Keyword Tools

Keyword tools  are extremely essential to a homebased website business.  Read about them in Keyword Suggestion Tools on this website. Keyword suggestion tools are the absolute first place to start with brainstorming an internet business idea of any kind.

Some free keyword tools are listed below. They don't offer as many features as paid versions, but they are a place to start and will be useful even after you work up to paid versions.

1. Pixlefast (Overture) is free.   Once you have gone to their website which has long been known as overture, you can just add it to your favorites. This tool is not as reliable as it once was, and no longer lists bid results, but it is free, and still can be useful, especially for doing initial research before you go to a paid service.
2. Good Keywords  is also free. It is a free windows software tool. You can download Good Keywords. 
3. NicheBot is another free online tool.  Go to NicheBot here and save it in your favorites.

Even though the above mentioned keyword tools are free, don't underestimate their value. At least one of these will become a mainstay for you, even when you find the need to also add more fully featured paid versions to your marketing arsenal.

More fully featured keyword tools

More fully featured Keyword Tools are very useful and if you haven't read the section on Keyword Suggestion Tools you should go there now to see how to use both free and paid keyword tools to get a lot more information for a limited amount of money. Using the free tools to do the groundwork and get your basic keyword list ready will greatly cut down on the time needed when using the more fully featured paid versions.

 Wordtracker is a very useful tool because unlike the free tools it tells you how much competition there is for a given keyword.  It will suggest related terms and help you find keywords with high popularity and low competition. It also allows you to save keywords to different lists.  Wordtracker is a paid service and you can pay for a day for just over seven dollars. They also offer weekly, monthly and yearly rates.  Wordtracker offers a free trial.  Wordtracker also offers a 75 page guide written with the help of SEO experts.  It is written in story form and is an easy read.  Whether you wish to use Wordtracker or other keyword tools, this guide will give you a lot of insight into the use and research of keywords and how consumers think and enter keywords for search.  Get the free keyword research guide here.

There are also desktop keyword tools that you can purchase. I use Keywords Analyzer. Using Keywords Analyzer can save a lot of time. I set it up for a search and just let it run while I am doing other things.

You can do simple or advanced searches, or searches for related terms.  Keywords Analyzer can be set to show how many competitors there are for a keyword and the ratio of supply to demand. You can see how many google and overture ads there are for a keyword, sort keyword lists, and import keyword lists.

Keyword lists can be exported in either a text or excel format. This software allows you to see how many google ads for a keyword, who is advertising, what words they are using, what the titles are and so much more. And it is not limited to google ads. There is information on other ad networks and many more features I haven't mentioned.

Keywords Analyzer is a very handy keyword tool, and it is especially useful and time saving for those creating sites whose main income will be derived from featuring google adsense. You will be able to see how many google ads are featured for a given keyword and gain immediate insight into whether it would be profitable or not.

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