10 Top SEO Keyword Search Tools

March 20, 2007 | Comments (7) | Filed under: SEO

One of the crucial first steps in developing or revamping a site is researching keywords you want to rank highly on in Google and other search engines. Generally, you want your site to rank well for the specific niche you’re in, so the goal is to find any keyword in your niche that is not overly used in other sites, but still has a large number of visitors searching for them every day. Once you determine what keywords you want they affect every other aspect of your site including investing in a domain for the site and coming up with a design that highlights your terms.

Here is a list of 10 powerful search tools you can use to help you find the best keywords for your site. Some of them are free while others :

  1. WordTracker
    1. Free Trial, $271.88 / year to subscribe
  2. Keyword Discovery
    1. Free Trial, $599.40 / year to subscribe
  3. Overture Keyword Selector Tool
    1. Free
  4. Nichebot
    1. $1.00 Trial, $0.33 / day to subscribe
  5. Google Adwords External Keyword Tool
    1. Free
  6. Digital Point Keyword Suggestion Tool
    1. Free, Donations Accepted
  7. Good Keywords
    1. Free, Downloadable Software Application
  8. Google Trends
    1. Free, Analyzes keyword Trends
  9. SpyFu
    1. Free
  10. SeoBook Keyword Tool
    1. Free
  11. WordZe
    1. $7.95 for trial, $35 per month

Of the three pay services, I have only paid for and continue to use WordTracker. WordTracker combines different results, such as those from Google, MSN, and Yahoo, to give you an overall score for your keywords compared to existing sites. I have read some good things about WordZe as well, but I have not yet tried their service myself. If anyone has an comments, good or bad, about any of these, please drop us a line…

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I don’t see anything on Nichebot that’s “free with registration”, just a $1 trial and subscriptions as low as 33 cents/day.

Kevin wrote on March 20, 2007 - 3:05 pm | Visit Link

Yeah, you’re completely right. Thanks for pointing out the Typo…

stark wrote on March 20, 2007 - 3:53 pm | Visit Link

WordTracker shows results from Google, MSN and Yahoo? I thought they only had results from some of the meta-search engines.

Shane wrote on March 20, 2007 - 3:58 pm | Visit Link

Yeah, Wordtracker gets it data from Dogpile and Metacrawler searches. Those meta engines may use Google, Yahoo and MSN for their search results, but the data Wordtracker is using doesn’t come from those big search engines.

Kevin wrote on March 20, 2007 - 4:25 pm | Visit Link

None of these, except for the Google and Yahoo keyword searches probably have a direct line to the search engine database for stats. The meta-search engines are the alternative and I think are still representative of actual search patterns and statistics.

stark wrote on March 20, 2007 - 8:13 pm | Visit Link

Thanks for the suggestions. I also use the keyword tracker tool on this site: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

It’s pretty good.

Fruit Engine wrote on May 18, 2007 - 11:52 am | Visit Link

I used keyword country a few times. Its great, but its not free. It has monthly fee, but I really owe all my earnings to that program.

Audi wrote on May 20, 2007 - 4:49 pm | Visit Link

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