I'm officially starting to hate Google's keyword tool!!!
Submitted by htxb on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 20:58.
After Friday's BIP session, I was all fired up ready to start doing some work. Keyword research seemed to be the best place to start, so I hopped on Google's keyword search tool and started searching. After a few minutes I had some really good momentum going! New keyword ideas were surfacing that I hadn't even thought of yet!
I had to step away from the computer for a few minutes. When I got back, I decided to try and export the keywords I had so far to a .csv file. I click the link and Google says my session had expired and I needed to re-login. I did so, and all my keywords were gone! GRRR!!!
So now, I'm working on keywords again. I start to get a good list built up (not as good as Friday's but that's okay). Remembering what happened on Friday I decided to export the keywords to a .csv file before I get too far. I click the link and I get a message that says something along the lines of "It appears your request has been made from a bot. Sorry for any inconvenience. Please try again." And once again, all my keywords were gone!!
Questions - Has anyone else had these same issues, or am I just a Google Keyword Tool idiot? Also, are there any suggestions some of you seasoned Google Keyword Tool veterans can make?
Thanks,
Carl
Just copy and paste the kws to notepad and do some clean up, if you don't want to redo the whole exercise. I have experienced this many times. To avoid this keep downloading your key words in batches than waiting till you have a gigantic kw list built.
That's what I was hoping to achieve today when I tried exporting to .csv but google thought I was a bot or something and wouldn't let me.
-Carl
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Hi Carl
I noticed you did say u logged in. Just wondering if you are logging into your AdWords acct. Then using the free kw tool, or just using the tool and no acct login.
I have been timed out if I get side tracked(#*@#), but never had that "bot" nonsense come up when accessing the tool after log-in in to my AdWords acct.
What is Google saying, if that is the case? That bots can access your personal AdWords info?
Barry
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