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    Keyword Difficulty Tool not working!

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    • Resultify
      Resultify last edited by

      I have excatly the same problem. Had it for a few days.

      Just tried it 5 min ago, same result.

      Its a great tool so would love to have it fixed 🙂

      Thanks

      Fredrik

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      • Zoolander
        Zoolander last edited by

        Sometimes it doesn't work for me either.

        Do the exact same keyword queries generate the same results for different users?  For example if the result for Yahoo US on "Mountain Bike" is the same for one SEOmoz user as it is for another.  Could a system that detects keywords used over a certain amount put them in automatically at the next update then store on database that the actual keyword tracker tool bypasses to for those words, while actually working only on other less common words.

        Although I do keep a record of relevant ones, I admit occasionally if I have a list of 100 or so I can forget or not find one I may or may not have done earlier and do it twice.  For shame!

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        • Somondo
          Somondo @Zoolander last edited by

          I am not sure that I understand exactly what you mean my friend but I am quite sure that it is off topic. We are talking about the tool not working at all. Not it working differently depending on the user's details.

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          • Zoolander
            Zoolander @Somondo last edited by

            If not working at all due to being popular and therefore sometimes overloaded with requests, then if it gives the same results for the same queries among different users, common keyword queries could be aggregated into a database (updated as often as the keywords themselves (monthly?) ), for the keyword tool to bypass to for those particular queries, freeing it up for other less regular queries.

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            • Somondo
              Somondo @Somondo last edited by

              Oh ok sorry then for my previous response. I get what you mean now, and of course you're right!

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              • paularu
                paularu last edited by

                Not working here also 😞

                "Uh oh... there was a temporary problem gathering Analysis data for your request. Sorry about that! We're actively looking into resolving these intermittent issues, but in the meantime, try submitting your request again in 20 minutes. Thank you!"

                and I searched this "forums" and I see this has been happening for months now ...

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                • KeriMorgret
                  KeriMorgret @paularu last edited by

                  Hi Paularu,

                  There is a thread from a previous time we had an outage, and someone has added to that thread for this outage, but the keyword difficulty tool has not been down that entire time. It's been down just a couple of days, and while it is a holiday weekend in the US, we do have employees working on getting it fixed as we speak. We'll keep the SEOmoz twitter feed updated as we have more information about the status.

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                  • MDMWorldwide
                    MDMWorldwide last edited by

                    Tool is not working at all. Must see this data to finish work.

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                    • nichemarkettools
                      nichemarkettools last edited by

                      Yep, same issue here. I rely on it so would be great if it could be looked into.

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                      • KeriMorgret
                        KeriMorgret last edited by

                        The tool is down still right now. We're still figuring out ways to get this working right now. We don't have an estimated time for it to be fixed, but will keep Q&A and Twitter updated when we know more information.

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                        • nichemarkettools
                          nichemarkettools last edited by

                          Thanks Keri, it is working correctly for me as of 5 minutes ago.

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                          • hyperdude
                            hyperdude last edited by

                            Still not working. I will wait for the official response.

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                            • JasonPortlandSEO
                              JasonPortlandSEO last edited by

                              My rank tracker is not working either. I have sent emails to tech support with no response. It hasn't worked in over a week.

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                              • KeriMorgret
                                KeriMorgret @JasonPortlandSEO last edited by

                                Hi Sarah,

                                Mind sending me a PM with your info? Did you email help@seomoz.org, or a different email? If you emailed help, there should have been an automated response with a ticket number. If you give me that in a PM I'll track down what happened. We usually respond in a day or two.

                                Keri

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                                • KeriMorgret
                                  KeriMorgret last edited by

                                  Hi everyone,

                                  Just a quick note to let you know the keyword difficulty tool is working again. Thanks for your patience!

                                  Keri

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                                  • KeriMorgret
                                    KeriMorgret @JasonPortlandSEO last edited by

                                    Hi Sarah,

                                    You should have heard back from the help desk now. It looks like a response may have gone to your junk filter. Let me know if you haven't heard back yet.

                                    Keri

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                                    • comtedescierges
                                      comtedescierges @KeriMorgret last edited by

                                      Evidently not working again as out of 30 queries I have only had it working 3 times which is highly frustrating considering it is (potentially) one of the most useful tools on SEOMoz and really the only reason that I signed up for a Pro account. Any ideas when it will be working again?

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                                      • ChiarynMiranda
                                        ChiarynMiranda @comtedescierges last edited by

                                        Hey Sean,

                                        Thanks for writing in and sorry that you are running into some issues with the Keyword Difficulty tool. Unfortunately, Google has changed the way that they present rankings information, so we have had to make some changes to our collection in order to keep up with these changes, I'm afraid that this has caused some issues with providing the real time data for the Keyword Difficulty tool and the tool is currently unresponsive. At this time, unfortunately, we do not have an ETA for when that tool will be up and running again, but we are hopeful to have the issue resolved by the end of the week. I thank you for your patience while we work to resolve this issue.

                                        I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

                                        -Chiaryn

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