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It seems to me from looking over a recent spreadsheet that the value previously populating exact match is now the broad match value

Hey anyone noticed Google's keyword tool seems to be returning weird data for search volume compared to just a few days ago?

"iron fist clothing" exact match was returning around 1,000 local monthly searches and a monthly trend of approximately the same over the past year.

As of yesterday it has zero searches for exact match and even the monthly trends have all been set to zero for every month going back a year

Now I suppose this could happen in theory but the fact that the trend is showing up as zero for each month over the last year makes me think this could be a bug.

I've also noticed this for one of my keywords on my SEO site, again suddenly gone to zero searches and monthly trends going back a year.

However a quick check on webmaster tools shows the impressions going back a few months at the average of 1,300 that the old trend suggested it should be.

Anyone else noticed this?

Well now you mention it I did do an email campaign but I assumed that any links from an email client wouldnt have much of an effect.

The reason I'm pretty sure there isnt any backlinks it due to the page only being about 2 weeks old and I havent actually built any.

It just seems weird a 2 week old page is the highest ranking page on the site.

Thats the strange thing page has zero back links.

Still not going to lose any sleep over it!

Thanks for the reply

Hey there,

Today my site received it's first Google pagerank and noticed something strange.

My domain got a PR of 2 whilst most of the other inner pages got PR1, so far so good.

But then one particular inner page which is just 2 weeks old and has zero backlinks has PR 3.

I'm not one to fixate on PR but this just struck me as weird.

What do you guys think?