It is official Yahoo is officially and finally discontinuing it’s Overture keyword suggestion tool. Sad but true! So bye, bye, adieu, farwell. My favorite multilingual SEO 1.0 tool gone forever! Now all roads lead to http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/
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Kristjan Mar Hauksson is the founder and director of search and online communications at Nordic eMarketing. The company specializes in multilingual online communications, organic search engine optimization, and marketing through several verticals such as tourism, finance, government, and pharmaceuticals. It helps companies gain international visibility online and to use the Internet as a communication channel; it also provides consultation in web content management systems and analytics solutions. Hauksson is on the board of directors of SEMPO, on the Advisory board for Bing Advertising and founded the Iceland SEO/SEM forum. He has been involved in developing Internet solutions since 1996, and involved in search engine optimization and marketing since 1997. He is a publish author on the topic of Internet Marketing and among other co-authored the acclaimed Global Search Engine Marketing.
Overture stopped working well while ago. There are other tools you can still use for multilingual SEO.
I don’t think we are missing much at this point. Plus, as you well know Overture data was inflated by scrapers and bots that were hitting them 24/7.
You are quite right and thanks for the link, looks like a good collection of multilingual keyword research tools.
For the Nordics you might want to contact the likes of Kvasir and Leit directly to get the keywords you are looking for. Mikkels Keywordmaker is propably also fine, I have ordered data test data from him twice and never got it.
Thanks for the tip about Kvasir & Leit. I haven’t done any project in Nordic Languages yet, so I’ll be interested to see how that goes with their information in the future.
I heard before that you can contact them directly and they will provide a keyword list with no hesitation. Have you had any experience with them? If so, we’re talking about a simple hit and ask? or a more bureaucratic process?
Sorry to hear about your experience with Keywordmaker. A friend of mine suggested its inclusion in the list, but I might have to reconsider if there is solid evidence of not really delivering results.
Regards,
Kvasir has done great for us, so I recommend them
That’s very sad. I remember this easy tool, which could help us in the online marketing field every time. Sad, but true. However there are still several tools that work. Thanks for sharing that information, haven’t heard about it, before this moment.