Matt McGee (you may know him as the Small Business SEM guy) made a nice post about the new free keyword research tool I released. He sent me an email last night with a few questions but I didn’t have time to answer (sorry Matt!) before he published. So here are the answers to those questions and a few others I have been getting.

Where do you get all that data from?

There are several engines that offer live feeds of their searches. Keyword Curious has have several bots that aggregate and store their data.

Do you filter the data at all?

Yes Keyword Curious filters out navigational queries and some queries that are anomolies ( too long, just random characters, etc. ).

What do those numbers mean?

Keyword Curious does not guess at or estimate search volume like most keyword research tools. My personal belief is that most of the metrics the other tools give are bullshit. The numbers are simply the number of times the query phrase was recorded. The numbers are useful to compare phrases to other phrases in a “keyword theme” to determine the phrases relative popularity in that theme.

As an example, say your searching for terms related to real estate in New York. You might search for “homes ny”, “mortgages ny”, and “new construction new york” then save the results to a common keyword basket called “new york real estate”. After you save the terms to the same basket you would then compare the relative popularity of the terms.

I need help how do I contact you?

I have added a contact form to the tool. All correspondence is read and acted on but I probably won’t answer it personally. Sorry there just aren’t enough hours in the day.

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