Hello all I wanted to see if yall could verify this for me. Im getting 1,220,000 searches a month with clothing bottoms. I am in the uk. Is this right? do you see it as well?

for "clothing bottoms", setting the country to uk and the match to exact, I get a global count of just 91 searches a month and no uk search volume via the google keyword tool:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

I have no idea how you are seeing 1.2m searches a month.

in terms of usage (rather than search volume), I get:

Results 1 - 10 of about 42,200 for "clothing bottoms".

but if you look at the results themselves, it's mainly mid sentence where the words happen to be next to each other than than used as a specific descriptive label.

Thanks for the thread & info in this thread. The difference between "broad" and "exact" on the google keyword tool can have extreme variances.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Originally Posted by safesys

I'm using a UK ip and get a different count using that than calling the exact same url using a us proxy.



I was just using "used car" to illustrate that google is performing some algorithmic functions with regards to terms that aren't in quotes. the extent of that algorithm could well extend beyond just breaking that term into space delimeted sections.

bottom line is google results can be strange - but to me, the most important thing has always been getting a feel for who is using a term and how rather than trying to come up with a magic-bullet formula based on just the count number (although a very low count is all the more telling given the algorithmic aspect).

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