Yet another overture question ...

[samename]

Hey,

hope someone can explain this to me ... i know overture is not to be taken too seriously .. but i use it alot to judge how many times people are searching for a term and/or full domain name ...

here's what i don't get;

I often get this kind of response to domains with a hyphen in them,

type ... best-cars.com ... ovt 50

type ... best cars.com ... ovt 50

type ... best cars ... ovt some huge figure

then underneath ... I see best cars.com ... ovt 1500

what does this mean?

p.s - the above is just an hypothetical example ... not actual figures

 

[MissFlora]

Some stats..

best car - 4291
best-car - no result
best cars.com - 77

Ok, difference is that "best car" is searched more than best-car because most people do not add in a hyphen in between the two words. Thus, you do not see any result from best-car. But it still shows up the same result as "best car" because when doing a search in a search engine (such as yahoo), most of the time whether there is a hyphen or no does not make a significant search results difference. And the difference with the stats between "best car" & "best cars.com" is also because of the words people typed-in when doing the search. You can't totally rely on OVT but I personally it one of the best way to see if your domain will ever get any pure type-ins.

I hope this helps,
Flora.

 

[samename]

Thanks Miss F , I played around with a few combinations and i also noticed that some people are typing best(space)cars(space).com into the search engine (again ...i'm not talking about the actual results for bestcars)


I've always been amazed at people being so confused as to type a url with extension into a search box but also adding a space between the last keyword in the phrase and ".com" is beyond me ...

it makes me wish i had a lab with 1000 test subjects that i could observe in their odd search habits

 

[ftech]

it makes me wish i had a lab with 1000 test subjects that i could observe in their odd search habits

Wouldn't we all..:lol:


I think OVT scores could be somewhat descieving, the names with OVT have very low CTR for me, and therefore are not so exploitable.

 

[cera]

Another thing (or two) to consider if you use Overture #'s

Overture doesn't differentiate between singular and plural in a search.
Using your "best cars" example - Ovt reports same # of searches for "best cars" as it does for "best car".

That's one reason that I prefer to use digitalpoints tool at http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ that shows Wordtracker results along side Overtures.

You might also consider how many searches are done for "bestcars" (no space) as well. Overture doesn't differentiate between "bestcars" & "best cars" but Wordtracker does.
With some search phrases it can amount to a significant number e.g. "candle making" /1059 daily and "candlemaking" /252 daily.

KinglyDomains.com

 

[dgridley]

Good point, thanks!

Another thing (or two) to consider if you use Overture #'s

Overture doesn't differentiate between singular and plural in a search.
Using your "best cars" example - Ovt reports same # of searches for "best cars" as it does for "best car".

You might also consider how many searches are done for "bestcars" (no space) as well. Overture doesn't differentiate between "bestcars" & "best cars" but Wordtracker does.
With some search phrases it can amount to a significant number e.g. "candle making" /1059 daily and "candlemaking" /252 daily.