Keyword tool: SEOMOZ spacific month ? vs adword tool 12 month average but same data ???

[n-media]

Running a keyword analysis in SEOMOZ it shows my the folowing information "Local Search Volume (Dec)". I compared the data for the specific country , language and keyword with the adwords keyword tool and it exactly showed me the same numbers.

The adwords keyword tool shows:

"Local Monthly Searches: This column shows the approximate 12-month average number of search terms matching each keyword" http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=25148

So if the numbers are the same in google keword tool and  SEOMOZ why is SEOMOZ saying  that for a specif month?

If the data is the same one of both can not be right or probaly I didn't get the point.

See screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/GyaaW7EkwV

Thanks for help

[kenneth_martin]

This search volume data would have been last updated in December and not for just that specific month. It is clear that we need to provide better information on what this means though. Thanks for bring this to our attention and I'll see what we can do to add one of those little informational hover boxes to this so that there isn't any future confusion.

Have a great day!

Kenny

[RobertFisher]

The keyword difficulty/analysis tool uses the Google Adwords API so the results are the same.

The reason that SEOmoz has a month in there is that Rand wants it to appear he is smarter than Google... (NO Just Kidding).

I think for the answer as to why it shows a month we will need the assistance of an associate, etc.