Overture’s Keyword Tool Dying – What Are The Alternatives?
There have been some premature reports about the death of the Overture Keyword Suggestion tool. Apparently Yahoo has not killed this tool, it is just running very slowly due to it being overloaded.
YahooSarah has this to say in a DigitalPoint thread:
I wanted to confirm that YSM’s public keyword research tool (formerly known as the Overture’s Keyword Selector Tool- KST) continues to exist today and will continue to exist until we replace it with an improved product. Unfortunately, the responsiveness of this free tool is diminished due to the volume of hits it receives each day, therefore browsers may time out and error pages may appear but it doesn’t mean that this tool has been removed.
We do have plans to offer a new public keyword research tool, which would be hosted through Yahoo! and available to our API partners. We plan on making this new tool available later this year.
Many webmasters who relied on this tool as a free way of finding keyword suggestions, and they won’t be happy about this. Luckily Wordtracker quickly stepped up and have provided a free keyword suggestion tool of their own to use. With this tool, you enter keywords, and it comes back with the top 100 suggested keywords and the estimated daily search volume for those keywords.
Hilton Rutgers Said,
February 2, 2007 @ 2:04 am
And here is the KeywordDiscovery.com – Free keyword research tool. A great free alternative for the Overture tool.
Gives the top 100 results per search from a 35 Billion keyword database.
Cheers
Hilton
Stu Miles - Cheap Targeted Traffic Said,
November 13, 2007 @ 1:13 pm
Hey there everyone,
Just thought I would pop in here and
share real quick.
All the thoughts, tools and ideas
presented are absolutely terrific.
There is just ONE big huge gaping
hole with all the free keyword tools
that services have created to fill
the void of the disappearance and
then reappearance of the Overture tool.
And that is . . . (drum roll please)
Every single FREE keyword tool has
NO capability of saving your keywords
in a basket and managing your projects.
Well — since July of 1994,
NicheBOTclassic.com has been
providing its constantly growing
userbase (currently 13,847 users)
the ability to save their keyword
searches that are done for free. ;o)
I know — it’s okay to feel your
heart pitter-patter and get excited
like a kid in a candy story.
And I’m sure you would agree…
That’s not only what I call
“useful” — but I call that a
solution!
Plus — you also get access to
the Overture tool (while it’s
still alive) at…
=====> NicheBOTclassic.com
You ALSO get to save your
Overture searches. Again, that’s
only until the Overture tool is
taken off the digital shelf.
You can easily create an account
right here:
http://www.nichebotclassic.com/create/
Time to manage your FREE keyword
searches better, don’t ya think? ;o)
And don’t be surprised if you find your-
self telling your friends and business
acquaintances about this clearly
useful and superior resource.
Best wishes,
Stu Miles, Strategic Partner Coordinator
NicheBOTclassic.com and NicheBOT.com
P.S. If you ever have any questions
that I, or my team, can handle, please
let us know at nichebotclassic {AT} gmail.com
Michelle Said,
February 2, 2008 @ 2:09 am
For your keyword research try using KeywordSpy.com – a keyword research technology that will help you know what keywords your competitors are using and how it generates money for them, you can use those keywords to drive traffic to your site and give your business the exposure it needs. It offers Free trials.- http://www.keywordspy.com/