen

9 years ago

Works great if you advertise with them. If not, I'm not sure which tools will work well in the future since so many of them are dependent upon search volumes they scrape from Keyword Planner.

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mukeshkr5683

9 years ago

Of course that is sit still working. It's the first place I go when I need to do some keyword research for any website and business. There is many alternative option are available apart from keyword planner that are Google Trends, Majestic SEO Keyword Checker, Word stream Keyword Planner and SEMrush

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BeingSwaggatron

9 years ago

Google has started to favor the super-users. Like Return on Investments for those who pay them! Other tools listed by @mukeshkr5683 are choices worth trying.

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Tonester

9 years ago

Google is now restricting access to the data in the Keyword Planner.

See this article for the info:
Google AdWords Begins Restricting Keyword Planner Data for Non-Advertisers

Unfortunately, nothing you can do about it except to advertise with them.

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