Comments on: Keyword Data Is Often Very Skewed – Internet Marketers To Blame?

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:27:51 +0000

I think the important thing to remember here is that it is all relatively accurate. Like comparing alexa stats for two similar sites in the same industry. The trend is what is the important data, not how accurate the numbers are.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:52:06 +0000

Fixed that now Dave – sorry.

Actually the other thing to note is that lots of (if not most) people search for ‘internet marketing’ and ‘online marketing’ on google.ie – so the geographic identifier in the query very often isn’t used.

Rgds
Richard

By: Dave Callan

Dave Callan — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:41:50 +0000

Hi Richard, there must be a lot of interested parties searching for those terms to check rankings more so than people actually looking for internet marketing services etc. I can tell you I’m #1 for ‘internet marketing ireland’ and am very high for a lot of related terms but see only a dribble of traffic through them. The Irish market is just too small.

Wordze screenshots look good.

ps. surname is spelt with an ‘a’ not an ‘e’

By: Jab

Jab — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:39:10 +0000

What filters are you thinking of? A request is a request no matter if it is done by an internet marketing guy or not. It`s a huge problem, especially for domainers.

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:51:49 +0000

Interesting entry. I think there is fair amount of contamination in each statistical data we collect. So we need to apply filter.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:15:07 +0000

@Gavin – I was the same. Never targeted those phrases. Joked with Alastair at Logon.ie that I’d have to take more of an interest.

@Brian – /shudders/

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:06:46 +0000

“And let’s face it – every man (web designer or not) and his dog is now an Irish SEO expert.”

Couldn’t agree with you more Richard. For better or worse we let people know that, because we feel there is no point promising something you can’t deliver – http://www.atrier.com/blog/services

Interesting thought: You provide so much good information on this blog, did you ever wonder how many SEO experts you’ve spawned yourself?

By: Gavin

Gavin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:58:46 +0000

Interesting post Richard. I would have to admit that I would part of the count of people searching.

Notice how I don’t show up on the first 2 pages for those key phrases? I like to watch what everyone else is doing.