We all know that selecting the right keywords is an important prerequisite for a good search engine visibility of a blog/website. There are many keyword tools available online, some of them being completely free and some are paid but offer a free edition with a few features.
We decided to list the best of the free tools which can help you research different keywords specific to your site and optimize the site.
1: Google Adwords Research Tool
Although this tool is primarily meant for Adwords bidders, this is also widely used by webmasters and publishers to measure the popularity of different keywords based on their Google search volume.
When it comes to finding the right keywords, Wordtracker is definitely a name you can count on. They primarily provide paid keyword research tools but they have a free tool too, which, for a particular query, can generate up to 100 related keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume.
Google Suggest also offers a nice way to research keywords. When you start typing a word in the Google suggest box, it starts showing the related most popular search queries in a drop down menu. Therefore you can immediately come to know about the related keywords / sentences for a particular search query. Even Google Toolbar has this feature but it doesn’t show the number of search results for the keywords.
4: SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
Although different SEO related sites have developed their own keyword research tools, the one by SEObook.com is worth mentioning. It is powered by Wordtracker and provides results which are much more comprehensive than the free tool provided by Wordtracker. It’s worth a try.
Good Keywords is another handy tool for researching keywords. It is a tiny 500kb program which offers several features when you start it. Mark has already described it in detail here.
This free search term suggestion tool by Trellian is a nice one too. Although it only shows the first hundred related keywords in its free edition but it still could be useful.
Have I missed anything out that you use to get the best keywords for YOUR site? Let everyone know in the comments.
By- Abhijeet Mukherjee is addicted to the internet and loves blogging and freelance writing. He blogs about tech tweaks, blogging tips, productivity hacks at Jeet Blog
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Tags: blogging tools, Google, keywords, search engines, seo
Thanks a lot for this article! I wasn’t even aware that google had such a useful tool! Most definetly these free tools will be able to boost traffic to my website!
Thanks a bunch!
Thanks for this article. I wasn’t aware of any of them.
If you ask me, #1 and #4 are the best of the flock
Thank you for this. This is really useful stuff
I use Google Keywords. WordTracker is a good alternative too.
I have been using wordtracker…will try keyword discovery.
Thanks for a great posting its so much helpful for me in my SEO works. All tools are new for me I tried Google, these are things which I waned to know but till now I was…
How good are tools like clickadequalizer or keywordelite?
Nice collection of Keywords tools with URL’s . I would like to share it with you more tools and i think these should be included in that List.
1. Search Funnels: Very good gives you keywords according the rank in google. Like if you keywords in top 5 it will show. http://adlab.msn.com/Search-Funnels/index.aspx?kwd=dell&direction=out&filter=top&filternum=5&newsearch=true
2. Keyword Suggestion Tool: It is a combination on worldtracker and overture.
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
Try these two tools also.