Clarification of Answer by
adiloren-ga
on
17 May 2002 04:35 PDT
I apologize for my original answer. I misinterpreted what you were
looking for. I have done A TON of research on this subject and it has
been rather frutrating. Unfortunately, there is not a service of
wordtracker's caliber available for Spanish keyword generation. The
market just isn't there right now, with Spanish speakers making up
only 5.4% of the online population.
(http://www.glreach.com/globstats/). However, there are some options.
Overture.com's keyword suggestion engine does generate Spanish
keywords that are tracked from many websites. I did some research on
Overture and found that they do have partnerships with many Spanish
search engines. These include the top 4 spanish language sites-
namely- Terra.es, Yahoo.es, Altavista.es and Lycos.es. Thus, the
results from Overture should reflect search term frequency on these
Spanish speaking sites. I entered some Spanish keywords and found the
results to be pretty strong. There are some problems with the site
though. Mainly, it won't provide you with synonyms, etc. The key to
searching on Overture is to use a very basic keyword and it will give
you more results, including more advanced search terms.
You are not alone in your search for a "Spanish Wordtracker", I saw
people on many message boards looking for the same thing. The advice
that they most often received was to use Wordtracker (or a similar
English keyword generator) and then translate the search terms to
Spanish. Many people claim that this works great and is very accurate,
as long as the translator is fluent. They warned against using
electronic "web translators". But, since you are fluent in Spanish,
this may be the best way to go.
Another service, Buscamundo.com, provides business information and
other valuable search info on Spanish websites. You can enter Spanish
keywords and it will produce related search terms and web sites as
well as statistical information.
I have provided links to these sites and some excepts from message
boards regarding your question below.
Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Buscamundo.com
http://buscamundo.com/
Title of thread: Translating keywords into other languages- is it
possible?
"We are a SEO firm based in Montreal, Canada so we have to deal on a
daily bases with both French and English language. I can tell you that
there are no known translation tools able to compete with good old
multi language HUMAN translator. Especially when you are looking for
very specific KW."
PAG
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum8/86.htm?highlight=keyword+spanish
"rencke: "Translating is definitely the way to go, and competition for
prime keywords much much lighter in non-English languages. Example: My
top keyword in English generates 1.260.000 hits in Google with
language preference set to English, but the same keyword in spanish
only generates 71.600 hits."
in English we are struggling to get into the top ten on Google for our
most competitive single keyword...in spanish we have had no problem
going straight to number one and never having dropped out of the top
three on any SE
go multilingual, it's mad not to."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum18/387.htm?highlight=keyword+spanish
Additional links that may be useful
Another Webmaster forum on translating keywords
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum18/265.htm
Azteca Online
http://www.aztecaonline.net/metatags.html
DesarroloWeb
http://www.desarrolloweb.com/promocion/etiquetasmeta/
Again, I'm sorry I wasn't able to find exactly what you were looking
for. At least you will know that the web was searched dry for the
service. Hopefully, the above information will help.
Good luck!
-Anthony
