You need a Google AdWords account to retrieve Google.com’s statistics. You would assume that the information you get from the software would be similar to what you would get if you check it out at Google AdWords, right? Unfortunately, there is a bug with Keywords Analyzer 7.68, which is the latest version at the time of this post. This software has been around for quite a few years and it is disappointing that it still has bugs like this.

For this example, I did a search on the keyword “acuvue”, in quotes for Google’s phrase matching. Keywords Analyzer gave me 550000 searches and 791000 search results. This made the KEI extremely high. There is something seriously wrong here.

I did a check for the keyword at the Google AdWords keyword tool. What I found was the monthly search count for the phrase match of “acuvue” was only 301000. Keywords Analyzer‘s stats must be wrong. I sent a support ticket to the author of the software he said, “At this point KA does not keep track where the data was downloaded so it doesn”t know whether it needs to multiply by 30 or not”.

Wow! You don’t know where the data was downloaded from? I thought I selected Google and entered my Google AdWords account information.

Another problem with this software is it does not display the CPC prices of the keywords in the main window. You need to click on another button to get the CPC prices of the keywords. You cannot compare and sort the keywords by CPC and that is frustrating for me.

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Keywords Analyzer seems like a great software if you do some PPC arbitrage. You may scan for the CPC prices from some PPC search engines to find potential keywords to bid on. Other than Google.com, you may use a few other keyword sources for your searches.

Conclusion

Save your money. There should be better keyword research software.

This keyword list changes every time you refresh the page. I discovered that Keywords Analyzer gets it’s keyword source from this keyword list when you use the “brainstorm” feature. I thought this keyword list was really great at first until I created a little PHP script below to grab all the possible keywords into a text file…

What I did was to keep on checking the site for new keywords. I did it for a couple of hours and grabbed a total of 954 unique keywords. I came to the conclusion that this keyword list is a gimmick! Google doesn’t update this list of keywords. My script returned 954 unique keywords last year and it Google is still returning the same old 954 unique keywords this year!

I contacted Google to find out if they have some sort of API to retrieve the latest search keywords made by their users. From what I found out, there isn’t such a service yet. Therefore, if you see any keyword research software claiming they have Froogle (Google Product Search) keywords as one of their sources, you might as well just download the 954 unique keywords from my blog!