Comments on: Does Worktracker Work?

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:25:51 +0000

Unfortunately, WT has been having more and more issues as they attempt to keep their results relevant. Everyone who uses WT has seen, in some cases, VERY skewed results. When I was younger I actually bought a domain and started a site due to bunk WT results, only to find later that the searches per day we much less (about 1% of what was reported).

I have heard that KD is more accurate but have not tried. If you use WT and find a kw that has incredible searches and KEI (which, as the other poster meteioned is hardly accurate), and you want to know if you hit the jackpot, simply type the kw into google and then check to see the PPC requency. If the PPC on the right goes all the way to the bottom, chances are the searches are high.

By: gilby

gilby — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:19:44 +0000

I’ve tried Wordtracker and also Market Samurai. I prefer Market Samurai. Lots more data and help.

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:16:08 +0000

Thanks Hilton, I’ve always thought the results are a little skewed because of some very weird terms which I got very high KEI for, I think the best thing to do is to really go for something niche based on our own webmastering experience!

By: Hilton Rutgers

Hilton Rutgers — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:19:16 +0000

Hi, It is best not to pay too much attention to KEI. KEI is no longer an effective keyword measurement and should not really be relied on. WordTracker get the data from dogpile, webcrawler and metacrawler... meta search engines, so their data would be skewed to the demographics of users that use these meta engines. You should also compare your results with all the other keyword tools: Google KeywordDiscovery Like WordTracker but has more data from the main search engines, such as Google, Yahoo etc.. Overture this source is a bit skewed so best not to take their search counts too seriously. Cheers Hilton

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:14:03 +0000

Has anybody had any success with WordTracker? I mean, if all the gurus are recommending it, there must be some truth that the tool does work isn’t it?

By: Amrit Hallan

Amrit Hallan — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:53:08 +0000

I’ll depend more on my “educated” hunch I would say. Do some research, keep your antennas sniffing for new ideas, ask around. Or you yourself may need something. For instance they guys at MovableType made the blogging software for themselves initially, and then afterwards they started distributing it.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:49:49 +0000

My hunch, but i don’t really like tools to do my research for me if i want to do research i will do it for myself now type in some keywords on a website that is their just to make money out of us for that i would rather use Google which is free.