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.

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.

SearchAnyway does not allow traffic from some PPC search engines like:

• Enhance
• Findology
• GoClick
• Looksmart
• Searchfeed

Google Payload recommends using some of these PPC search engines, which is clearly against SearchAnyway’s recommendations. SearchAnyway prefers traffic from 1st-tier PPC search engines, which probably means they like Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN adCenter.

Here’s the official proof straight from SearchAnyway’s publisher screen:

Notice the bold text “Any Affiliate who can send us high-quality 1st-Tier arbitrage traffic for 1 month will have a rev-share increase of 5%, and will receive higher bids from our premium feed“.

The default revenue share is 60% of the click value of their ads. What is cool about SearchAnyway is you can find out the click value of your desired keywords. It’s right on their home page at the “Bid Checker” section. This makes PPC arbitrage so much easier than Google AdSense because with Google, you can’t really know how much Google is going to pay you until you see the actual payouts in your account. Furthermore, Google really hates people this PPC arbitrage thing, therefore it would be very difficult to do it with Google AdWords and Google AdSense.

SearchAnyway has a lot of search engine templates. I am sure you have stumbled upon web sites like these. This is what SearchAnyway specializes in and they have made it easy for their publishers with a lot of nice templates.

I have not tested SearchAnyway yet so I can’t say how good it is for me. I will test it out and let you guys know how it goes.