Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool Is Gone
I'm feeling a bit prescient today. Just last week, in my review of Google Wealth Wizard, I made this prediction:
It always amazes me how much the Internet marketing niche itself relies on the Overture suggestion tool. It's a mainstay of every ebook discussing niche discovery, including the three mentioned here. It's also used by many keyword tools, including KE. Given that most people seem to be using it to find niches for AdWords ads and AdSense content, not for Yahoo-related purposes, someday Yahoo! is going to pull the plug on that tool and there will be much panic in the streets as Internet marketers and keyword tool makers scramble to find alternate trusted sources of keyword search data.
That day has in fact arrived — the Overture keyword suggestion tool is now official kaput. A new version of Keyword Elite has already been released to account for this and all signs of Overture have been removed from it. They've already found an alternate source of monthly search data, though they haven't us what it is.
Anyhow, this throws a wrench into various processes that depended on the free Overture data. I'm sure the people at WordTracker and other keyword meta-search engines are quite happy, though.
We'll have to see how this affects the AdSense arbitrage experiment. Michael Plante's book relies heavily on Keyword Elite, so the fact that they've updated the software already probably means that the arbitrage method can be continued to be used as-is. We'll see…
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Eric Giguere is the author of Uncommon AdSense and the award-nominated blog Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense.
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