Keyword Planner has gone totally bad

[mikep]

In my early days of marketing I used keyword planner extensively. They were free to us, gave detailed information about any kw entered, gave kw ideas and much more. Over the time I started using paid tools such as wordstream as because paid tools its is easier to send and file reports.

I haven't used the kw planner in the recent years. Now a couple of days earlier I tried to use it. I am just speechless how bad it has gotten now. I mean you can't even do a proper search without google asking you to search a campaign. And the searches they are the worse ones. The thing I noticed that if you don't start a campaign then  it will probably show you wrong the results of kw's entered.

[anush]

Actually its been quite some time now.

We have switched from it a while back. Yeah, its disappointing but can you blame google??

They are just trying to make money for them, their employees and share holders.

[batman]

Its just an earning tool for Google now.

[steveposter]

Google will require a campaign before you can use keyword planner but from the good old days you can directly access GKP with your all in one account in Google.

[sanjana.mishra]

Earlier it was easy to use keyword planner but now everything has changed. Google just want to earn money now.

[websiteee]

You can use 'keyword everywhere' tool for keyword research.

[ellawilson866]

You can also use the Google trend to find out the Keywords.

[mikep]

@ellawilson866 Although it's a very old thread by me. But I will reply to you..

Trend is the worst of all.

[umairseoexpert12]

I think one of the best tools for keyword research is Ahref keyword explorer.

[viking91]

I think one of the best tools for keyword research is Ahref keyword explorer.

Wordstream is the best. Ahref can be messy for newbies.