Keyword explorer and Scandinavia

[Anders_Alknes]

Hi, congrats on launching keyword explorer!

Is the data primarily focused on the US and other larger markets, I see that for the keywords I put in I'm not getting any volume data? When can we expect this to change?

Best regards,

Anders

[KristinaKeyser]

Hi there! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. Thanks so much - we really hope you're enjoying the tool!

In the Keyword Explorer search box, you have the option of choosing the country in the drop down box next to the search box. Here is a screenshot of the field I'm referring to: http://screencast.com/t/4hU9IurJVw

Does changing this field based on the country you're interested in help at all?

Thank you,
-Kristina

[Anders_Alknes]

Hi Kristina, thank you for your reply.

I of course selected Norway from the drop-down.

I guess I did a bad job at explaining the issue. Here I go:

I believe the problem lies in the algorithm, when I type in words I know are the most searched after in Norway I get 0-10 as a volume score. I therefore wonder if the algorithm is weighted correctly, since Norway only has 5 million people it's logical that we can't be using the same search volume scales as the US. But to me it seems that this is the case, and that you guys should improve on this so that I can get realistic volume results based on the search market size.

Does this clarify? I guess this could almost could be tagged as a feature request, but I know you guys are brilliant so I thought you would have thought of this already.

[randfish]

Hi Anders - totally not your fault; it's ours. We have volume data that's US-centric currently, and don't have data for Norway (or other countries) yet. We're working first on UK, Canada, and Australia, and then will try to get other countries' search volume data, too.

Apologies for that - in the meantime, my suggestion is to use AdWords KW Planner data for volume and select the specific country.