Quote Originally Posted by Ramesh K
Hi all,

Is it true that the keyword tool of Adwords only shows numbers that are favourable to Google only? Are the numbers useless or can it truly be used for success?

Thanks.
While the Google Adwords' keyword suggestion tool is the best free tool out there (bar none in my opinion), the numbers are WAY off.

Here's what I do... I use TraceWatch (semi open-source stat counting) to parse search queries... each search query has a count. Here's a snapshot from a client of mine:



See how TraceWatch shows you each search query along with counts?

That's the most accurate way to do it. Feed broad match keywords into Google Adwords, let it send some traffic to your landing page, and finally visit your TraceWatch account for EXACT stats.

John Saya has a nifty autoinstaller to put TraceWatch onto your site -- totally FREE... right here:
http://www.cgiconnection.com/tracewatch

TraceWatch is the best open source software I've ever used. The bad news is the developer no longer supports it (but that's okay because it's very stable).