Overture Keyword Selector Tool Stops

More news from Overture (or Yahoo! Search Marketing). I have just recieved confirmation from the Yahoo! Search marketing Team that they are dropping the Overture Keyword Selector Tool.

They are replacing it with the YSM Keyword Research tool.

An email I recieved from Yahoo! stated the following:

"The Keyword Selector Tool has been replaced with the Keyword Research tool.
This tool includes the option to find not just variations to keywords but related subjects and finding keywords based on the content of your website.

This tool is built into your Yahoo! Search Marketing account and can be found under the Add Keywords link or under selecting keywords when adding a new Campaign or Ad Group."

Although the Tool has been down for 3 days now, it still works occasionaly. I've managed to run some queries and I don't know if it's allready being taken down, but it doesn't look promising.

The SlowSEO.com Keyword Selector Tool depends on Overture for it's data. If this service stops no new updates can be run. I'm very sorry.

However! I am allready testing new sources and a new database is being filled with new keyword information. Please also remember that our database allready contains 130.000 keywords and you'll probably find what you need.

It's still a pitty though as Overture provided free quantative data that no other tools could beat. The new Tool Yahoo! Search Marketing offers just shows volume bars, wich in my oppinion show relative search volumes. I think this is a damn pitty as a business now cannot get a grasp on actual search volumes.

It's basically providing the same as Google Adwords is already doing. And it looks like no free raw data will be provided by any of the major Search Engines in the near future. A damn pitty!

I'll keep you posted on how SlowSEO.com will handle this and I'm possitive our tool will survive.

Added on: January 28, 2007 - 1:33 pm