Yahoo! provides a new tool to search keywords for SEO: Yahoo Clues. The peculiarity of Yahoo! Clues is that it is a tool that provides information not only on the number of searches but also on Internet users who type queries in “trending topics”, ie the most popular phrases of the moment.

Indeed, this new tool know the typical profile of the user that captures the query you want to analyze: sex, age, location, income etc.. In addition, Yahoo Clues displays the results in computer graphics to facilitate understanding of data.

Moreover, the tool suggests a list of other expressions which may be interesting trends. It is also possible compare two expressions.

What is interesting about this tool from a marketing standpoint is that we can know what our target seeking. Indeed, simply click on the profile we are interested to know the terms they sought. On this screen-shot you can see that among men and women under 24 years, the term is most wanted “pizza menu”.

Regrettably, the tool is currently only available to the United States and allows only for analyze the expression patterns this makes it virtually obsolete for most SEOs French.

Hopefully, however, that a French version is readily available to analyze all expressions. We close with this video presentation Yahoo! Clues: