Why does the Keyword Difficulty Tool shows no Search Volume?

[bernardovailati]

I've run a full report in many keywords on the Keyword Difficulty Tool, but in the Search Volume field all of them have the message "not enough data". Screenshot attached.

Why is that? I have keywords like "magnesium" that popular and have quite some traffic.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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[Brian-H]

I've been thinking too. Would be nice to have an answer....I thought it was because I had not linked my google adwords account to seomoz so it couldn't accurately query it via that however I can't find anywhere to add it.

[riyas_]

Hi Bernard

Don't worry. I guess since August 2012 Moz has some access issues to Google Adwords API. Hope the team is building a better replacement for this.

Read this for more info http://www.seomoz.org/q/loss-of-google-adwords-api 

[bernardovailati]

I see, thanks for the clarification!

It doesn't look like it will be fixed so soon so what's the best place to see the potential traffic of a keyword? Going directly to Google Adwords?

[riyas_]

Yep! https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool

[Brian-H]

It's an internet marketers tool but market samurai does a pretty good job.

[bernardovailati]

Yes, I use market samurai, but it wasn't working right this week. Just a few minutes ago I entered there and it was working again.

[Peterli]

Hi Everyone!

Thank you for bringing this up, this is definitely a great question indeed  Bernard was correct that our API access has been revoked by Google late last year in 2012.  While our talks are always continuous with Google about obtaining that volume data back, our difficulties calculations and SERP collection is done independent of the API volume data  In the mean time you can stil obtain your volume data directly from Google Adwords API, since they have an agreement with you!

Hope that helps!

Best,

Peter
SEOmoz Help Team.

[tylerwp]

I did the same thing. They should have a note on the page so were not wasting our time digging around trying to get it to work.

[Fries]

Hi everyone,

Local and global volume data still don't  seem available for me... Is this still due to the situation described here?

Does this mean that for each keyword one would have to enter it in the Google adwords keyword tool?

Thanks for your much needed help on this matter

Greetings,

Fries