Keyword research tool

[jonline]

Im looking for a keyword research tool preerrably free but im willing to spend if necessary.

Ive used googles adwords tool but apparenty its inaccurate. So here are a few things i would like the keyword tool to have
- give me an indication of how difficult it will be to rank highly
- give me an idea of how many clicks (how much traffic) i can expect for e.g. being on first page

Ive heard brad callens nichefinder may be able to help me out with point 1 but im worried that as it uses google adword tool it for searches. it may just divide the searches by the number of sites or something like that.

Please help!

[solado]

I use traffic travis its free and tells you the SERPS, page ranks, how easy it will be to rank etc.

[MikeFriedman]

Originally Posted by solado

I use traffic travis its free and tells you the SERPS, page ranks, how easy it will be to rank etc.

It's difficulty rating is complete bull**** though. It also tells you nothing about the quality of the backlinks a site has.

Use Traffic Travis and then use SEO SpyGlass to check out the backlinks of the top sites.

[freight]

Originally Posted by solado

I use traffic travis its free and tells you the SERPS, page ranks, how easy it will be to rank etc.

This looks neat I am going to check it out thanks mate

[jonline]

i agree thanks alot but mike friedman could you explain what you mean by its difficulty rating isnt good? like did you try ranking for an easy term but found it difficult?

[Blindbiz]

Thank for the Traffic Travis tool. It's going to make me look goo to my customers.The PDF feature is perfect.

[Gary Richards]

I personally use keywordcountry.com it works great and equips you with more than 12 internet marketing tools.You are able to get
-Competitor rip keywords
-LSI keywords
-Link building tools
-Profitable niches list
-SEO strategy tools
and quite a few other great features quite useful for SEO and internet marketing.

[jonline]

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Use Traffic Travis and then use SEO SpyGlass to check out the backlinks of the top sites.

thank you for the spy glass tip. looks like a great bit of software!

Originally Posted by Gary Richards

I personally use keywordcountry.com it works great and equips you with more than 12 internet marketing tools.You are able to get
-Competitor rip keywords
-LSI keywords
-Link building tools
-Profitable niches list
-SEO strategy tools
and quite a few other great features quite useful for SEO and internet marketing.

ill be sure to check it out now! thanks again!

[MikeFriedman]

Originally Posted by freight

This looks neat I am going to check it out thanks mate

From what I can figure, it bases its difficulty rating largely off the number or results in the SERP. It factors in other things too, and I am not sure exactly what else it uses. If you run a bunch of keywords through it though, you will quickly see that the number of listings is a big factor.

Anyone that tells you to use the number of listings in a SERP to determine how difficult the keyword is to rank for has no idea what they are talking about.

Secondly, it only checks the number of backlinks a page has. It does nothing to check anything further about the links. The number of backlinks is almost useless. A site could have 20,000 backlinks, but if they are all PR 0 and PR n/a pages, it will be a piece of cake to outrank. Not to mention it doesn't tell you what anchor text is used in the backlinks.

That is why I say its rating system is bull****.

[jonline]

I was wondering what are good indicators of how hard it will be to rank no.1 or on page 1.

• Should I check page rank of all of every one on the 1st page and i dont know average it to see how difficult it will be to get on page 1
• Or should I use something like seomoz/traffic travis' site authority rating
• what im hoping to do is actually make my own kei formula

The problem with these methods i think are that site with high page rank or authority may not be well ranked for that keyword

Do you have any suggestions?

Please and thank you!

[kithelper]

I like Market Samurai but it eats a lot of my processor speed and it keeps me hanging overtime. Does anyone know that uses low memory...

[John Conner]

Here some of few keyword tools: Google adword keyword tools Google trends Google wonder wheel

[thecableguy]

- give me an idea of how many clicks (how much traffic) i can expect for e.g. being on first page

Here's some click studies that can help you guesstimate what a page one ranking might be worth:

How Much Money is a Top Google Ranking Worth to Your Business?
Top Google Result Gets 36.4% of Clicks [Study] - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
Organic Click-Thru Rates Tumbling; Only 52% Click On Page One, Study Suggests