Best Keyword Research Tool

[KentChow]

Hi all,

I am curious what the best keyword research tool is out there.

I use Market Samurai, Niche Finder, and recently got LongTail Pro and love it.

Just curious if Micro Niche Finder or any other that I should have?

I find they all do similar thing, I could find many great keywords with low competition and high volume search - exact domain names.

Any Pros and Cons and your take to share?

[JSProjects]

The Google Keyword Tool.

Most of the software pulls data from the GKT, so why not go straight to the source? It's also much, much, faster in most cases.

[Quiksilver8]

I agree with JSProjects. They mostly pull all the information from Google Keyword tool, however some of them create nice conveniences that make keyword research easier.

I find myself running back to GKT a lot of the time anyway as well because of it's speed.

[spen]

Originally Posted by KentChow

Hi all,

I am curious what the best keyword research tool is out there.

I use Market Samurai, Niche Finder, and recently got LongTail Pro and love it.

Just curious if Micro Niche Finder or any other that I should have?

I find they all do similar thing, I could find many great keywords with low competition and high volume search - exact domain names.

Any Pros and Cons and your take to share?

I also use market samurai,but I couldn't find out a great keyword From July to the present

[Clint Butler]

I use SECockpit. It pulls its data from Google and SEOMoz API so I find it the most accurate of all of them. I also own Micro Niche Finder and Marketing Samurai.

Regards,
Clint

[outwest]

There are a lot of kw tools to find kws
however the good ones use google kw tool database

So why not just go directly and use google Kw tool
its faster than all the paid tools that use it

Now for analyzing google top 10?
Market Samurai paid tool is what I use

[Ronno99]

Sometimes it is useful to ask what exactly you are trying to do.

Best for what?

[JoshuaG]

I love Micro Niche Finder.

Being able to quickly see the SEO strength of your competitors, number of links they have, and quickly do a manual review of any given site right from the tool saves me tons of time and effort.

And that's not to mention all the related niches you can find by running the tool. I don't know how many times I've searched on one keyword and went a completely different direction thanks to the results it returned!

[Jack Samurai]

Google keyword tool and wordtracker that is the best to me.

[C Rebecca]

Well, I have been using 'Keyword Country' and it is delivering very good results to me.

The best part is, it tells me about the profitability of the keyword, so that I can make up my mind for including that keyword in my campaign.

[manchito]

Originally Posted by Clint Butler

I use SECockpit. It pulls its data from Google and SEOMoz API so I find it the most accurate of all of them. I also own Micro Niche Finder and Marketing Samurai.

Regards,
Clint

Yes I use it too... I love it, however once I founds my keywords i just double check them with several other resources:
a) Market Samurai
b) Google KW Tool
c) Some friends(Doing the same as me) opinion

If my keywords pass those 'tests' I just go on with it. And even so, in some cases (very rare,btw) I am not able to rank. Overall I am happy with it

[gorgoth999]

google keywords tool is enough if you use it wisely

[bastion]

You only need Google and Google keyword tool.

Also, Market Samurai is very useful, but it is replaceable.

[imdomination]

I almost only use Google Keyword Tool to find the actual keywords. Then Market Samurai blows everyone else out of the water when it comes to competition analysis.

[outwest]

Also do not listen to people who say you can analyze top 10 google competiton for free with SEO Quake.
Theoretically its possible but it takes 20 times longer and you end up writing everything on a notepad, you cannot get a 10 sites at one glance ...snapshot of the backlinks to the page. PR, onpage SEO factors etc etc with SEOquake like you can with Market Samurai

[101millionAds]

I have used Micro Niche Finder and a cupple of more but i do not rely on them as much as Google keyword tool

[webmaster1742]

Google keyword tool is enough

[FraserC]

The Google Keyword Tool is the only tool most people will ever need. Knowing what people are searching for, and the amount of times a month they're searching is really all you need.

The biggest problem with the GAKT is all the spreadsheets you get. Eventually you're totally swimming in spreadsheets, and it's a total hassle to remove duplicates, merge spreadsheets, etc.

I've got 30,000 keywords that I've collected, but I moved them into a database. That's how I get the 100,000 search visitors a day - I target all the keywords in my niche.

Beyond the GAKT, you want to use tools that scrape Google Suggest. Like Ubersuggest. That gives you an enormous number of longtail search queries you can target.

[webdevpro]

In General Google Keyword Tools is one of the best but you can also try Free Keyword Tools from WordStream as they boasts they are far better than GKT with Trillions of keyword in their DB.

[jagthehat]

It depends how many keywords you want. If you want around 800 selections use Google Keyword tool, but if your are into CPC in a big way and need around 50 to 100 thousand use Wordtream.

