Yahoo keyword tool dead

September 17th, 2007

It appears that the Yahoo keyword suggestion tool is no more - whether this is long term or short term case is still open to debate. Data updates for the US were stopped in January 2007, and the UK data followed in May 2007. However as of late last week (week ending 16th September 2007), the keyword tool stopped returning results, leaviing many small and medium search marketing specialists short of a statistical basis for keyword research. So are there any other solutions…

Google external keyword tool

URL: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Thoughts:

Quite useful in terms of working out popularity of terms, however is a little lacking when it comes to predicting traffic volumes.

WordTracker

URL: http://www.wordtracker.com/

Thoughts:

For a UK SEO I would suggest using WordTracker only with the UK data. However it should be noted this is a payable option with pricing as follows:

• £15 per week
• £29 per month
• £149 per year

Keyword Discovery

URL: http://www.keyworddiscovery.com

Thoughts:

Very thorough, and more pricey.

Yahoo suggestion tool Mark II

URL: ?
Thoughts:

Not much we can say about this. RustyBrick from SearchEngineRoundtable has suggested there may be one on the way. Only time will tell

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