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not at the moment. or rather, not that I know of. This problem with the google keywords tool API is affecting many other companies using this API - like Raven Tools.

I haven't come across anything that states when it will be resolved. quite painful for us who rely on it.

there is a problem with the google keywords API, and so seomoz is unable to connect with them at the moment. that is why ranking reports may be on hold now. crawl reports should still continue though.

While it is true that English and Mandarin is used, English is predominantly used on the internet back here. The site also targets readers of a certain proficiency in English, and of a certain intellect.

I already did some keyword targeting, but I predict much of the traffic with come from referrals and social media. Overtime, if things go well, search traffic will increase from branded searches.

I think you have to give the search engines time to register the changes that you made to your site. Check out the crawl rate of your site to make sure that Google is properly indexing your site. If the website is very recently launched, the age of the domain might be the factor for it getting ranked against the other competitors who are targeting similar keywords.

Did you already use the Keyword Analysis tool in the SeoMoz Tools section? It is a good way to see how competitive your keywords are and what more you need to improve in order to rank. Run a Full Analysis for your keywords to get more information.

Hope this helps

I am helping a client do On-page optimization and link building. His website is rather like thoughtcatalog.com, where it is a collection of random articles, opinions and anecdotes with no fixed genre. He also has a section devoted to artsy pictures of women. To make things worse, I am in a country (singapore) where the population is small, and the search traffic for his kind of content is minuscule.

I have trouble finding out good keywords for him to target and I am considering not undergoing any serious keyword targeting at all (because it will detract from the style of his content). I did a little competitor research, and most of the websites in such a genre do not seem to do any keyword targeting at all!

In such a case, how do i continue to help him with SEO? should I abandon keyword research? What should i do to help him earn traffic?