Best 4 Keyword Search Tools
Find Words Which Attract Visitors and Search Engines to Your Website
Jun 3, 2008
Everyone is searching for the best and cheapest method for finding keywords for their articles, websites, landing pages, and other online endeavors. Although there is plenty of keyword search tools and programs on the Internet for people to purchase or pay a monthly fee to access a database.
There is nothing like being able to use free services to obtain the same results.
Research of Keyword Tools
The evaluation criteria were based on the selection common keywords, such as:
- Cancer Diets
- Computer Speakers
- Keyword Tools
- Freelance Writer
- Affiliate Software
- MS Office
- and several others
The results were varied; with some tools returning 100 or as few as two keywords for the same search. Some of the keyword word tools provided a wealth of important information, while others just provided related keywords and terms.
Some keyword tools provided free limited access and others had no limitations on access. Even though some provided limited access, there were more than enough resources for everyday users.
Businesses whose bottom line depends on c-commerce may want to purchase the full unlimited versions of the keyword tools.
These free keyword tools are very useful for finding the popular keywords which will help drive traffic to your website or landing page.
Top 4 Free Keyword Tools
The following keyword search tools are provided in no particular order.
- Trellian Keyword Discovery – uses keyword data from major search engines and provides up to 100 top keywords and terms. You must join to get full access to keywords and terms beyond the initial 100.
- Word Tracker – provides up to 100 top keyword and terms. This keyword tool has an adult filter and you must join to view keywords and terms beyond the initial 100.
- Google Adwords Keyword Tool – you have full access and you are supplied with advertiser competition, average searches, last average monthly searches, average cost per click, and more. The presentation is in a bar graph, which indicates search rates for each keyword or term.
- SEO Book Keyword Search Tool – you have access to average daily searches per keyword or term. You can download keyword search results to a spreadsheet. You are provided with Word Tracker count, Google daily averages, Yahoo daily averages, and MSN daily averages for each keyword.
Other Useful Free Keyword Tools
These two keyword tools do not provide keywords or terms, however they provide additional important data.
MSN Keyword Forecast Tool – provides forecasted traffic for the keyword or term based on several years of data collection. It also provides forecasted data based on demographics of web users for each keyword and term.
SpyFu Keyword Tool – provides you with the data such as:
- Range of cost per click bids
- Average clicks per day
- Average cost per day based on the range of cost per click range
- Data is provided for the last two years.
Also, you are provided with the number of search results for the keyword, for example: cancer has 234 million results on the web. Another interesting set of data provided is the top five advertisers using this same keyword or term.
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