Google is doing something weird… not sure if it is an early implementation of some of the Google Caffeine stuff, but…

…earlier today I was cleaning up a ton of keywords that I had done research for last month before sending them off to a couple of my writers. While going through my research I noticed some interesting discrepancies in the Google results. Let me explain.

For instance, in July, the phrase:

‘how to tone your stomach’ – had a traffic volume of 3600 searches (phrase match); All In Title search result of 171; and a phrase match result of 6230.

Today, the results were somewhat different, with a traffic volume of 2900 (which is fine); all in title results of 105,000 (yikes); and a phrase match result of 2,050,000 (double yikes).

What the heck?

I was thinking maybe I did something wrong. So, I went on to another keyword phrase:

‘how to loose stomach fat’ – In July this keyword had a traffic volume of 3600 (again in phrase match); all in title results of 325; and a phrase match search result of 6630.

Today I found this: traffic volume of 2900 (everything is fine); all in title of 328 (still good); phrase match result of 1,630,000 (huh?).

And this wasn’t an isolated instance, it happened to quite a few keywords…

By the way if you don’t know what all this means, don’t worry, just have a look at my keyword research videos here:

Super Simple Blogging – Keyword Research Tutorial

So now I’m wondering if it’s just something wrong in my end of the world or if everybody is starting to see similar results? If so, I think the way we do keyword research will have to change… and start looking at other factors besides phrase match volume and all in title results.

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