Keyword Bible
I was going to buy Keyword Bible Pro, which is referred to as a “Complete, Customizable and Searchable Holy Grail of Keyword Research” but as it costs $350, I asked around first. Here is what a reliable source had to say about Keyword Bible Pro:
I’m pissed off. Why?
Well, I spent $500 for the Keyword Bible Pro and upgrades. I just got around to filtering the latest update yesterday.
I was so surprised by the results that I filtered it TWICE. Well, I filtered it once removing odd punctuation and what not as well as against the bad words list that Glenn had and what I found was very interesting… look at this:
First, I combined all the files into one huge file. It was 500MB in size with 19.5 million lines - yay - that’s a ton of keywords you think!
So off I go filtering…when it’s filtered with punctuation and bad words removed it’s 52MB in size and only 2.2 million keywords?
Must be some “bad” bad words in there…so I filter it again without using the bad words list. This time I get a file that’s 60MB in size with 2.5 million keywords.
The end result of all of this is that this “upgrade” (ed: Keyword Bible Pro) has a grand total of around 2.5 million usable keywords in it. What a ripoff!
I wonder what Scott has to say about this …
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4 Comments
December 7th, 2005 at 7:13 am
After filtering my list very extensively, I ended up with about 9MM keywords. Did he remove every line with puncutation instead of removing the punctuation from the line?
Vic
December 7th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
Vic can you give me more details on how you filtered? I’ll get more details from my source and I’ll compare to see what’s wrong.
December 8th, 2005 at 10:20 am
I used my own list of “bad” keywords and I used Keyword Evolution to strip out bad characters, redundant spaces, etc.
January 19th, 2008 at 4:46 am
The Keyword Bible is a piece of garbage. A tall pile of smelly poop. A joke. “It can add quotes and brackets”. Whoopee. “You can import lists”. Wow.