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September 24, 2007

Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool has Returned

Fear not, my friends. It appears that our report last Monday about Yahoo! Overture being dead was a bit premature. According to WebmasterWorld members, the Yahoo! Overture Keyword Tool is back. The optimistic hopefuls have revived the useful tool from the dead.

Here's a search I performed just a few minutes ago.

Yahoo Overture Returns 9/24

Contrast that with the screenshot I created last week:

Goodbye, Overture

It definitely looks like it's working, and it's using data from January 2007. Other forum members report that it's showing May data. I suppose it may vary per search term but I'm unable to get May data.

Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.



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posted Tamar Weinberg in Keyword Research at September 24, 2007 9:49 AM Comments (10)

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The data is a bit old, thou. As i remember from a while back they gave out last months data...

 

Posted by Priit at September 24, 2007 11:27

Data for the US: January (just before Panama)
Data for Europe: May (just before Panama)

 

Posted by Sunray at September 24, 2007 12:04

I was actually able to run quite a few searches without it erroring out on me as well. Even though the data is old it still beats the paid sites in my opinion. Here's my take http://www.justindavy.com/overture-keyword-selector-tool-is-back/

 

Posted by Justin at September 24, 2007 16:21

What a news ! Unfortunately, data is really old and now, I prefer to use Yahoo Panama to have keywords suggest... I don't understand Yahoo. Overture is a good point for popularity company and now, they decided to "delete it". If someone do a keyword suggest and obtain results from August 2007, call me :)

 

Posted by Ramenos at September 25, 2007 10:00

I am surprised and wondered why "yahoo" wouldn't update their data????

 

Posted by Quanvuong at September 26, 2007 10:49

Overture's keyword suggestion tool would be better served if it was more relevant. 10 month old information will not do an internet marketing specialist much good.

 

Posted by No Name at September 27, 2007 12:27

has been working all the time, but the data is from Jan 07 :( I spoke with yahoo reps and they said it won't be back.

 

Posted by No Name at September 27, 2007 15:06

I have to say that the one good thing about having this tool down was that it helped many of us develop new research techniques. Hopefully a new version is in the works or at least newer data.

 

Posted by Matt at October 12, 2007 14:37

Overture Dead again? its jan 08 and while it was working in oct it sure isn't now. please email me if anyone knows about any other tool some where

 

Posted by Denver at January 15, 2008 15:39

When i try to open the overture keyword suggestion tool it redirects to this page: http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/ .. some yahoo stuff.. argh it's so annoying.. where is the original overture keyword tool??

 

Posted by No Name at September 17, 2008 03:53

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