Keyword Research Tools
For many web professionals keyword research is one of the most important steps in planning a website or campaign. Here we review the top keyword research and analysis tools, and also list some free solutions.
Best Keyword Research Tools
The following services are the 3 main commercial keyword research tools available online. They each have their pros, cons and unique offerings. If you are serious about keyword research and analysis then one of these may be what you are looking for:
Trellian Keyword Discovery - Rumored to have the largest and best database around.
Features include KEI analysis, keyword density, spelling mistakes, seasonal trends and industry keywords.
Crawl for related terms and choose databases geographically or from specific sources such as Ebay, News or Thesaurus.
Price: Subscription service starts at $69.95 /month. Limited but free trial available.
Wordze - All the keyword tools you would expect, plus some neat features including: keyword difficulty analysis, historical keyword data, and keyword trends.
Keyword data supplied by: Niche/Portal sites, MetaCrawlers and ISPs -- making it a unique service.
Price: Subscriptions start at $45 /month. A day trial is $7.95.
Wordtracker - The old man of keyword research tools. Good solid service backed by years of experience and service.
Number of terms per search is limited to 1000, which may be frustrating for some webmasters. Search term info is pulled from MetaCrawler and Dogpile.
Price: Subscriptions start at $59/month. Offers a 7 day free trial.
If you are trying to choose, I recommend using the trial service for each to see which will work best for your individual needs.
There are other commercial solutions, but most of them are resellers using the above 3 companies databases.
More Keyword Research Tools
Not ready to purchase a subscription keyword tool? Here are some great free keyword research and analysis tools:
SEO Book Keyword Research Tool - Pulls results from Wordtracker. Export to CSV. Also see the same author's Keyword List Generator and Keyword List Cleaner tools.
Wordtracker Free Keyword Suggestion Tool - Enter a keyword to generate up to 100 related keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume.
Google Adwords Keyword Suggestion Tool - Recommends terms based on keywords or URL.
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