[AksGame]

i use google keywords tool and traffic travis which gives top 10 competition on google

both are free and very easy to use

[outwest]

Originally Posted by AksGame

i use google keywords tool and traffic travis which gives top 10 competition on google

both are free and very easy to use

traffic travis free tool does not pull up backlinks
I even updated mine a few days ago with the latest update

no backlinks show

[JamieSEO]

GKT for keyword research + SERP Attacks for competition research

[LinkingService]

Your brain is the best keyword tool followed by Google. If you have basic understanding about how to look at keyword traffic factors, analyse sites ranking in top etc you don't really need tools.

There are quite a few in the market and each have their pros & cons. Most of them offer free trial, just use them and see which one works best for you. Market Samurai, Traffic Travis, SERP attacks etc are a few to name.

[ankushkohli]

Google Adwords Keyword Research Tool!

[jahangir87]

I use market samurai and Google adwords keyword tool and both are working fine for me according to my goals.

[Matt Broody]

Google Keyword Tool

[grafx77]

Market Samurai is by far the best keyword research tool (obviously uses GKT database). I disagree with those who say GKT is the fastest as it only is if you want to gain insight into one keyword at a time for ONE MATCH TYPE.

MS, when gathering info, gathers exact, phrase, and broad matches along with the "trends" information for all keywords at once. In order to do that with GKT, you have to run 3 separate searches not including the other research. MS will also store that information for you to use at a later date, which GKT does not, unless you create spreadsheets out of everything, which can be troublesome when creating for more than one keyword.

NOTE- GKT will only give you basic keyword research. If you really want to go even further with longtail keywords and MANY of them, your going to need to use Wordtracker. GKT doesn't hold a flame to Wordtracker when you have to find many, easily ranking keywords.

[razorico]

I agree with those, who said that google keyword tool is enough, but for in-depth keyword research it's not so useful, because it shows only oa few variants of keywords in compare to paid tools, like semrush or keywordspy.

[CMNS]

For me, Google Keyword Tool and Market Samurai is enough.

You will need to be creative though, plus some experience will help

[gurokevin]

Anyone use Jaaxy.com?

[alex1800]

SECockpit is by far the best if you want to sift through loads of keywords in a short amount of time. It literally takes 30 seconds (as advertised) to do competition analysis on 800 keywords(using the SEOMoz API). And the competition analysis is actually thorough and accurate considering it's all done automatically(way more thorough then any other keyword tool that does competition analysis automatically). Then one my favorite features is you take the best keywords from every search, and throw them all into one of cloud based folders (cloud based means the tool is not used on your computer, it's used on their server)and see how all your best keywords stack up against each other and pick the best of the best.

After that, then you can do your own more thorough competition analysis from all the keywords that ended up at the top. While the the competition analysis isn't perfect it will definitely put the worst keywords to the bottom and the best to the top and you will find awesome keywords on a daily basis if you use the tool to it's potential. I sift through 10,000 keywords in all of 15 minutes getting competition analysis for every one.

For everyone that likes market samurai, if you combined the keyword sifting power of SECockpit with the thorough competition analysis of Market samurai you would have the ultimate tag team of keyword research.

I have one warning though, while SECockpit is awesome it is expensive and addicting to use. I think if you buy it though an affiliate you can get a 5 day trial for 1$ or something like that, but all in all it costs I think 77 monthly and I believe 50 a month if you pay for it 6 months at a time.

Also I am in no way affiliated with SECockpit, it just brought me from hating keyword research to loving it.

Just watch the video they have, and know they don't embellish at all, how they say it works, is actually how it works (kind of a rare concept in IM).

[dagaul101]

I think one of the best if the Google Keyword External Tool, and it's free

[NEseO]

Google Keyword Tool for me and a bit of brains!! No point paying for something else when you can get all the info you need right there.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by NEseO

Google Keyword Tool for me and a bit of brains!! No point paying for something else when you can get all the info you need right there.

you can analyze google top 10 competition with Google kw tool?
Nope

For
an All in one Glance View of the top 10 Google Competition

Market Samurai spits out

1, Domain Age
2. PR
3. Backlinks to Page (also analyzes Anchor text and PR)
4, Backlinks to Site
5. Indexed Pages in Domain
6. Onpage SEO factors. (kw in domain, title, url, description) etc
7. Index status for Yahoo and DMOZ
etc etc etc etc

All of that is done in 30 seconds, and presented in an All in One Top 10 View

With Paid Market Samurai

That is Why we Pay for Market Samurai

thats why you continually see poster after poster after poster say they use

1. Google Kw Tool
2. Market Samurai


They are just smart enough to know what tools they need. Do you seriously think that many guys are paying 97 bucks for a program that they dont need? that they could get the same info for free? Hell I am cheap , it takes a lot of prodding and justification for me to shell out any money, and I gladly paid for Market Samurai.

