Keyword research tool

[opportunist86]

Which tool is good for keyword research. I'm asking as a publisher. I was informed that google adword tool is for advertisers.

[outwest]

google kw tool is designed for advertisers however in order for them to get advertisers they publish monthly search numbers for the kws entered, and those are extremely valuable to us webmasters so almost all of us use that tool and all the tools we buy also use that tool to mine data

I also use market samurai mostly to analyze the top 10 on google
you can do this for "free" but it will take you 20 times longer

[KeNiQ]

I love market samurai

[rakesh1600193]

Google adwords is the best tool and if you do not want to do keyword research then pick the keywords from your competitor sites.

[varshyl111]

I agree that Google adword is better for advertiser, I use wordtracker I think that is good

[alinpion]

Google keyword tool is the best free tool that you will find on the web for keyword research. Other good tools (not free) are : Scrape Box and Samurai Market.

[SimpleSEOTips]

As a publisher you need to keep an eye on the Contextual Targeting Tool which will give you approximate EPCs for keyword groups: What's the Contextual Targeting Tool? - AdWords Help
Use this for potential earnings/keyword groupings and the Adwords Traffic Estimator for search traffic volumes and you should have a lot of actionable data.

[Kukelka]

I think that the 'niche finder' keyword tool is really good. I thinking to buy it .Anyone have this tool?

[SamDenial]

Well no one is better than the Google adwords keyword tool. Go for it for keyword research.

[mtmjohn]

I love Google Keyword Tool & Micro Niche Finder

[julianbooth123]

Google Adwords keyword research tool is the best one for keyword research.

[outwest]

Adwords tool is good but
how to analyze google top 10>?

SEO Quake tells you the number of backlinks , the PR and domain age etc
but
it cannot analyze the backlinks PR and anchor text
It cannot analyze the onpage SEO (kw in title, head, desc, and url)
at a glance for the top 10 google sites

thats primarily what I use Market Samurai for, top 10 on Google analyzing

searching kws? I use Adwords google tool since its much faster than Market Samurai

[SEOtraveler]

google keyword tool is not just for advertisers and is useful, to a certain extent though... while it's good to get some keyword insights out of it, the tool is definitely insufficient for more advanced keyword research

it is best to get keyword research tools that bundle in various third party tools and kw research methods. there is one rank tracker that does kw research with google adwords tool, sem rush, keyword discovery, wordtracker - all nice services to find your niche and you use them with one tool + check kw rankings and keyword traffic with it later on

Rank Tracker - Track Your Search Engine Rankings Easily!

[razorico]

I found semrush/ very useful for organic keyword research, because it much more effective in suggestions than GKT, and helps me when I need some long-tails.

[bateati]

If you're going to use google keyword make sure you're doing 'exact' searchs.

[outwest]

use the tool and click "broad" and that will give you related terms

then click "exact" and that will tell you the exact number of searches for each term it pulls up (puts the terms in brackets for exact)

[supershoesclub]

I do think whatever advertiser and publisher.google adwords is still the best tool to use.for me, i also use semrush to track the site's top 10 keywords for ranking .It reallys work so well.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by supershoesclub

I do think whatever advertiser and publisher.google adwords is still the best tool to use.for me, i also use semrush to track the site's top 10 keywords for ranking .It reallys work so well.

Isnt semrush like 80 bucks a month

[simonbuzz]

I don't see any difference between Google Keyword Too And Market Samurai and any ways we all know that MS use data from google

[outwest]

Originally Posted by simonbuzz

I don't see any difference between Google Keyword Too And Market Samurai and any ways we all know that MS use data from google

they supposedly use the same database,
however Market samurai is painfully slow to search kws
while google adwords tool using the same database, is lightening fast

the adwords tool cannot do a top 10 competition analysis,
thats why I use Market Samurai for that

supposedly SEOquake does this for "free"
sure it can show PR of the sites, number of backlinks but

It cannot show
1. strength of the backlinks, analyzing the PR, and anchor text of the existing backlinks

2, it cannot show the onpage SEO of the top 10, (kw in url, title, header, description)
Without that information its almost impossible to analyze your competition.

