Looks like Google made a change on how they display the average monthly searches per keyword in their Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Instead of giving you the exact average number of monthly searches they now give you a range. If you want more detailed information you actually have to set up a campaign:

It seems like unless you paying Google you will get less and less information from them moving forward.

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a marketing tool used in order to increase the use of non-paid search engine results. SEO has become increasingly popular within recent years as the internet has become the main source for finding information and services. There are several different ways to go about using SEO to improve a website’s ranking such as using keywords or phrases that search engines can easily identify which will ultimately drive traffic to a site. Today, most web traffic comes from popular search engines like Yahoo! and Google rather then through other online techniques like social media. Therefore, if a website is successful in using SEO to their advantage, large search engines are more likely to direct a targeted group of users to a site that is providing the service that they are in an exact search for. This brings more business to a website in general, whether they are offering a product, service, or some information to internet users by giving a website more publicity and exposure to a targeted group of consumers while also increasing a websites ranking in a search engine.

After creating a new site or a new page on our website we always went to make sure our website or web page gets discovered by search engines. In order for search engines to discover your website or a new website page we have to make sure your website or a page gets indexed. There are many ways that you can get your website indexed, for example, you can submit sitemaps, you can do it through link building, you can use one of those “submit your website to 1000’s of search engines” services (that don’t really work by the way) and many other methods. However, most of those methods will take a minimum 2-3 days to get your site indexed. So, how can you index the website within few minutes? The answer is simple. You can use Google Webmaster Tools to achieve it.

So you trying to rank locally on Google in top3? You can forget about it.
One big trend we noticed after all this Google Updates that started an year ago, including recent Penguin 2.1 is that a lot of local results are now a complete garbage. If you looking to find anything local, you might as well skip Google and go straight to YELP or Yellowpages, because that’s what you’ll see anyways if you search for any local service on Google.
It actually looks like YELP and Yellowpages just bought top spots, so no matter what local keyword you type in you’ll see YELP or Yellowpages in top3 spots.

Matt Cutts confirmed today that they will be rolling out Google Penguin 2.0 (New Generation of Penguin) in a few weeks, so make sure to double check your website for over optimization, social presence, anchor text diversity and content quality.