Suggestions for RU Keyword Research

[theLotter]

Does anyone have suggestions for a better RU keyword tool than Yandex and/or is there a way to see exact searches in Yandex's keyword tool?

It seems like the data is not at all accurate.  For example - we are ranked #2 for a keyword which has over 40,000 monthly searches (searches according to Yandex keyword tool and position confirmed with someone doing a manual search in Russia).

However, we are not getting any traffic for this keyword and according to Yandex webmaster tools the keyword only got 10 impressions this past month.

Any ideas for me... or would using Google be preferable eventhough people in Russia don't really use Google?

[smokin_ace]

Hi Sara,

I can't really agree with you that people in Russia don't use Google. I've been living there for the past 20 years and I can assure you that Google.ru is very popular there.

Currently for the keywords research I know only four best and quite accurate tools:

1. Google Keywords Research

2. Google Insights - Helps to find trendy keywords

3) SeoQuake

4. Wordtracker

Also if you speak Russian language you might find this post very interesting for you, it has 42 tools for keyword research.

Hope it helps,

Russel

[theLotter]

Thanks. All the Russian employees at my company have asserted Google is barely used but it certainly makes my life easier if they are wrong!