Google offers an AdWords keyword planning tool at adwords.google.com (look under the Tools section.) That's what comes to mind when I hear "straight from Google." On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote: > > > > > There's a guy who's trying to woo me as an SEO client for my newest sites. > He generated results for a list of keyphrases ranging from 10 to 110 > searches per month, world wide. I said with those kinds of numbers, I could > not justify spending *anything* on SEO, since the percentage clicking > through and then the percentage who converted to clients would be > infinitesimal. He asked me for some more search terms. Conveniently, all > the new phrases ranged from 956 to 5600 searches per month. He says the > info came straight from Google but I'm suspicious. It doesn't make a lot of > sense to me that "social change companies" gets only 20 searches per month, > while the even more long-tail "social change profitability consulting" gets > 2221 searches and "successful social entrepreneurs" gets 4020. > > Is there a no-cost tool I can use to verify some of this data? > > Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm) > ________________________________________________ > Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, > "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" > *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 > <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* > > Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, > poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change > > Twitter: @shelhorowitz > > * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified > * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame > > http://goingbeyondsustainability.com > http://transformpreneur.com > mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 > Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest: > Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad > Levinson) > > _________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20160508/9d5430ca/attachment.html