Overture keyword importance

[mgstudent]

Hi all,

Ok so I'm still learning. But I came across SEOCHAT.com's overture keyword tool, and I typed in the 2 words of the domain that I'm interested in.
It shows me a list of words/phrases and the number of searches this month.

I've a few questions:

1. The number of searches show, I guess this is just for Yahoo.com?
2. The 2 words that I typed into the keyword search weren't shown below in the results. Does this mean that no-one is searching my 2 words at yahoo.com?
3. How important is this keyword search in terms of making a decision to buy a domain name?
4. The 1st result that I was shown was a 2 word phrase (related to my 2 word search) and this showed '922' searches. Is this good?
5. The next phrase in the list had 150 searches. The 2 word phrase shown with 922 searchs is 2 words that I would never type into a search engine looking for results. Is this keyword tool accurate? Or could it be that most people don't search the same way that I treat keywords?
6. For example. Say I'm looking at NewYorkHotels.com (which I'm not, but let's take this as an example). After using the keyword tool, new york hotels is no where to be found, but the top listing is hotel new york with 922.
So would that make you think that the hotelnewyork.com is worth buying as the keyword tool puts it at the top?
Also all the other extensions are available... Just seems strange...

Ok if anyone can try to answer any of my questions I'd appreciate it.

I know it's a bit messy, but the keywords I'm looking at aren't NewYork Hotels, I just used that as an example.


Thanks for any help.

Mg

 

[fab]

Have you reviewed this http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=179273 thread?

1. Could be just for Yahoo, but in ant case, it is far from exact. Usually the US searches are quite lower, including all of the search engines, Google as well.
2. If you got results, that means they are searching for your term, but are searching for other words with it as well, e.g., if you search youtube, you should get "youtube video" and alot other as well.
3. Keyword search is quite important for making a decision, however, relying only on Overture is not, since it has it's flaws. That alone should not be the sole reason, but in certain cases may be a great one.
4. Good is relative. As I said before, 922, might be 22 actual searches as well. Getting a 2 word domain.com with an overture of 922, is generally quite good.
5. If it logically doesn't make sense, then yes, it may be flawed, as mentioned above, but you really never know what people are looking for. If you get similar results with other tools and methods, then it is probably acurate.
6. Yes, this is an example of an Overture flaw, it sometimes changes the order of the words around. You should click on that link and you should see the correct order. NewYorkHotels.Com is definitely a winner domain, with or without Overture, which it probably has strong in any case. For highly searched and valuable items like that or better, yes it is probably a good choice as well.
8. I would suggest doing a local search here at the forum. reading up as much as possible concerning Overtures significance and reliability, as well as other methods and tools.

Good luck, and welcome to the forum.

 

[mgstudent]

Thanks fab,

Some useful info, I'm checking the link now.