Best tools for determining keyword ranking difficulty

[Instructor]

What are the best tools for this that you've personally used?

Thanks

[Daniel Wilson]

Market Samurai and Traffic Travis

[Robert X]

Google itself. Keyword tool

[UMS]

Originally Posted by Robert X

Google itself. Keyword tool

Really? Want to explain your method for determining keyword ranking difficulty with GAKT?

[Instructor]

Originally Posted by Daniel Wilson

Market Samurai and Traffic Travis

Cool. Thanks. Is there a way to get a discount that you know of?

[cashcentral]

google's keyword tool is the best period.

its also free....

just make sure to put keywords in [] or "" , show only relevant topics...

[Instructor]

Pretty sure that will not help me determine ranking difficulty in the sense that I'm asking, but thanks anyway. However I can see where you're coming from.

[footbag_man]

The best is Micro Niche Finder NOT the google KW tool..

Micro niche finder gives you strength of competition which is vital.

If you dont want to pay for it you can just pay a guy a fiverr.com to do it for you... That's what I do.

Originally Posted by Instructor

What are the best tools for this that you've personally used?

Thanks

[footbag_man]

Originally Posted by talks 44

Any link for google keyword tool?

Like I said I recommened Micro Niche Finder or even Market Samurai..

But if you want to use the google to here is the link:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

[Rukshan]

I use brad callen's NF to check the competition.

[razorico]

I look at the competition column in semrush, to analyse of it's level.

[sackboy127]

I personally use Market Samurai.

But you can get a good general idea by looking at how many root domains are on page one (with KW in title tag), and checking the PR as well.

[MikeTheBuilder]

I personally like semrush - It's pretty darn accurate when doing keyword research and it gives (CPC) difficulty ratings and more. It's a monthly subscription if you can afford it. You do however, get 10 free limited searches a day.

[xmlconversion]

hey,
I think market samurai and google keywords tool are the best for determining keyword ranking difficulty.

[Juvv2096]

micro niche finder.. i find it way better than market samurai. I have used them both and prefer MNF.

[StoneWilson]

Traffic Travis and Google Adwords Keyword Tool. But I'm doubting their accuracy now, one of my sites now got 2 keywords ranked in top 5, both are got 2K exact searches according to Google Adwords Keyword Tool, but I only got 10 unique IPs per day. Why is that?

[mkjohn]

According to me it is Google add-words keyword tools.

[devonm]

Traffic Travis is what I use along with exact keyword term matching in Google Keyword tool.

[SmileKenya]

From my little experience and research you can use several, combining them to get the best and with high cpc first use google keyword tools to get your keywords next use traffic travis to see you it is performing etc and you are still free to test it on market sumurai with this combination you cannot go wrong, best of luck buddy!

[EricBaglio]

Market Samurai is my favorite for this. I believe SenukeX does too but I wouldn't pay that much money just for keyword competition analysis.

[UMS]

So much useless information in this thread.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool (GAKT) does NOT tell you how difficult it is to rank for a particular keyword.

Sure, any keyword with a very large number of exact searches and high CPC, probably is hard to rank for, but you can't know for sure if you rely purely by using GAKT.

Either do a manual scan of the top 10 results, or use software like Market Samurai, Traffic Travis or Niche Finder.

[xxxJamesxxx]

I've seen Micro Niche Finder mentioned a few times in this thread however the last time I used it (be about 8 months ago) I found it was giving really inaccurate results.

Is this still the case or have they sorted it out now?

James Scholes

[ralchevd]

SEOmoz Keyword Difficulty Tool

[futuremills]

traffic travis has always been a good idea to get an estimate

[russkampmann]

I also use Market Samurai, but others have given me different results, so who knows which is best?

[bitriot]

Sometimes I just pick key words from google keyword tool and dump them into market samurai and that works OK.

When I really mean business though, my process goes like this:

1. Run Long Tail Pro to generate a large list of keywords including EMD availability, CPC and search volume.

2. Dump the keyword I like with EMD available into google keyword tool and download CSV of all the resulting [exact] keywords.

3. Run the CSV through Stealth Competition Analyzer to find the best related keywords (SCA shows figures like competing pages, "real" competing pages, competition strength and so on)

I generally will run all keywords through Market Samurai to make sure they are rankable.