Google Keyword Tool is the one used by many... In Addition you can be using Market Samurai for further analysis of the keywords

I personally use Google Keyword Too only and it works for me!

Google keyword tool is very good but if you want in depth analysis of a keyword, you may go for "Market Samurai". Actually it is used by the professional keyword researchers.

Keyword Discovery is good.

Yes i also use Google keyword tool and it's easy find keywords.

I am sure everybody would Google Keyword tool .

The Google Contextual Targeting Tool (within Google Adwords Keyword Tool) is fairly good and gives a more accurate figure regarding CPC.

Another free tool for expanding your seed keyword phrase is Keyword suggestion tool — Google suggest scraper — Übersuggest

Chow chow,
Kevin

Keyword research is one of the most important, valuable, and high return activities in the search marketing field. Ranking for the "right" keywords can make or break your website.

I created my own keyword database (34 million keywords). Right now I am compiling a database of 450,000 how-to keywords

howkeywords.com

You can preview it for free, the link is in my sig. Let me know if you find it more useful than adwords free tool.

market samurai doesnt that basically tell you what adwords tells you.. id ont get those kind of programs that cost £50 a day or whatever and they basically are nothing only google knows whats what and adwords is free....

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I use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, Google Trends for my keyword research (which both are free) and then for the Competition Analysis, I like to use uTube Analyzer Pro to see which Keywords that I should go after and setup YouTube Videos to rank on both Google & YouTube.

What do you use to gauge the competition?

Using Market Samurai.
It's a great tool.

Google Keyword tool is the best. No need to go for nay other. The tool is very good and also user friendly.

I prefer you to use Google keyword tools because it is very useful and gives many keywords which are related to your website with the compare of other website.

hey mrkidd85, Google Adword Tool is obviously best for keyword research and analysis. I usually use http://serp-checker.ezmlm.org/ and CuteRank, these are FREE and proven....thanks

the simple way is Google Keyword Tool

Since no one mentioned it I will, I use SEOBook keyword tool.

The good ol' Google Keyword Tool. I also love SECockpit.

Check the below URLs to know more about keyword research tools:

Free Keyword Suggestion, Research & Analysis Tools: Seo Book.com
https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeti...=KEYWORD_IDEAS
Keyword Research Tool - Advanced Web Ranking
Keyword Research, SEO Analysis & Link Building Tools | Wordtracker

I think no need to purchase any keyword research tool. The Google keyword tool is perfect for keyword research.

I usually use Google Keyword Tool then Traffic Travis- Free SEO Software | The Best SEO Management Tool | Traffic Travis. These tools helps me a lot in double checking for good keywords.

A few FREE tools I use to conduct keyword research PLUS competition analysis (which is an equally crucial but often-overlooked component to finding keywords that might actually make you some dough...)

Keyword Research

Google Adwords Keyword Tool (aka "GAKT!) - https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool

Competition Analysis

SEOQuake - seoquake.com (toolbar for your browser to check PR, # of pages indexed, etc.) - SEOquake - seo toolbar, plugin, seo extension for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera

OpenSiteExplorer - Open Site Explorer (to check backlink quantity + quality)

Majestic SEO - Majestic SEO : Backlink Checker & Site Explorer (same same as above...but different ;-) )

IWebTool - Backlink Checker - iWEBTOOL.com (yet another backlink checker)

BlueBacklinks - Blue Backlinks - The world's most powerful Backlink Checker (backlink checker)

**Why so many backlink checkers?

Because in many cases, no one tool shows ALL of a sites backlinks. So to prevent mis-assessing competitiveness, it's important to check a few of these.

MozBar - SEO Toolbar for Firefox & Chrome | Download the Free MozBar SEO Plugin | SEOmoz (This is another browser based tool to look at various SEO promotes from the good folks at Seomoz)

I've used these tools almost exclusively to do keyword research for over a year. There is ONE paid tool I really like but it's pricy and only makes sense if you're doing keyword research on a level of scale, like if your business was building niche sites for instance. Otherwise, these get the job done splendiferously.

Forget about tools and use your brain instead. There is nothing more powerful.

However, if you insist ... Stealth Keyword Competition Analyzer by Alex Safie if great for competition analysis

I think that the google keyword tool is very good and works good enough to get you targeted in the correct direction. Market Samurai is not very expensive and has some good extra features if you feel the need to get down and deep on a subject.
But for everyday use the google keyword tool should easily do the job and it is FREE.

Yep similar to others,
1. Google Keyword Tool
2. SEMRush/Quake
3. Keyword Spy

Of course, Google Adwords keyword tool, it is no. one today, it is based on Google data..

I am just make google keyword tools for research keyword.

Generally i use Google keyword tool but some times i use market samurai as well.

well 90% of us use Google keyword tool only its the best which shows local monthly and global searches.
thx

I heard others saying SEMRush is better, but from my experience, I always stick with Google keyword tool... and of course, I compare both results of SEMRush and Google keyword tools, both seems to be almost similar not such big differences in the results... [I mean the number of searches by 'results']

Ah keyword research, something I HATE but it must be done. Especially when your dealing with PPC marketing, you need thousands of keywords.
Personally start with Keyword tool, and then try out google trends. Bing intelligence is great too- it uses microsoft excel. And then offcourse you have market samurai, traffic travis and a bunch of other paid tools

I use:

1. Google keyword tool.
2. Market Samurai.
3. If I need to do a huge amount of keyword research I take a trial version of SECockpit
4. Free version of Traffic Travis.