Thats basically what I use Market Samurai for, the top 10 google analysis of the competition (at one glance)
this only takes about 30 secs with Market Samarai

If you search kws with Market Samurai? Its VERY slow, just do that with the adwords tool directly

I see this as the best of both worlds

No free tool can do the top 10 Google analysis, IMO in a timely manner,
there is no free tool out there including SEO quake that is capable of this

and
Time is Money

I analyze 100s of kws per day using market samurai for the top 10 google competition

with it? this would be impossible.
The top 10 analysis I can do in 30 secs with Market Samurai , would take IMO 20 minutes to do for free by hand, and thats conservative

[John Williamson]

Keyword Sniper Pro 2.0

[SEOtraveler]

seo powersuite rank tracker has def been faster than MS, at least in my experience

[Mike Anthony]

Originally Posted by outwest

Adwords tool is good but
how to analyze google top 10>?

SEO Quake tells you the number of backlinks , the PR and domain age etc
but
it cannot analyze the backlinks PR and anchor text

Seo SPyglass is still the best for that and yes Seoquake can give you the PR just click on the links section and it takes you to Yahoo explorer and gives you the PR on the links also. One of the aspects of competitive research is to see the actual links that your competitors are getting. Depending just on some numbers that a tool gives you isn't good analysis.

It cannot analyze the onpage SEO (kw in title, head, desc, and url)
at a glance for the top 10 google sites

Keyword in title is staring right at you in the serps when you use seoquake and if they have written a good description many times that will be right there as well.

Market samurai is a decent tool with alot of good rep but its way over rated.

[UMS]

Originally Posted by outwest

they supposedly use the same database,
however Market samurai is painfully slow to search kws
while google adwords tool using the same database, is lightening fast

the adwords tool cannot do a top 10 competition analysis,
thats why I use Market Samurai for that.

Market Samurai uses SEO Majestic for backlink data (as does Traffic Travis)

No free tool can do the top 10 Google analysis, IMO in a timely manner,
there is no free tool out there including SEO quake that is capable of this

and
Time is Money

Definitely no free tool, but with SECockpit, I can do a full top 10 competition analysis of hundreds or even thousands of keywords in just a few minutes.

Naturally, this type of power isn't free (or even cheap), but as you say "Time is Money".

[outwest]

Originally Posted by simonbuzz

I don't see any difference between Google Keyword Too And Market Samurai and any ways we all know that MS use data from google

They use the same Data base but
The google kw tool is 100 times faster than Market samurai for searching kws

MS is extremely slow for this

For analyzing Top 10 Google competition Market Samurai is very fast though

[brucaSEO]

No doubt Google Ad words is the best. It is fast as compared to other tools and also provide complete information about the relevant keywords and Market competition along with the global and locally searches.

[Egrove Systems]

Google adwords keywords tool
Semrush keywords tool
wordtracker tool
web ceo tool

[jubbi]

There are many but the fact is this all the tools fetching data from Google. So, you should use The Big G tool. meanz google Adword tool

[rakhi]

There are many tools available in the market.Mostly i use Google adwords keywords tool and Semrush keywords tool.

[smith2]

Google Keyword Tool is the best for all. It's data is reliable and update continually. So I think no better tool available.

Thank you

[razorico]

Originally Posted by outwest

Isnt semrush like 80 bucks a month

yes, it is, but in terms of suggestions semrush is much better than google adwords tool. (IMO)

[ButterflyGarden]

Here is a huge list of keyword tools - Keyword Tools

[gurleen]

I'm using the Google adword Keyword tool. It Is best selection tool.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Seo SPyglass is still the best for that and yes Seoquake can give you the PR just click on the links section and it takes you to Yahoo explorer and gives you the PR on the links also. One of the aspects of competitive research is to see the actual links that your competitors are getting. Depending just on some numbers that a tool gives you isn't good analysis.




Keyword in title is staring right at you in the serps when you use seoquake and if they have written a good description many times that will be right there as well.

Market samurai is a decent tool with alot of good rep but its way over rated.

so tell me how you are going to analyze the top 10 on google for free with SEOquake?
you say kw in title etc is staring at you sure but its not laid out in a chart like Traffic TRavis or Market Samurai
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Who can work with a mess like that looking at all those websites you would need to get a notepad and keep notes

How you gonna analyze PR of backlinks? or anchor text of backlinks with SEOquake? you cant
its a very weak imitation of a paid tool and very disorganized trying to do it that way

all these guys who just use free tools more power to them I guess but
it would drive me nuts once you have a nice paid tool you cant go back