Wordtracker vs Overture - Whats going on?

[UKZJ007]

This is strange as hell, one displays 230 then the other displays 1.5 - Who should I believe?

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/su...puter+services

[I, Brian]

Neither - they are for illustrative purposes only.

Personally, I would recommend looking not at the absolute values (ie, the individual numbers) - but instead at the relative values between different search terms.

[UKZJ007]

Yeah and in this case its a BIG difference lol.

[I, Brian]

I meant, for example if you had three search terms in Wordtracker OR Overture, and simply comparing how they rate against one another for frequency. There's no point at all in cross-referencing the absolute Wordtraker and Overture data, as they are from entirely different sources and applications.

[rcslimited]

so in answer to this question....who should we all MOST believe? I suppose comon sense would dictate you go with the lowest #. that way you can never be upset

[UKZJ007]

Yeah that kinda sucks, but I heard overture is messed up by some people, and also - 230 looked quite good lol.

[hurricane_sh]

I think overture was overly exaggerated.

[awall19]

overture has automated ranking checkers and bid checker bots and whatnot that scour their newtwork and inflate their #s.