Keyword Research & Suggestion Tools

Overview: These are free and paid tools which will help you find which keywords to target and how competitive they are. Here is a video offering an introduction to keyword research

At the bottom of this page are a link to a free keyword research PDF and a few more free background videos about understanding keyword research and using keyword research tools.

Variety is the Spice of Life

SEO Toolbar – Free toolbar that adds a dozen cool keyword research tools right in your browser. 🙂 Pick your favorites amongst them and search all of them with 1 click whenever you want to do keyword research.

Traditional Keyword Suggestion Tools

• SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool – tool shows top keyword phrases from Wordtracker.
• Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool – recommends keywords based on a keyword you enter or a URL you have the tool analyze
• Microsoft Ad Intelligence – brilliant extension for Microsoft Excel which puts a load of great keyword research data directly into Excel.
• Google Suggest Tool – shows frequently search for phrases starting with the words and letters in your query.
• WordStream Keyword Tool – allows you to export a list of thousands of keywords for free.
• Wordtracker Free Keywords – free keyword suggestions from Wordtracker. Wordtracker also has a more advanced paid version, and sells top keyword reports.
• Keyword Discovery – free keyword tool from Trellian. Trellian also has a more advanced paid version of Keyword Discovery.
• Uber Suggest – uses Google Instant to generate keyword suggestions
• Wordze – nice for generating decently large keyword lists quickly and inserting them into paid search campaigns.
• Yahoo! Clues – Yahoo! has an interesting keyword tool which offers demographic & search funnel data by keyword. They shut down their general purpose old keyword tool a few years ago.

Keyword Valuation Tools

• Google Traffic Estimator – shows the estimated bids prices and ad clicks for the top ranked AdWords ad. Allows you to check for [exact match], “phrase match”, or broad match.

Keyword Extensions