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"What People Search For - Most
Popular Keywords"
You spent hours
fine-tuning your pages to improve your search engine position. Did you
make certain to misspell a few of those crucial words? The people
searching certainly will. Misspellings, along with X-rated search
requests, are common. Below, a glimpse at some of the searches the
great Internet public is making.
**Live Search Displays**
AltaVista
Real Searches
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/real_searches
You
can see real time searches on the AltaVista web index here, as well as
in other areas such as image searching.
Ask
Jeeves Peek Through The Keyhole
http://www.askjeeves.com/docs/peek/
Shows top
searches at this popular question answering search engine.
MetaCrawler
MetaSpy
http://www.metaspy.com/
Choose to
see either a filtered or non-filtered sample of top, real-time search
terms from this popular meta search service.
Search.com Snoop
http://savvy.search.com/snoop
Shows recent searches on
this popular metasearch service.
Kanoodle Search Spy
http://www.kanoodle.com/spy/
Live display of searches
on this pay-for-placement search engine.
Galaxy StarGazer
http://www.galaxy.com/info/voyeur.html
Shows top searches on the
Galaxy search engine.
Fireball LiveSuche
http://www.fireball.de/voyeur-fireball.fcg
Fireball is one of
Germany's major search services. This page lets you see, in German,
what people are searching for. Hier kvnnen Sie live sehen, was
gerade in Fireball gesucht wird.
Yahoo Shopping: What's
Selling Now
http://st8.yahoo.com/OT
Live
glimpse into what people are buying at the Yahoo's shopping site.
**Top Keyword Lists & Keyword
Databases**
Wordtracker
http://www.wordtracker.com/
The WordTracker service
offers the ability to research what people are
searching for via the popular meta search services of MetaCrawler and
Dogpile. It
provides access to query logs stretching back for two months, which
amounts to
350 million queries or 40 million unique search terms. The database is
also kept
constantly updated, with new data added each week. (Search Engine Watch
members
have access to an in-depth review
of this service.)
Overture
(GoTo) Search Term Suggestion Tool
https://signup.overture.com/s/dtc/signup/
The
link takes you to the Overture (formerly GoTo) sign-up page. On the right-hand
side of the page, in the "Tools" area, click on the "Search
Term Suggestion Tool" link. A new window will open. Enter a term you
wish to research, and you'll be shown how many searches were done for
that term and other terms that include it, for the previous month. If
the link fails to work (Overture moves it around), then you may need to
open an account to access the tool.
Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool
https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=Doc&page=faq.html
Like Overture's tool above, this shows
top queries related to the terms you input, though it doesn't provide
guidance as to frequency. You'll find a link to the tool in the Pricing
and Minimum Clickthrough Requirements, Part 4, of
the AdWords FAQ page.
Espotting Keyword Generator
http://www.espotting.com/advertisers/register01.asp
Allows you research term popularity over
the past 30 days across Espotting's UK paid listings network. To reach
the generator, look for the "Keyword Generator" link just about the
sign-up form.
Lycos 50
http://50.lycos.com/
Forget live search displays. Lycos has realized that all our
searches can
make for great content, if assembled correctly. The Lycos 50 shows top
searches
each week, plus glimpses at what's up-and-coming from the query logs,
along with
other features. Extremely well done -- make it a regular visit!
Yahoo Buzz Index
http://buzz.yahoo.com/
Shows you what's hot and
what's not in terms of search topics at Yahoo. You
can see both "Leaders," what's currently popular, and "Movers,"
what's rising in popularity.
Google Zeitgeist
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
This provides a look at
what people are searching
for at Google.
Disturbing Search
Requests
http://searchrequests.weblogs.com/
Designed to allow people
to share the strange, unusual or disturbing ways
that visitors came to their web sites via searches at search engines.
Be aware
that some of the examples shared may contain sexually-graphic terms which some may find offensive.
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