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List of the Best Keyword Research Tools

Doug Williams @ 7:33 am

This blog entry was posted on March 7, 2010.

There are a number of good keyword research tools. Some are free and for some you will need to pay a subscription fee.

  1. Wordtracker offers both paid and free versions of their keyword research tools. They also offer WordTracker offers a free cool plug-in for FireFox called SEO Blogger (see chapter 8). The paid version of Wordtracker has a powerful Thesaurus for uncovering “hidden gems” and it is easy to use.
  2. Keyword Discovery offers both paid and free versions. The paid version is exceptionally powerful and they show things such as seasonality trends which is critical if you are researching Christmas lights in July.
  3. WordStream is a keyword research tool with both free and paid versions. They have tools that help in sifting through large keyword lists and segmenting the information.
  4. Market Samurai is a remarkable keyword research software that you purchase for a one-time fee and place on your computer. This tool analyzes Google Adwords keyword data along with competition and many other factors. This is much more than just a keyword research tool.
  5. Google Keyword Tool: This is a free tool that is powered by Google Adwords data and is great to use keyword research tool. This is the best tool for quick local business or for topics with low search volume. Google reports higher levels of daily searches than WordTracker or Keyword Discovery.

More research tools

  1. Google Alerts: This is a free email alert service. Just enter in the search term that you are researching and Google Alerts will send an email daily, weekly or as it happens. Google delivers snippets of web pages or news stories directly to your email box.
  2. Google Trends: View popularity of topics over time. Based on Google search data, graphs of search volume are available. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Graphs show the relative popularity of each search term over a specified period of time – (data since 2004).
  3. SEODigger: This is a powerful analyzer of your competition and which phrases they are being ranked for. Discover which keywords any website is being ranked for on Google. This is limited to websites with positions in the top 20 results.
  4. KeywordSpy is another powerful research tool that uncovers which phrases your competition is using. They claim to have the largest such database of any of the leyword competitor tools.
  5. Google Keyword Tool Box: Collection of Google tools all kept in one easy to access location: googlekeywordtool.com
  6. Delicious.com: This is a social bookmarking site where the bookmarks are completely searchable by keyword tags. These are all high quality resources that others have thought enough of to bookmark.

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