Keyword Research Pro Review

The Keyword Research Pro keyword research software is one of my favourites but I have to tell you there are some major bugs in this software and the customer support is terrible.

The problem with a lot of keyword software is they grab data from Google.com “illegally”, which means they do not use the legitimate way of getting data from Google through APIs. You may get a lot of Google stats from the Google AdWords API but it isn’t free.

What happens when you program a software to simulate searches? You’re getting results from your country and you will eventually hit a “Google block” on your IP address for making too many searches. Google isn’t stupid. They know it is virtually impossible for a human being to search a few thousand times in a short period of time.

I thought the software could simulate USA searches if I selected USA as the source but it does not work. The main problem for me while I was trying out the Keyword Research Pro was the number of ads and results returned in the software. I searched from a Thailand-based internet connection and the number of Google AdWords ads was close to zero for most keywords. The only way I could get around this was to use a good USA proxy server to simulate a search from a USA-based internet connection. This may not me an issue for Americans but it is for everyone else who isn’t living in the USA.

The Keyword Research Pro resembles Niche Inspector in many ways. It is simple and elegant without any fancy terms that isn’t already known in the SEO industry. I like the KEI, R/S, searches, results, number of Google ads and average CPC costs. You may even get stats from Yahoo and MSN.

Keyword Research Pro should not have copied Niche Inspector’s terrible customer support. Niche Inspector has been abandoned. The web site is up but users of the software cannot use the software because of the licensing problem. The author seems to have disappeared from the planet and isn’t answering any support emails.

Sebastian Kohl, the author of the software, ignored most of my emails but one. I sent him about 5 emails and only received 1 reply to him and nothing about the bugs that I discovered. The weirdest thing was the email address on his web site seems to be useless since he does not seem to reply to that email. Instead, try replying to the free trial email he sent you.

Since I had a bad experience with Niche Inspector, I am not willing to take a risk with the Keyword Research Pro because the author does not seem interested in keeping the software up to date. If the issues I raised were fixed, I would rate this software above anything I have reviewed so far.