Keyword Explorer is Now Live; Ask Me Anything About It!

[SureFire]

Hi Rand

Love the new KE tool! Great job.

I'm in New Zealand and like others out of the States I also found myself puzzled by the keyword volume estimate, but makes sense now you've clarified these are currently US volumes.

Can you please confirm that, whilst we should ignore the keyword volume estimates for non-US markets, the difficulty and opportunity scores are still applicable outside the US?

Cheers, Mark

[randfish]

Hi Mark - yes! If you're using the New Zealand select in the drop down for engines, those other scores should be accurate.

Cheers!

[Krithikam]

how to see the organic keywords that a website uses?

[randfish]

Unfortuntately, we don't have this feature yet in KW Explorer, but you can get it at SEMRush, Spyfu, Keycompete, Searchmetrics, and others. We hope to have this ability in the future.

[bhsiao]

I love the keyword tool for giving me direction and helping to prioritize. My question:

Once I have the prioritized keywords, do you recommend having a page for each of the top keywords, using the keyword as the page name? Or is it better to sprinkle the keywords into existing pages?

Thank you.

[Page1SEO]

Hi Rand,

With uploading keyword lists, does each keyword on the list count towards your 300 queries/month list? Ex: If I upload a list with 100 keywords on it, will I then only have 200 queries left for the month? Or is it 300 independent queries, and 3 lists regardless of size?

Thanks!

[randfish]

Each keyword you add to a list does count toward the 300 limit (or whatever limit your account has). That's because for each, we need to do a SERP crawl to get the metrics and analysis.

If you upload a list with 100 keywords, we'll do a data fetch for each, and you'll have 200 queries remaining for the month.

[Sigma_Digital]

Really loving the new tool, I have created keyword groups but I would like to know the accuracy especially in the UK.

When setting up a campaign there are options to monitor Google GB & Google UK, would using one or the other, or even both give different results for keywords?

[randfish]

Hi - thanks! Glad to hear it. As far as accuracy in the UK - the SERP data is accurate, but volume is still US-centric until we make some updates. Those should be happening relatively soon (next few months).

As far as UK vs. GB, I believe the rankings can be slightly different.

[randfish]

Thanks! Check out https://moz.com/blog/can-seos-stop-worrying-keywords-focus-topics-whiteboard-friday for more info on exactly that topic. Basically, I'd suggest targeting all the keywords that target the same searcher intent together on a page, and split up any that have different intent/search goals to different pages.

[ATP]

Rand,

I am a UK user.

I just went onto the keyword difficulty page and it said it is being removed from June 2nd to be replaced by the keyword explorer tool. Whilst I welcome this change as I love the keyword explorer, as a UK user i rely on the keyword difficulty tool for volume metrics as they keyword explorer doesn't yet show these for the UK.

Why the haste to remove this tool? Its a vital part of the puzzle for me until the explorer is fully operational. Could it not stick around until the explorer is fully functional?

Thanks

[randfish]

Hi ATP - we're working on getting the UK volume data (along with other countries) into KW Explorer, hopefully before we shut off KW Difficulty. I believe we may be extending that June 2nd deadline.

In the meantime, I'd recommend using AdWords' KW Tool and selecting "United Kingdom" in their country dropdown. KW Difficulty's data comes from there as well (via GrepWords).

[ATP]

Back to the old fashioned way it is then

Thanks for the reply

[Augustus_Piazza]

Hi

I just signed up for my 30 day trial, but the Keyword Explorer tool is not working.  I keep getting this message "Creating keyword list failed."  Am I able to use this tool during the trial period?

Thanks,

Augustus

[randfish]

Hi Augustus - I think there might have been a problem with your free trial signup. It looks like your account (at least the one associated with this profile) isn't in a free trial state according to the subscription data I see. If you email help@moz.com, they should be able to assist.

[robocip]

Hi!

Why I found very different results for the same key using Moz Keyword Explorer and Google Keyword planner... why?

For example the italian key:

"Cameretta bambina"

I'm interested in Italy country.

thank you,

Marina

[randfish]

Hi Marina - Moz and Google have different data -- we don't use exactly the same data sources as Google, so you should expect to see some differences in suggested keywords and in volume (Google makes an estimate, while we use a ranged bucket).

[justxiaohan]

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[ChrisCK]

Hi Rand,

I want to report a bug with the Keyword Explorer regarding Search Locale.
My campaign search settings are set to:

Google - United States en-US (Default)
Google - United Kingdom en-UK

After entering a keyword search in Keyword Explorer I see the Overview with en-US metrics. When I click SERP Analysis with right-click "open a new tab" it incorrectly opens the SERP Analysis with the en-UK metric. I was confused to see why the metrics are different but finally figured out the bug. When I click SERP Analysis with left-click it opens the correct en-US page in the same window. While doing keyword research, I think it's quite natural to open multiple keywords on new tabs to research them one-by-one or to compare their data between the open tabs.

I'm using the latest Google Chrome Version 59.0.3071.86 on macOS Sierra 10.12.5.

Also, one other feature request would be to allow "open new tab in window" for the right-hand side magnifying icon in Keyword Lists.

Thanks,

Chris

PS: The line spacing in the WYSIWYG on the community forums is a bit weird.

[randfish]

Hi Chris - yes! We know about this bug with the different tabs/windows and have a ticket in to the dev team to address. Thanks for the heads up.