Online Gold Finder?

Online Gold Finder presents itself as a “reverse database” able to do 2 unique things: Uncover potential niche markets, and exploit words that trigger higher pay per click revenues.

For example, if I’m trying to find a niche, I could search for keywords with monthly searches between 1000 to 50000 whose average cost per click is between 5 cents and 10 cents per click.

It produces a table of results showing the

keyword, number of searches per month, number of search results, average cost per click and the relative niche value of the keyword based on the number of search results.

The fewer the search results, the higher the number of searches, the higher the niche value.

Did you know that the keyword “anxiety lepidopterophobia” (fear of butterflies and moths) receives 62538 searches but only has 1280 search results?

There are questions I have though. I can’t figure out their “results” column. In the above case, Google shows 104 results for “anxiety lepidopterophobia” (306 without the quote marks), not 1280.

Overture’s inventory tool shows only 107 queries… not 62538 which supposedly reflects Google’s data.

Mystery upon mystery. I’ll see what more I can dig up. I’m awaiting a response from the company.

Here’s part of the response: The database is new and has bugs. The amount of info has grown to 575,000 search terms in the last month… a doubling in size and the growth of the database continues.

They have just issued a new version and are working on these issues.

Bottom line: check the results yourself to see if they’re approximated by overture’s inventory tool and by searhcing for the optimized form of the keyword (”keyword your checking”) in Google.

I started playing with the most recent download and can’t verify one promising niche.

Of course, Google’s traffic could be exponentially higher than the Overture Inventory tool’s measures, but the results in Google are easily uncovered by searching Google.

I’ll keep trying it a while because of the great promise it contains, but it’s been mostly disappointing to this stage.