People who say Google kw tool is all you need, are either delusional , or something is missing in that analysis

IMO anyone who thinks you can be successful (as successful) in this buss with no paid tools,
is missing out

any business requires some initial outlay of money

Thats like a carpenter going to work and thinking he can be successful with no tools, or better yet , he can just borrow tools from others. LOL

[andean]

Google Keyword External Tool with an extra effort is the best value.

[theebookcavern]

Hey Guys,

My opinions is that the only keyword tool you need is the Google Keyword tool.

However, at a cost of $97 Market Samurai is definitely a worthwhile investment because it saves you so much time. You can simply set all the parameters around the keywords you want to target it and then apply these as a filter so it only returns the keywords you want. The phrase to broad match % alone helps you filter out lots of keywords that potentially look good but are actually very rarely searched for in that order. That's without even mentioning the brilliant SEO competition feature.

[tryinghard]

google keyword tool is free and is fast

[outwest]

Originally Posted by theebookcavern

Hey Guys,

My opinions is that the only keyword tool you need is the Google Keyword tool.

However, at a cost of $97 Market Samurai is definitely a worthwhile investment because it saves you so much time. You can simply set all the parameters around the keywords you want to target it and then apply these as a filter so it only returns the keywords you want. The phrase to broad match % alone helps you filter out lots of keywords that potentially look good but are actually very rarely searched for in that order. That's without even mentioning the brilliant SEO competition feature.

If I could use a good Free tool that was of equal ability and speed as Market Samurai to analyze Google top 10 competition < I would use it and save myself 97 dollars

but there is nothing out there that can compare for free
In fact I dont think there are any paid tools that can outperform MS for this job.

Traffic Travis? to me I downloaded the free version , it would not pull up backlinks, and even 4 months later I updated it............the new version would still not pull up backlinks. No way will I risk buying the paid version if the free version wont work for backlinks. If you google, a lot of people have this problem with Traffic Travis and it goes on for WEEKs not days. So, no thanks to that tool

I would say 80 percent of Warrior members seem to use Market Samurai, I might be a tad high on that estimate

[outwest]

Originally Posted by tryinghard

google keyword tool is free and is fast

I keep seeing guy say that, and you are right, its free and fast we mostly all use it to get the kws we need

my question is what tool do you use when you analyze Google top 10 competition? There are no free tools that do this well, or fast

[NEseO]

Originally Posted by outwest

you can analyze google top 10 competition with Google kw tool?
Nope

For
an All in one Glance View of the top 10 Google Competition

Market Samurai spits out

1, Domain Age
2. PR
3. Backlinks to Page (also analyzes Anchor text and PR)
4, Backlinks to Site
5. Indexed Pages in Domain
6. Onpage SEO factors. (kw in domain, title, url, description) etc
7. Index status for Yahoo and DMOZ
etc etc etc etc

All of that is done in 30 seconds, and presented in an All in One Top 10 View

With Paid Market Samurai

That is Why we Pay for Market Samurai

thats why you continually see poster after poster after poster say they use

1. Google Kw Tool
2. Market Samurai


They are just smart enough to know what tools they need. Do you seriously think that many guys are paying 97 bucks for a program that they dont need? that they could get the same info for free? Hell I am cheap , it takes a lot of prodding and justification for me to shell out any money, and I gladly paid for Market Samurai.

People who say Google kw tool is all you need, are either delusional , or something is missing in that analysis

IMO anyone who thinks you can be successful (as successful) in this buss with no paid tools,
is missing out

any business requires some initial outlay of money

Thats like a carpenter going to work and thinking he can be successful with no tools, or better yet , he can just borrow tools from others. LOL

Okay keep your hair on!!

I was not saying anything bad about MS and yes I hear it is a good tool, just that I choose not to use it.

There are other things I use and clearly didn't go into detail.

I will identify a lot of keywords related in a cluster, so go to Google KWT and identify lots of keywords with good search volume (exact). Then I will generally try to hit 3-5 keywords per page of a site with some pages that are about something related but different and not targeting anything (just get some bulk and content into the site).

I will generally go for all keywords regardless of the competition. Although this being said I will check the competition using either Traffic Travis as an overall view or just use SEO Quake addon for Firefox. From this I identify the keywords I want to mainly target on a page. So, if there was a keyword that was really really competitive then I would target it but not too heavily, I would go for the other medium difficulty keywords within the page. Then after time if I start to get up there for the harder word then I may choose to go for it.

