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September 17, 2007

Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool Seems Dead

A DigitalPoint Forums member reports that the Yahoo! Overture Keyword Tool is no longer providing results.

I reproduced this as illustrated below.

It looks like the Overture tool is finally gone unless this is a bug. YahooSarah said in January that Overture would be offline until an updated product was released. Does this mean the product is ready? After all, in May, Yahoo stopped updating the Overture tool. It has been four months so hopefully a new tool will be announced shortly.

Since so many tools use the Overture API, I certainly hope that this is the case. DigitalPoint Forums members agree.

Forum discussion continues at DigitalPoint Forums.

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posted Tamar Weinberg in Keyword Research at September 17, 2007 9:44 AM Comments (18)

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Considering that I've been reading that universal search and other methods are working to change and even remove the [lack of better word] strength of keywords - I'm wondering if they have something new or just gave up. ????
I hope it is something new....

Posted by omadsense at September 17, 2007 09:55

Yep... it seems dead. I'm using Keyword Elite and since there are no overture results, I can't even get KEI and R/S infos. Hope they come out with something new too. :(

Posted by Phillip at September 17, 2007 10:38

Anyone have any other tools they recommend?

Thanks
Phillip

Posted by Phillip at September 17, 2007 10:41

Phillip - I really like Google's tool.....
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Posted by Yaniv at September 17, 2007 14:02

Overture keyword tools is one of the most usuable keyword research tool... and its seems dead now from many weeks...

Waiting for their update now...

Posted by No Name at September 18, 2007 01:51

Keyword Discovery has a number of databases. Although they also show Overture results, I rarely use those except as corroboration when I sense there might be an aberration in the main KD databases.

Posted by David Leonhardt at September 18, 2007 08:15

Arrrgggghhh....can't live without my tools!!!

Posted by Mike B. Geeks.com at September 19, 2007 15:07

I think, it was a very good tool ...

Posted by Jan at September 19, 2007 16:10

Can anyone recommend a tool for Australian results. I'm struggling to find something that was good as the Overture Tool. Lets hope this is temporary and they a Yahoo releases the new tool.

Posted by Trung at September 19, 2007 20:31

It was working for me this morning (9/21/2007 @ 9:28 CST). Check it again.

Posted by Jeff Woelker at September 21, 2007 10:28

don't worry, we can use google adword tools.

Posted by Heru at December 9, 2007 20:04

I like the counter with overture. Google doesn't supply a monthly counter.

Posted by No Name at December 27, 2007 04:16

Overture keyword is not dead you can find it here http://pixelfast.com/overture/

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Posted by pak-pak at January 23, 2008 23:40

It's there but (1) times out far too frequently, and (2) is showing results from January 0f 2007, a year out of date... useless.

Posted by Fwed at January 31, 2008 15:20

Just checked all of the information above. I'm not wild about google's keyword tool. Does anybody have others to recommend?

Thanks,
Richard

Posted by Richard Cummings at April 25, 2008 13:33

Two keyword tools I sorta like:

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ (overture mimic)

http://www.kwbrowse.com/ (on the unusual side of original)

Google's tools seem brusque and secretive somehow. Is it just a graph versus number thing?

P.S. I like the overture numbers too, but of course the units are flagrantly fictional. They claim, for example, that in one month 545 people searched for some combination of the keywords "beginning beginning commerce e from from novice novice php postgresql professional professional"

Posted by Bob Stein at May 1, 2008 12:33

Overture was always my primary keyword tool and since it has gone I have been trying to find something similar. I have reently been using Miva which does give a search count. You can find a list of keyowrd tools at http://www.build-a-web-site.co.uk/keyword-tools.html

Posted by Roj at June 13, 2008 07:27

I recently upgraded a tool that may help. It's at www.keywordcalculator.com. Feel free to email any feedback and suggestions you have!

- Shawn

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