Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool A Pain In the Rear

Posted by Josh on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006.

What other explanation can there be? For at least the past month, Overture’s keyword suggestion tool has not shown any results for keywords that include “analysis”. According to the tool, there are not enough searches on business analysis, keyword analysis, data analysis, etc. to register. This is obviously wrong. Note that it does work for analyze and analytics.

I have tried several times to use Yahoo Search Marketing’s online customer support to find out why, but they couldn’t (wouldn’t?) understand what I was talking about. Fortunately I found a very helpful woman on the other end of the phone during a recent call to Yahoo Sponsored Search’s support center. She checked with the appropriate technical team and called me back with an answer. Evidently, the word analysis is too similar to a word consisting of only the first four letters that is usually associated with sites of “lesser repute”. No joke.

So remember, if you’re looking for keywords statistics related to analysis, you’ll find the Overture tool to be a “pain in the rear.”