Best Keyword Research Tool

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.

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.

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

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.

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Clint

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

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!

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

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.

google keywords tool is enough if you use it wisely

You only need Google and Google keyword tool.

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

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.

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

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

Google keyword tool is enough

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.

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.

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.

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

both are free and very easy to use

GKT for keyword research + SERP Attacks for competition research

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.

Google Adwords Keyword Research Tool!

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

Google Keyword Tool

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.

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.

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

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

Anyone use Jaaxy.com?

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).

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

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.

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

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.

google keyword tool is free and is fast

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

really?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I used to use MS but have since gone over to SECockpit. Agreed that MS is cheaper but has a habit of sitting for anywhere upto 10 minutes to do KW analysis on large lists. SECockpit being browser based is alot faster and analyses all your keywords at once without hanging, provides competition analysis of all your keywords at once and domain availability, lets you know if there are sniper, YouTube or major eCommerce sites for your keywords and a host of other extras you won't find in MS. The downside though is that SECockpit is a monthly subscription and not built for those on a tight budget and it limits you on inputting large lists for KW analysis, so if you get a list 500 words, then you have to cut it down into 100 word blocks.

There are many but i use mostly Google Keyword tool, WordTracker and MarketSamruti etc.

Google is what I use and it never fails!

am interested with google adwords...someone to show me around?