Are the Volume numbers from the Keyword Difficulty Tool identical to Google Adwords Keyword Tool?

[KevinBloom]

I use the Keyword Difficulty Tool daily. Because of the troubles with Google's API I can no longer see the search volumes. I still want to use the tool for difficulty numbers because I think this is a much better number than the Google Adwords Competitive bar.

If I use the Adwords keyword tool for volume numbers, will that be sufficient?  Is this the same as what Moz usually provides? If no, where is the best place to gather volume numbers?

Thanks!

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hello Sylvia,

I think, a part of, the answer to your question is in the FAQ of the Keyword Difficulty Tool, the search volume data for keywords is collected from the Keyword Tool via the Google AdWords API ( ). So the data within the Keyword Difficulty Tool should be the same as in the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. We tested this a couple of months ago and from my own experience I can say that it is matching, but hopefully there is somebody around from the SEOmoz team to confirm your question.

Happy analyzing!