Google update going to cause problems for me and maybe you!
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Hi,
I got a warning come up today in my Adwords account about exact and phrase match being updated to include misspellings etc
Read more here: https://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=2537522
Now I use the Google keyword tool to research into exact match terms for SEO, gives me an idea of the search volumes I could potentially receive.
If Google adds misspellings, singular and plural forms, acronyms, stemmings etc this will change the data in the Keyword tool not giving accurate figures on the EXACT term.
Any thoughts?
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I don't know if you should be worrying much about the change in accuracy of the Google KWTool, in my opinion/experience that tool was not very accurate anyways.
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