Webmasters always seem to be on the lookout for alternative Keyword Research Tools. So I figured this might be a good time to point out some of the popular free and paid Keyword Tools. My suggestion is this: Use the Keyword Tools on Websites you trust enough with the keywords. Independent websites may log the keywords you enter. I recommend you use the Google AdWords Keyword Tool for most of your keyword needs and use other Websites to help branch out on keyword ideas based on master keyword combos, always keeping your good keywords safe and secure.

 

Some Link Love:
Small Niche Keyword Research Modifiers
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Using AdWords for Keyword Research
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Five Steps to Effective Keyword Research
“There’s no getting around it. Keyword research is a vitally important aspect of your search engine optimization campaign. If your site is targeting the wrong keywords, the search engines and your customers may never find you…..”

 

Keyword Research Websites:
Google Adwords Keyword Tool: Use Google to generate potential keywords or site-related keywords or key phrases.

SEO Digger: My new favorite tool for research. Create your free account to open up the tools full potential, and it’s the nice thing to do. Enter your Websites URL, and hit search. SEO Digger will return your keywords, ranking for that keyword, wordtrack value and overture rank for the word.

Wordze Smart Keyword Research: I personally use this tool on all keyword research projects. View Daily, Weekly, and Monthly search & keyword trends, deep research keywords & phrases, produce project reports for repeat viewing or clients, watch keyword search volumes and much more! Mix this tool with Google Adwords and you will quickly gain an advantage of your competitors.

New Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool Location: Create an account and complete the 6 step process and starting using the new Suggestion Tool.

Wordtracker Free Keyword Suggestions: Scooped By SEObook.com - Enter a starting keyword to generate up to 100 related keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume.

iWebTools Keyword Suggestion: This tool will display up to 10 popular keywords matching your initial keyword.

SEO Book’s Search Tool: A great tool to cross reference keywords and phrases. Find out which SE’s have the highest search volumes, wordtracker and kw discovery rankings, and more.

123Promotion WordTracker Tool: View statistics for average searches per hour, day, week, projected figures for the next 12 months.

SEO Chat Google Keyword Tool: The Keyword Suggestion tool for Google will help you choose relevant and popular terms related to your selected key term.

Spyfu Competitive Research: Research what your competitors are doing across the range of sites or keywords that you watch.

Keyword Discovery Free Term Search Suggestion Tool: The Search Engine Watch Blog must be thanked for posting this amazing free keyword suggestion tool, it kicks ass! “Type in a seed keyword and the free tool generates the top 100 keywords from data complied and collected from more than 180 search engines worldwide.” And for all the chart junkies, a simple pie chart breaks down the keyword market share for each search engine. Since this tool is free, be sure to check out the other featured seo tools provided by Keyword Discovery.

Digital Point Suggestion Tool: Use this tool to display the results of a query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched the most often.

 

Post Modified: June 25, 2007

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