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I recently talked to Carson and I realized I was doing my research all wrong. This frustrated me, but I guess you learn from your mistakes. I was using WordTracker to do all my keyword research. I learned from Carson that using WordTracker is one of the biggest misconceptions that a novice affiliate marketers will make. Why is this? WordTracker gives false results, case and point, I used to do my research based on a keyword from WordTracker and it would tell me that it got 100 searches a day on Google. I would then go through all that hard work of writing articles, making videos, etc and get listed number one on Google only to find that I was getting 10-15 hits per day.
Feeling bummed out after getting number one and getting nearly a fraction of the results I anticipated made me feel like I wasted a ton of time.
I recently talked to Carson and I realized I was doing my research all wrong. This frustrated me, but I guess you learn from your mistakes. I was using WordTracker to do all my keyword research. I learned from Carson that using WordTracker is one of the biggest misconceptions that a novice affiliate marketers will make. Why is this? WordTracker gives false results, case and point, I used to do my research based on a keyword from WordTracker and it would tell me that it got 100 searches a day on Google. I would then go through all that hard work of writing articles, making videos, etc and get listed number one on Google only to find that I was getting 10-15 hits per day.
Feeling bummed out after getting number one and getting nearly a fraction of the results I anticipated made me feel like I wasted a ton of time.
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richard.sauseda
Premium
Ever since Google started showing the actual numbers, I've noticed that all the numbers are over inflated. Google would show 6600 hits and Wordtracker about 600. Can't really believe either one.
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robbied
Premium
I think it's important to get your keyword research from a few sources. Many times Google has 'no data' or shows me the price of a keyword is low - and these values don't help me. So even if WT is inaccurate, it's still results - we just don't know who's truly correct - and does it matter? I check quoted results to see how popular a term is too :)
Jillo
Premium
I think it's important to get your keyword research from a few sources. Many times Google has 'no data' or shows me the price of a keyword is low - and these values don't help me. So even if WT is inaccurate, it's still results - we just don't know who's truly correct - and does it matter? I check quoted results to see how popular a term is too :)
SindriThor
Premium
Wow! I've been using Wordtracker's free keyword tool for quite some time now. I have noticed that there is a difference between WT's results and Google's. I'll just stick with the Google tool from now on. Thanks!
