Google Updates Keyword Tool - If you Focus on Local Search, this affects you.
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Up until now, when selecting a particular country to focus search statistics results on, Google has returned two important columns of Data. These were:
- Average Monthly Search Volume
- Search Volume for March (Or whatever the previous Month is)
This has now changed. The two columns of data that are now returned are:
- Local Search Volume: March (or whatever the previous month is)
- Global Monthly Search Volume
This affects me in a few different ways.
Firstly, I can now no longer see an average search volume for a keyword for a specific country, only the search volume for the previous month. That is bad as I rely on the average more than the previous month data to determine the viability of a particular keyword.
Secondly, If you select "All Countries and Territories" you still get the "Local Search Volume" column which means they are using your IP address to determine the Local Search volume data, I hope this does not affect the numbers when searching for a country other than the one you are in.
I need to research more into this, so will feedback more concrete information as and when I discover it, but it would be great to hear what other people's views are of this. I believe the change took place on the 22nd of April, so I assume other people have noticed this as well.
Thanks
Nick
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