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    Google shutting down Adword External Keyword Tool

    Anyone else notice this yellow message in Aword keyword too ? Telling Adword External Keyword Tool will be closed in coming months and advising people to use Keyword Planner.

    What do you guys think of this keyword Planner ?

    I'm not used to it so still not happy with it but can't blame the tool for that. But from now on you will have to login to Adword account to search keywords.

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    The other day I used it but didn't noticed anything, today I checked and it is there (yellow message)

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    sry but can you share screenshot as even i also didnt marked same !!

    all i marked was enhanced campaign news that it will compulsory or anything

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    You see that message only if you are not logged into Adword. They are telling that people who use the keyword tool without having Adword account. Like asking them to register or forget about the free keyword research tool.adwords.JPG

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    Strange. I've seen google shutting down most of its products sooner or later. As soon as people get too used to something there is a notification about some other service to use.

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    Yep. Google had shut down their affiliate network and also shutting down Google Reader too. Maybe they are having money problems. :P

    But in this case they are not completely closing it. They have come up with a new system called Keyword planner.

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    Your friendly local CFO in action. Google made a name for themselves in their early days by giving back to the community. Since the IPO and the rise of the financial officer/department their primary concern is Return on Investment. All the people using the free services consume bandwidth and resources without direct ROI, so the CFO sees this as a bad thing. Unless somebody wakes up look for this to be a continuing trend.

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    So much for their Do no evil theory. haha. But I can't blame them. it's a company not a charity so they have to think about their share holders too. But giving all these free services they collect mass amount of data which can worth a fortune and probably big companies are looking for these.

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    I don't think Google is any where near shortage of money. As Winkor suggests, they are now looking for every option to rake in the money that is falling like leaves from trees. It is a reality for Google at least.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Greg View Post
    I don't think Google is any where near shortage of money. As Winkor suggests, they are now looking for every option to rake in the money that is falling like leaves from trees. It is a reality for Google at least.
    yes i completely agree with you .

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    Now when you click keyword tool it redirect you to new Keyword planner with link where you can go back to keyword tool if you want. I guess they will wrap it out in next month or so.

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    We can say not shut down, we can say adword external keyword tool replaced by keyword planner or upgraded it.


 

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