Job done!

[theebookcavern]

Originally Posted by outwest

If I could use a good Free tool that was of equal ability and speed as Market Samurai to analyze Google top 10 competition < I would use it and save myself 97 dollars

but there is nothing out there that can compare for free
In fact I dont think there are any paid tools that can outperform MS for this job.

Traffic Travis? to me I downloaded the free version , it would not pull up backlinks, and even 4 months later I updated it............the new version would still not pull up backlinks. No way will I risk buying the paid version if the free version wont work for backlinks. If you google, a lot of people have this problem with Traffic Travis and it goes on for WEEKs not days. So, no thanks to that tool

I would say 80 percent of Warrior members seem to use Market Samurai, I might be a tad high on that estimate

Totally agree with you outwest. I wasn't trying to encourage people to use Google's KW tool only and not buy Market Samurai. What I meant was that you don't absolutely need Market Samurai but it comes highly, highly, highly recommended. For a 1 time payment of $97 you get free updates, a tool that you will be using for years to come and a tool that will save you hours each day. It really is a no brainer.

I would liken it to an email autoresponder. You don't technically need 1. You could collect the emails yourself, read up on all the legislation and then manage it all manually. However, the time it would cost is so high compared to the relatively low investment cost that it would not be the sensible option.

[outwest]

The guy that said he goes for every kw regardless of the competition
has me stumped

really?

[NEseO]

Originally Posted by outwest

The guy that said he goes for every kw regardless of the competition
has me stumped

really?

That's me

Let me give an example (not one I use though). Lets say you want to build an insurance site. So your front page will be some blurb and summary of what your site has. Then you would have 1 page for car insurance, 1 for home insurance, 1 for landlords insurance etc.

So take the landlords insurance page. You will search and find keywords like "landlords insurance" "cheap insurance for landlords" "compare landlord insurance" etc.

Now I don't know their search volumes or competition but lets say that "landlords insurance" is really competitive and the others are medium and medium to low competition. I would target the group of keywords on a page including "landlords insurance". Why? Well why not? Okay I may never rank for that keyword but there are times that you will.

So you hit all the pages with your backlinks following your strategy of what you believe works. Make sure you interlink pages well and there are times that you will eventually hit page 1 with the high competition keyword (and of course a lot of times you don't!!).

I have had times when I see my traffic volumes take a jump up and the usual case is that the high competition keyword has started to rank. Then, and only then, I will start to focus on getting top 3 position for this keyword.

Obviously this is just an example and I don't know if this is a competitive term but hope you get my thinking.

[Barry Unruh]

I keep hearing great things about SECockpit, but have not tried it.

I do use Market Samurai as my "go to" tool, but like using many features in GAKT, especially the Contextual Targeting Tool.

One thing I think people overlook about Market Samurai is it is not just a keyword research tool.

You use it for researching blogs, forum, web 2.0 sites for building backlinks in the Promotion Module.

You can post to your blog directly from Market Samurai using information you have found through the find content and publish modules.

You can get pingbacks for your blog through Market Samurai.

You can configure ads and add them to your blog from Clickbank, Amazon, PayDotCom, and Commission Junction.

You can jump from keyword research to researching domain names in an instant.

You have a good rank tracking tool integrated in the package.

Now for $97 that's one heck of a tool...you just need to learn to use all of it.

[Ben K]

Used and tried many tools like:
wordtracker
sitesell brainstromer
semrush
keyworddiscovery
marketsumarai


For getting list of keywords - semrush is good , for analyzing marketsummari is better

[Rukshan]

Google keyword tool is the best one. It's too fast. Additionally I use Niche finder and Traffic travis pro version for other analysis.

[HarryS]

I have Market Samurai, Microniche Finder and Long Tail Pro. My preference is Long Tail Pro because it is faster and it works consistently. The other two are extremely slow and there are times where Market Samurai fails to work at all.

[KentChow]

I am a happy customer of Long Tail Pro if you haven't heard about it.

It's a one-time cost and it's $77 on WSO if it's still available. Definitely Markt Samurai gives you more details of competition. I double check before grabbing the domain name and start working on the niche

I bought many high competition domain names before having all these tools. I use Google KW tool, but it only gives you the volume, but not the competition data to analysis.

I stay away from high PR and over hundred backlink niches for now.

I have heard about SECockpit and would give it a shot for a month. Why not just grab 10-20 low competition kw? It will save me tons of wasted time, effort, and budget if I could sort out good (low competiton) keywords quick.

I gonna build niche sites like factories and testing out how to optimize and speed up the process.

[Magnus Koenig]

I'm using Market Samurai and Adwords Keyword Tool. They are both great and giving me the service that I need.