Top 5 Keyword Research Tools - page 3

by Sarah Manners, 8/10/2006

Digital Point's Keyword Suggestion Tool

Digital Point's Keyword Suggestion Tool is FREE and displays results from both Wordtracker and Overture to help you determine which keywords and phrases are searched for most often.
The tools coolest feature is that it allows you to enter a keyword/phrase as well as the market you wish to search that term in (i.e. USA/Japan), but the market-related search data is unfortunately only relevant for Overtures results.

Wordtracker

Wordtracker is definitely one of the old favourites when it comes to keyword research. With its statistics coming from meta-search engines only, Wordtracker compiles a massive database of keywords and phrases which online users search for. Apart from showing you how often specific keywords/phrases are searched for as well as the number of sites for which they compete. Wordtracker's related keyword facility will expose you to related key phrases you'd never even considered. An awesome feature is its ability to differentiate between search terms that include capitalization, word ordering and plurality.

An extremely user friendly tool, Wordtracker displays results beautifully - the number of searchers conducted per keyword per day, the keywords which compete with it and the KEI are all displayed in one easy to use table. You can even save multiple projects where your various keyword lists are saved, an export option even allows you to email the list to your client - goodbye cutting and pasting.

Try out the free trial, but remember that this is just a small taste of what Wordtracker can do for you. Subscribe to this tool and you'll have access to a host of additional features including simple search, comprehensive search, misspellings search, keyword projects and top 1000 reports. The folks at Wordtracker are so confident about their product that they even offer an unconditional money-back guarantee if you're not fully satisfied with the paid service.

These are but five of a vast array of keyword research tools at your disposal. Play around to discover which tools best suit you and keep your eyes open and your RSS refreshed to find out about new tools as well as updates to old favourites.

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