Striking gold at Yahoo!

For those always on the lookout for free keyword research tools it always pays to view some of the tools search engines provide from a slightly different viewpoint.

Yahoo's! new Search Assist - though not perfect - can significantly help provide you with other keywords that could be of extra help whilst carrying out keyword research for yourselves or clients.

Here's a screen shot:










My only criticism is that the list is not long enough. The term "accountant" only yielded 11 extra results. I'd expect 30 to 50 results might be a better figure to work from but then Yahoo! is providing Search Assist for it's user base rather than us SEO'ers...

Still it could turn out to be small SEO goldmine.

Yahoo Design Pattern Library

I found this link to Yahoo's Library of Design Patterns this morning.

A fascinating and informative website and I would recommend it highly - especially if you are in the fields of web design, usability and online marketing.

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Is Overtures/Yahop's Keyword Tool now gone for good?

I hear on the grapevine that the External Keyword Tool provided by Overture is now defunct - is this true?

If it is then it would have been nice for Yahoo to have put a message on the site saying it was no longer available.... rather than let me sit there trying to reload the page - which does not load any longer.

Not exactly my idea of good service (even if I was not a paying customer!)

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Overture's Keyword Tool quits!

Quits? Not really... well kind of... more of a "it keeps quitting on me!"

I know its a free tool (and heh I pay for a yearly subscription to Wordtracker too!) but I keep getting:

"The server at inventory.overture.com is taking too long to respond"

And quite frankly its becoming a pain in the arse!

I haven't got time to sit around and keep entering in research keywords to get no response. It's 7.52am so I doubt the American market is giving it a hammering... so whats up with Overture's keyword tool?

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