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The overture search tool and the UK version have been useful assets for the affiliate marketer for as long as I can remember, it shows search volumes of a previous month for individual keywords and websites, and what obviously makes it so valuable to affiliates is it lets us see what terms the consumers are typing into the search engines when looking for a product / service, and in what numbers. I know it doesn’t include google search results but you can times 5 -10 the overture results for google according to popular opinion.  

So what has happened to the overture search tool? it seems yahoo who now run it have reduced its functionality heavily in recent months, but in the last week I haven’t been able to load their pages 95% of the time and if they do load any search ends up in an error page, please don’t tell me this tool is now being made redundant, I will have too search hard to find a like for like replacement to this very useful service.

Also I found the overture search tool helps me when I’m searching the daily deleting domain lists, I only do this every other-day now as having over 1000 domains is very hard to manage and I don’t  really need any more at this point in time (unless a real gem is dropping) and I’m now dedicated to developing existing “good domains” to create new affiliate sites rather than just forwarding the domain names to pay per click sites.

Other alternative tools worth considering when researching keywords are wordtracker, google & MIVA