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Google Webmaster Tools Now Has Keyword Significance

By Robert Campbell on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Print This Post
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Google’s Webmaster Tools Dashboard now comes complete with a keyword significance chart graphing your keywords. They rank the keywords found on your site by count, and in their words should “reflect the subject matter of your site”.

The list displays only one word keyword phrases, and appears to go as low as three characters. It noticed BWI on this site without a problem. I’m just wondering why usability isn’t over design for this site.

The unfortunate part about this new feature is the fact that when you download the list in CSV format, numeric values are not show along with the keywords. It’s just a list of words, but at least they are prioritized order.

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5 Comments on “Google Webmaster Tools Now Has Keyword Significance”

  1. freelancer says:

    would you suggest we use this info to improve the lower ranking keywords? since we really clueless as to the ranking of the first keyword relative to other sites.

    • Lower, or maybe words you didn’t expect. An example for this site was the word “post” showed up a lot. It was due to my site format. A few minor edits, and I just deleted over 2,000 cases of it.

  2. oes tsetnoc says:

    i have also seen this change. but confused that what i the benefit of this?

  3. Peter Veazey says:

    Clueless. I’m bit too confused also with this keyword significance.

  4. Michael says:

    I have used the keyword significance chart and have found to be informative but I agree, it serves little purpose unless Google allows you to download in CSV the numerical values associated with the keywords. Nonetheless, I found your post informative. Kudos Robert!

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