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[compar]

P.S. $7 for a DSL connection in Canada? Bargain. It's currently about $30 (US) here in the UK for a 512k connection! Will now be creating a new topic called 'relocating my www.thephonecafe.com business to Canada'!

The current price of Wordtracker is 28 pounds per month or $44.69 US. That works out to $62.00 per month Canadian. The cost of a residential DSL connection from the major phone companies is $29.95 per month in Canada.

I think Wordtracker is a great tool but it is overpriced by that comparison.

[Peter]

Hi everybody,

In this page : Keyword suggestion tools you can find some free keyword resources.

I hope they are helpful.

Regards,

Peter

[keli]

Typo city... thanks Mel.

What about GoogleCount.com? I've used it but still see limitations as to what info I'm looking for. I'm getting ranking reports with this tool rather than popularity of a keyword phrase - which is what I'd like - based upon what people are searching for in Google of course You can extrapolate some good statistics from this tool; I'm not knocking it at all, just doesn't do what I want.



Thanks,
KeliE.com

[idrive]

What I like about WordTracker over the trial version is it's efficiency! Recently a client emailed me a spreadsheet she had started on her keywords, demographics, etc. I cleaned it up to a nice column and imported it into WordTracker! Wowsers! With the trial version it would have been two days of copy and paste ;-)

The only drawback with this method is that you don't then get similar words to those entered (unless I missed this option) in the same way as if you had entered them one at a time.

I purchase a day at a time (living in Canada I will agree that it is incredibly expensive) and am now aiming to have more than one client at a time for whom to do research :-)

[Mel]

P.S. $7 for a DSL connection in Canada? Bargain. It's currently about $30 (US) here in the UK for a 512k connection! Will now be creating a new topic called 'relocating my www.thephonecafe.com business to Canada'!

The current price of Wordtracker is 28 pounds per month or $44.69 US. That works out to $62.00 per month Canadian. The cost of a residential DSL connection from the major phone companies is $29.95 per month in Canada.

I think Wordtracker is a great tool but it is overpriced by that comparison.

HI Bob;
I fail to see how you can compare the cost of DSL to Wordtracker which is in a totally different field?? Kind of like comparing the cost of apples and fish.

If the price of $42 per month is too steep, then just use the daily option, which works out to about $7 per day, and which is enough to do all your keyword research for one customer. I feel that the $7 is well worth it to ensure that my customer has the benefit of the best keyword research I can do for them.

[Mel]

Typo city... thanks Mel.

What about GoogleCount.com?  I've used it but still see limitations as to what info I'm looking for.  I'm getting ranking reports with this tool rather than popularity of a keyword phrase - which is what I'd like - based upon what people are searching for in Google of course   You can extrapolate some good statistics from this tool; I'm not knocking it at all, just doesn't do what I want.



Thanks,
KeliE.com

Hi Keli:

Googlecount.com appears to me to be a web based ranking tool, reporting the ranking of your pages for various keywords, and as such gives you no information on the popularity of keywords.

BTW Google frowns on the use of automated query tools like this.

[keli]

BTW Google frowns on the use of automated query tools like this.

GoogleCount.com uses Googles own API service actually. To use Google Web API you have to have your own license key, which you get from Google after you agree to their TOS.

http://www.googlecou...om/faq.php#gen1

[Mel]

Nice to know that Keli, but if they are using the Google api, why pay them for it when there are several free tools?

Interesting note:
Google says
"One condition is you cannot create a commercial service using Google Web APIs without first obtaining written consent from Google"

[JamesW]

Hey,

Is WordTracker equally good (or bad, depending on your viewpoint!) value for Pay-Per-Click terms AND search optimisation?

Cheers,

James

[compar]

I fail to see how you can compare the cost of DSL to Wordtracker which is in a totally different field?? Kind of like comparing the cost of apples and fish.

If the price of $42 per month is too steep, then just use the daily option, which works out to about $7 per day, and which is enough to do all your keyword research for one customer. I feel that the $7 is well worth it to ensure that my customer has the benefit of the best keyword research I can do for them.

I agree that I'm not comparing apples with apples, but in this regard there is no similar service or product that I know of that is directly comparable price wise. Therefore all I can do is compare the utility of two different Internet related services. It strikes me that the benifit of a full time DSL connection, which provides access to the entire web and email services far outweight a limited use tool such as Wordtracker.

But lets do the cost comparison another way. Lets compare the price of one software package with another. Say Wordtracker with Microsoft XP Pro. We all know Microsoft's prices are aggressive if not atrocious but Wordtracker is $223.00 per year and XP Pro which you can use for an unlimited time is $249.99 on Amazon. Given that we normally run an operating system for at least a couple of years this makes Wordtracker twice as expensive as XP Pro.

The name of this thread is WordTracker -- Worth The Money? I just happen to think it is overpriced. BTW my cost in Canadian dollars is $62 per month or $10 per day.

I have problems with the one day license because unless you are completely organized you can be distracted by some emergency and your day goes by without either starting or finishing your keyword research. The one week price is doubly atrocious so I buy a month at a time when I have a few projects.

What do I think would be a fair price? How about $15.00 per month or $120 per year?

[Mel]

IMO the value of wordtracker is the ability to get ranked lists of relevant keywords quickly and relatively accurately.

While I think that even the daily subscription at $7 is well worth the time saved, I buy the annual subscription at $200 which is less than $17 per month, which means if it only saves me half an hour a month I am ahead of the game.

[keli]

Nice to know that Keli, but if they are using the Google api, why pay them for it when there are several free tools?

I can run analysis on our 1000 keywords (45,000 page site) and get some nice reports - see daily changes, etc. What are the free tools that will do this? I'm all ears!

[keli]

What do I think would be a fair price? How about $15.00 per month or $120 per year?

Don't you just include the Wordtracker cost in your SEO proposal for your clients? My first SEO client after the purchase of Wordtracker paid for the service (yearly) many times over. It's just another cost of doing business wouldn't you say??

[Mel]

Hi Keli:
you can go here and download the Free Gapis search tool, then go Here register and get your free licnese key which allows you to do 1000 queries per day.

[dragonlady7]

The only insight I have into Wordtracker is that after I used their free option (I just wanted to poke around and see what it was about; I know what keywords I need to optimize for for the only project I'm doing), they aggressively telemarketed to me. I got calls from them (hard sell) and from another service that couldn't have gotten my name and number any other way.

That made me very uncomfortable, and so I won't be using them again-- certainly not with my real number. It was incautious and silly of me to trust them like that.