Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

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Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

Quick question. Is anybody else getting really strange results out of the Keyword Selector Tool at Yahoo? I just did a search for Los Angeles, and apparently all people are searching for are cars. These were the results I got:

Searches done in April 2006
Count	Search Term
350883	toyota los angeles
333459	honda los angeles
280591	bmw los angeles
279022	chevrolet los angeles
238133	ford los angeles
226776	mercedes benz los angeles
181748	nissan los angeles

Either everyone in Los Angeles is buying a new car, which could be, or the inventory tool needs a complete engine rebuild. Just wondering if anyone can shed a little light on this.

Did a quick check on Google based on keyword popularity and here's what this tool gave me as the top variations:

los angeles, los angeles hotels, los angeles ca, los angeles california

That seems to make more sense

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Print | posted @ Monday, May 15, 2006 8:42 AM

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re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by Surfdog at 5/16/2006 7:20 AM

I dug a little bit on this, and it shows up for a huge swath of place names - mostly cities, but some counties and states as well. Can't imagine any kind of promotion that'd tweak only Yahoo's numbers this way and for all those different car companies...

Maybe someone's been jackhammering Yahoo with an automated ranking query tool like WebPosition? (I'm looking for some kind of legitimate reason, however farfetched.)

re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by Confused at 5/25/2006 7:41 AM

I've recently seen some very odd results too... seems like the "geographic" searches are appearing more and more.

Is this Yahoo's not-so-subtle way of pushing the importance of local/geo targetting? Or, is the tool just broke?

Either way, I've never trusted their numbers. They combine/mash queries together too much for my taste...

# re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by Doyen at 5/25/2006 8:33 AM

I have definatly noticed this and it seems to occur for more than just regionals ads. I searched "wage hour", which applies to human resource managers and the third most common result is spelled wrong.

663 compliance field hour represe3ntative wage

I find it hard to believe that 663 searches were made one this. If this is the case, our country has serious problems.

# re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by video converter download at 5/29/2007 11:39 PM

I Saw "Searches done in January 2007" now! Yahoo! has put it down.

re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by senthil at 9/13/2007 9:56 PM

Dear members,

I using yahoo!'s Keyword Selector tool. Since is not working properly from yesterday onwards.

Hey any one can tell you why this problem has occur and how we can overlook.

Do u know other tool like yahoo to find the keyword selection and keyword variations..

If any one suggest me, it would be great.

Thanks and With Warm regards,
Senthilvel S.P.

re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by Cheryl at 9/14/2007 11:09 AM

At least some of you are getting results. I've typed in very common words and I'm not getting any results at all. It's not working for me and I'm on the west coast. What's up with it and can anyone suggest another site just as accurate?

re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by Eileen Kinsella at 9/18/2007 10:19 AM

I've been going to a bunch of different keyword selector tools and all I get is an "error" or "nothing found".

# re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by Alex at 3/10/2008 6:31 AM

They have some other options here:

ez-hunt.com

Check all the way to the bottom right under webmaster tools

Yahoo is comming up with a new tool soon, the current tool is not working well and you shouldn't spend time with it.
I have a link here to the google and some other keyword tool options.

# re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by Andy at 4/12/2008 1:07 AM

Word Tracker is a good tool.

Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool seems to be outdated, and it's loading really hard.

# re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by SearchBliss at 6/12/2008 7:44 PM

This tool has been dead for some time now. I can't even get the page to load, yet it is still #1 on Google for "keyword selector". Yahoo doesn't care about keeping it alive. They have too many other problems to deal with.

# re: Yahoo's Keyword Selector Tool Broken?

by Andrei at 10/4/2008 9:17 AM

Yes, it is dead now, but the url redirects to http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/.

I really liked Yahoo keyword selector tool.