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The Top 6 Free Keyword Tools for Effective Keyword Research

By: Alex De Mostafa

If you want your website to have great search engine visibility, targeting effective keywords is absolutely essential. There is a plethora of keyword tools available online. Some of them are free while others are paid. However, some of the paid tools offer free trials or free editions with fewer features. Here are the top 5 free keyword tools that will help you find the best keywords to target on your website.

1. Google Adwords Keyword Tool

The Google Adwords tool is actually meant for people who bid on Adwords but it can be a highly effective tool for measuring the success of certain keywords on Google. There truly is no better place to get information about the search volume of keywords on Google than from Google itself. Webmasters and online publishers commonly refer to Google Adwords to check monthly and overall search volume. Adwords also shows the volume of advertiser competition for each keyword.

2. Google Suggest

Another keyword research tool from Google, Google Suggest generates a list of related keywords in your niche. In order to use Google Suggest, you simply need to type in your target keyword. Once you start typing the words in, Google suggests a variety of related keyword phrases in a drop down menu and also provides the number of search results for each keyword. Only the most popular keyword phrases related to the root keyword are shown.

3. Google Keyword Sandbox

Yet another Google keyword tool is the Google Sandbox. Since Google is the #1 search engine, it makes sense to take advantage of the free tools they offer. The Google keyword sandbox shows exact keyword terms as well as related ones. The advantage of using this tool is that Google has more access to search data than any other keyword tool provider out there. In fact, Google bought Urchin Web Analytics in order to be able to track data from other search engines besides Google.

4. Keyword Discovery Tool

The free Keyword Discovery Tool by Trellian is a nice tool that shows the first hundred keywords related to your search term. The keyword database at Keyword Discovery contains 35 billion keywords. Keyword Discovery gets data from more sources than Word Tracker does so the results are different. It draws its results from 200 search engines around the world. The Keyword Discovery Tool also takes into account that many people misspell words incorrectly and its results include common misspellings of popular search terms. The advantage of targeting misspelled keywords is that they are often far less competitive than keywords that are spelled correctly.

5. Overture Keyword Tool

The Overture Keyword Tool provides pretty accurate results that give you a rough idea of how popular certain keywords are. However, the search count seems a bit low for keywords on Overture because the tool uses figures based on Yahoo! Search queries from the month prior. One of the advantages of the Overture keyword tool is the fact that you can find popular keywords that are specific to the UK by using the Overture UK tool. You can also do keyword research by geographic region using the Overture tool.

6. Wordtracker Free Trial

The Wordtracker tool has several benefits including the fact that it comes up with related search terms automatically due to a built-in lateral search tool/thesaurus. The related keywords are gathered from pages that are thought to be related to your target keyword/niche. Wordtracker gathers data from the meta search engines Dogpile and MetaCrawler, meaning that its data is cleaner than that provided by other keyword tools.


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