4 Keyword Tools You Must Use For Adsense (and everything else)
The hunt for keyword is always something on the mind of online marketers. There are some keywords you’re never going to come up with, no matter how much brainstorming you do. But nevre fear. There are more than a few free tools that you can use to find profitable keywords in any category.
1. Wordtracker Free Tool
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
Wordtracker is known for being the number one place to do keyword research for a fee (and their pay per search system is pretty good, no doubt, but they also have a free tool available for finding and deep mining keywords that’s pretty good as well. Plug in a keyword, hit return, and you’re off and runnng.
2. The GoodKeywords Tool at
http://www.goodkeywords.com/
Pulling keyword suggestions from Overture (when you CAN access their tool, more on that in a minute, and Google, the GoodKeywords free tool is a program that you can use to dig out prime keywords, and find long tail keywords as well. It’s interface is a little clunky, forcing you to either go back or remember the word you ant to mine to dig deeper, but what can I complain about. It’s free, man!
NOTE: The Good Keywords program is pretty much useless since Overture got rid of it’s keyword lookup capabilities.
Of course, the GoodKeywords program is a hook for you to get the upgraded program, or the suite of programs from the Softnik site (which are actually pretty cool programs), but don’t worry, GoodKeywords is free (for now, anyway.)
3. Overture Keyword Selector Tool (NOW GONE-SORRY..)
inventory.overture.com/
I put this third because, even though this has been considered on the primary tools for keyword research in the past, there has been rumor that Overture (Yahoo) is going to stop support of it. Shame. It was considered that this tool was the Bible for determining how much traffic a keyword actually got (though I never found it to be entirely accurate myself).
Even now, access to this this tool online is virtually impossible, probably due to reduced resources. But I read a thread ona forum online that stated that the tool is now dead, but being reworked for a later date. Let’s hope so. We can only wait and see. In the meantime, I can only say this: it’s the main keyword research tool you need that isn’t there. Does that make sense?
4. Google Keyword Tool
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Though the Google Keyword Tool doesn’t give you hard number of searches like Overture’s tool, it’s great because, well, it’s Google’s. Love it or hate it, Google rules search, with 43 percent of the search market in it’s hot little hands. And this is their tool. With it you can find keyword variations, and keywords related to other sites (a handy tool to use when spying on other competitor sites as well).
The Google keyword also displays search volume, but it does it with a graph instead of hand numbers, so you can never really know how the graph relates to the numbers or other actual keywords. Still, for finding good keywords, it’s a good tool for the price-free.
We’ll cover more tools in a upcoming post.
Till then, keep building!
Gary