Friday, January 2, 2009

5 Free Keyword Research Tools You Can't Be Without

By Don Lawson

One of the many chores an Internet Marketer must do is keyword research. This is the act of finding profitable words search engine users are typing into the search engines to find products and services. If you ever hope to make money online, you must become proficient at finding these money making words. Fortunately, there are free tools that you can use online.

A beginning Internet Marketer can save their self quite a bit of money by using one of the many free keyword tools available to them. Some of the paid versions can cost you fifty bucks or month or more. Others have a one time fee of several hundred dollars. Lucky for us frugal marketers, the free versions are good choices for finding those money making niches.

These five keyword tools are free to use and powerful enough for anyone to find those hot niches.

One tool you'll want to learn how to use is Google's keyword tool. This free keyword tool will show you the approximate number of searches in the past month and the avereage number of searches per month over the last year. You can also see the approximate per click rate advertisers are paying for your keyword.

SEO Book has a great keyword research tool that I use. In fact, out of these 5 tools, it's probably the best out there. This tool will show you many variables on each keyword. For example, it will show you the estimated clicks per day from all the major search engines, the Compete Rank, Google Trends and many more. You can really drill down to find those profitable keywords with this tool.

The next keyword tool has been around a long time. It's been a favorite of many marketers. A lot of them go on to buy the full version, but for the beginner, the free version is powerful enough. It's called WordTracker. WordTracker's free version allows users to sort and drill down through long tail keywords in order to find ones that will be profitable.

Another free software program you'll want to try is Good Keywords. This is a free program you download to your laptop or desktop. It has several powerful features. One of them is the ability to search for misspellings. Internet Marketers who use Pay Per Click programs to make money online have been using misspellings in their ad campaigns for a long time to bring in the big money.

WordPot is yet another free keyword research tool you'll want to look at. This is a web based program that helps people find keywords. It has several valuable features such as the ability to see synonyms, related words to the keyword you're using and even associated words that relate to the keyword you using. Some alternate keywords can bring in as much, if not more, traffic than the main keyword.

With a little practice, keyword research is a breeze. The more you practice, the better you'll become at finding those long tailed keywords and keyword phrases that will make you money. Now that you know where to get the tools for free, what are you waiting on? Get out and find you some profitable keywords and start building sites around them! - 15465

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