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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 …

Posted on Tuesday, December 6th, 2005 at 4:50 pm under Rants. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

4 Comments

Vic Says:

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

blackhat-seo Says:

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.

Vic Says:

I used my own list of “bad” keywords and I used Keyword Evolution to strip out bad characters, redundant spaces, etc.

Logan Says:

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.

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