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Hello from Wordtracker

Over recent months we have been developing a new tool. We intend that the Keyword Researcher will replace our current multiple searches and would really appreciate feedback from Wordtracker members. If you have an account with us and would like to help us please can you go to the members homepage where you will see the link.

All comments will be of great help to us!

Please email me if you have any questions at support@wordtracker.com

Kind Regards


Anne Curtis
Customer Support Manager
Wordtracker

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Edited, my first post was rude:

Would it not be far more effective to email your users that have accounts ;-)

[Flightmapping]

Normally, I'd agree with you as this was a bit of a spammy post. But I still use Wordtracker from time to time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

When I first signed up, I was blown away by all the features it offered. Now, how much is really surprising, and what is the real point in KEI anymore. What does WT do that Good Keywords, Google etc can't already do to some extent?

And just how far out are those predictions anyway, they don't seem right.

Wordtracker still sits there in the SEO toolbox. I think my subs run out this week. I will probably renew it in a couple of months - but I'm no longer in a position where the price would worry me.

I think WT could have progressed so much more by now, and if these improvements are part of this, then I'd be glad to see what happens.

I hope that Anne will at least stick around to respond on these points - otherwise the above post really will have been nothing but spam. But as I've continued this here, and not as a feedback to WT themselves (which would at most only be a two way dialogue), I'd like to relate this issue to affiliate marketing.

If I was a supplier of blue widgets in Anyville, I could happily use WT in the hope that it would set me apart from the other suppliers of blue widgets in my town. But affiliates will go where the earnings are highest, generally chasing searches for widgets generally across the whole country (or globallly). We all start with the same data. How we intepret it might be very different, hence my issues with KEI.

Now I don't know if there are other companies out there making such tools, but if WT could be customised along the lines of:

Who's searching?
For what?
Where?

Which keywords can I automatically eliminate?
Which ones are "super juicy"?

and then........

Who's competing?
Considering how I rate my SEO abilities, how far up the organic SERPS might I get?
Which keywords can I outshine my competitors on?

And so on, don't want to give too many ideas away here!

[annic]

Hi there

... and thanks for taking the time to reply.

To be honest, we are thinking along similiar lines. Please watch this space...!

Regards

Anne

[Flightmapping]

Anne,

Thanks for coming back. Any further developments?

My WT account is currently expired, but I will keep it in mind for next time I do some keyword research - something I guess I do a lot less often these days. Part of the reason is simply the effort involved in trying to work out a relationship between:

What people are searching for
How we can beat the competition for these terms
How much traffic we can then generate for each term
How this will convert to advertising revenue
What our ultimate ROI is.

For now, I'd rather just get waffling, and hope that some of it works. This seems just as effective as going to the trouble of doing all the analysis. By the time I've worked out those magic phrases to target, I could already have several pages of good quality content ready.

But if there is a secret formula, I'm still open to learn about it