Seemingly out of thin air Google has decided to reveal their search volume data to the public. I don’t know about you but I am very excited about this. No more guessing or using highly inaccurate tools such as overture yahoo keyword tool. Over and over I hear common, everyday people say “Google it!” and I think this new revealing of google search data proves that is exactly what we do. Just for illustration purposes I want to show you just how radically different Googles actual search volume is compared to Yahoo or MSN and how this new data can help us be more accurate in how and where we compete in growingly competitive industry.
If you have ever wanted to know the search volume data for Google your prayers have been heard or atleast your getting your wish. You can now see the the actual search volume for any keywords in Google. I don’t know about you but this tool just went up to my number two keyword tool over night. I will explain later what tool is my number one keyword tool and exactly why.
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Seems the question of the hour. It never ceases to amaze me how upset some people will get over a loss of PR even if they are not selling links. And even if they can see no loss in traffic a hit to their PR will send them spinning as if they had been cursed. The latest changes in Google toolbar PR for October 2007 are no different, except perhaps this time the buzz is getting a bit more wild then ever before. And rightly so, many of the largest authority sites on the web are losing several pagerank points. But the question is why? What is going on? Am I being penalized? What can I do to return my pagerank to its previous status. Keep reading and I will share with you the REAL story behind the recent Google pagerank changes. It may enlighten you…

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Fairly recently around the middle of May 2007 Google began bringing up videos from YouTube(now owned by Google), Google videos and other video sources in their main results. If Google finds a video relevant to your search it may be displayed with sites.  These videos can be watched right in the google search window, no clicking out is necessary. This makes it easy for users to watch the video OVER clicking a result. So far these video results have not been overwhelming however they do seem to rank quite well especially if any mention in the search is made up “video/s”, “clip”, or other words which could insinuate the user might be inclined to listen to a movie.  However regular searches return these videos as well.

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I have been promising this article for a while but was waiting till I had more data in. I have done extensive research and I feel I have now done enough research to atleast provide a basic understanding of this new technology and its effects on your site and mine, how we can combat any problems this may cause our site and how we can actually benefit from it.

The data I will be presenting will be based on my own research, and research done by other participants at SeoChat and 100 anonymous participants who were kind enough to donate their time.

I hope this article helps you better understand what effects Googles behavior factoring has on you site. Please be sure to post your comments and thoughts.

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