Overture bid tool as of last night Gone? (this time for good?)

[DNWizardX9]

Gone
The requested resource
/d/search/tools/bidtool/
is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.
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Apache/1.3.34 Server at astatine Port 8070

 

[Digital Address]

Works fine.

 

[CashCowDomains]

Not for us!

 

[Beachie]

It's officially gone. Yahoo have presumably figured that with Panama it's no longer relevant.

 

[Warren.Davis]

All good here.

Maybe your IP got banned?

 

[Ian]

Regged several domains after scanning with it. Looks good here!

 

[Beaker]

Same problem here. I think it's gone.

Anyone have good replacement suggestions for searching keyword bid/traffic values? I've been looking around and haven't found any satisfactory substitute yet. Happy to pay for a good service.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

 

[Warren.Davis]

It isn't gone. It still works fine for me. The problem is they will ban your IP for bulk queries.

If you only need to scan a few dozen domains/keywords you can use this tool:

http://www.seoonline.info/overture_keyword.php

If you need to scan larger quantities buy DRT (search here) or Bulk Overture from Search Totals:

http://www.searchtotals.com/

I own both and they work fine for bulk scans. Both use proxy servers so you won't get banned.

 

[droplister]

Its worked for me this entire time, either they blocked certain traffic, or people just chose to believe it is gone because its fast as ever for me.

 

[Beaker]

Strange, it's blocked for me. Maybe I'll try from another location/machine instead.

Thanks for the links to the keyword tools Warren!

 

[Beachie]

You guys are confused. We're not talking about the Overture Keyword Selector Tool - that's working fine. We're talking about the Overture Bidtool.

 

[droplister]

gotcha, well google's is still kicking.

 

[Steen]

gotcha, well google's is still kicking.

Google publishes bid prices?

 

[droplister]

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

i toss in $5 bid, and see what the estimates are to be in top 1-3

domain names average cpc $6.48 estimated position 1 - 3

 

[DNWizardX9]

yes the bid tool is gone

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

yes the bid tool is gone

there is no alternative?