By Anthony Raymond, KeywordResearcher.org

As many of you know, I am far from being an apt Internet Marketer. My forte is actually software design. So, while this post won’t make

you rich, you may get a little bit of knowledge about how to utilize some of the latest and greatest keyword tools to hit the market.

What is “Google Autocomplete?”

Go ahead and follow this link for Google’s official description of their Autocomplete function. But, you’re probably already quite familiar with it. You notice its output as you casually type letters into the Google search box. While you do so, a fairly complicated process is working behind the scenes. For each letter you type, requests are being exchanged between your desktop and a Google server. The incoming packet of information contains an array of keywords which reflect Google’s attempt to “guess” what search phrase you are about to type next.

So why is “Autocomplete” useful to us?

The data returned via Google Autocomplete is extremely useful for several reasons.

• First, the returned keywords are often narrowly descriptive of the exact expression that you are currently typing. Meaning you are able to get a flurry of related keywords that are all highly congruous with your seed keyword phrase. Hence, achieving a resultant keyword set that is exceptionally focused. Yielding such an “on-target” result via other means (like the free Google Keyword Tool) is often problematic and privy to “word noise.”
• Second, the Google Autocomplete database is much bigger than the Google Keyword Tool database. Hence, allowing for the harvesting of a more expansive keyword set.
• Third, the algorithm by which the Autocomplete tool attempts to determine which keywords you seek, is quite different than the one employed by the Google Keyword Tool. The Keyword Tool is great. But the method by which it renders suggestions is often much more strident than that of Google Autocomplete. This is perhaps because the GKT was not really invented for organic search marketers, but rather for PPC marketers. So one’s attempt to garner Long Tail keywords via the old tool is often a bit tricky.
• Fourth, when we use Autocomplete, we are able to take advantage of Google’s sophisticated indexing technology–and harvest thousands of keywords in seconds. If you were to perform a similar process on a keyword set that resided on your own hard drive, for example, the same task would take a much longer amount of time. Used properly, the Autocomplete method is faster than virtually any keyword acquisition method out there.

What is “Autocomplete Scraping?”

In light of the above-mentioned reasons, it is in our interest to familiarize ourselves with the methods by which we may extract as many keywords out of Autocomplete as possible.

And that is where an Autocomplete Scraper comes in.

A “scraper” is simply a program that pretends it’s a person — typing keywords into the Google search box in a rapid fashion. And, saving the resultant keyword phrases in a text file or database.

When this process is done right, it becomes possible for the user to harvest thousands of rich keyword phrases in minutes.

There are hundreds of Autocomplete scrapers out there.

Simply surf on over to Soovle.com and type the keyword “dog training” to get an idea of how many scrapers there are in the world.

Many programs and websites feature similar functions. And, if this were your typical IM blog, then I might just list a few of them here, and head out for lunch.

But this is The Keyword Academy, so chances are; you’re looking for a post with a bit more depth to it.

And that is where the now infamous “Wild Card Scraping” technique comes in.

What is “Wild Card Scraping?”

As far as I know, there are only two software applications in the world that do “Wild Card Scraping.”

• My own software – at Keyword Researcher.org
• And, TKA’s Niche Refinery – at Niche Refinery.com

So, if you’re looking for this sort of Autocomplete scraping, you’ve come to the right place.

To understand what Wild Card Scraping is, you might want to start off by watching the first half of my YouTube video here.

But if you’d like to try it yourself, go to Google and type in a “question” phrase like:

Is X safe for children?

Then, delete the X and start typing various letters like A, B, C, etc. You’ll notice that Google’s drop-down box is populated with various “suggestions” as you type. This is important. Because there is gold in this little white box.

Google’s suggestions are reflective of the keyword phrase that you just typed in.

Everyone knows that.

But the important part is this:

The suggestions are also reflective of the “wild card” letter. (i.e. the text at the position around which the keyword phrase is currently “pivoting.”)

This is the novel little insight that makes Wild Card Scraping so valuable. Specifically, it allows you to ask Google to “fill in the blank” of any partial keyword phrase that you request.

Notice, in the above example, we can use our Wild Card (our asterisk *), and craft the following expression:

Is * safe for children?

Then, after a mere 10 seconds of scraping, we get a list like this:

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