One source of keywords are on the search engine results pages (SERPs) themselves: You will often see links to related searches in the SERPs. You can also find keywords from your web site’s own traffic analytics program.
The following list of 14+ keyword research tools to help you understand what people are searching for, and, therefore, what people want. Lucky you!
- Google Insights for Search – Full-featured keyword research tool.
- Google Trends – Compare search terms side-by-side.
- Google HotTrends – The hottest search terms right now; updated hourly.
- Google Suggest – Provides related search terms in a drop down menu as you type. YouTube has the same feature for video-related search terms.
- Google AdWords Keyword Tool – Keyword research for commercial search terms that are bid upon for Google ads.
- Yahoo Search Marketing includes a keyword research tool.
- Microsoft AdCenter Labs has a whole host of keyword research tools, including a and search funnels tool, audience intelligence tools.
- KeywordDiscovery – Full featured, subscription-based keyword research tool. Free version. Keyword Directory – identify specific search terms that drive traffic to web sites within each industry category.
- WordTracker – Full featured, subscription-based keyword research tool. Free version.
- Compete – Full featured search analytics tool with limited free access.
- Keyword Country – Full featured, subscription-based keyword research tool.
- Facebook Lexicon – Keyword research tool for searching Facebook walls chatter.
- Technorati Keywords Charts – Chart the blog keyword mentions with an embeddable chart.
- Twist – Like Google Trends for Twitter.
- Spy – Spy tracks real-time keyword mentions in Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Blog Comments, Yahoo News, Blogs and Google Reader and allows you to subscribe via RSS.
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Very good collection David. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much David for compiling such a great list of tools. I’ve never tried any of them. Should be valuable to everyone.
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