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1. AdWords Keyword Tool

You enter some of your keywords and the tool gives you a list of keyword suggestions accompanied by traffic and competition stats for each search phrase. The tool is originally designed for Pay-Per-Click advertisers but it works just as well for organic SEO research.

2. Google Search-Based Keyword Tool

An SEO tool from Google that suggests keywords on the basis of what users are actually searching for on Google. There are two ways you can use this tool: you can feed in seed keywords just like with AdWords Keyword tool and get keyword ideas derived from them, or you can specify your website URL and the tool will locate the keywords in your texts and make keyword suggestions that it thinks are relevant to your niche.

3. Keyword Discovery

Aggregates search traffic statistics for all major search engines and generates new keywords based on this data. The tool offers advanced keyword research features such as keyword effectiveness calculator, competition research and Pay-Per-Click bids evaluation.

4. Wordtracker

Another popular SEO keyword tool that works similar to Keyword Discovery and AdWords Keyword tool, the difference being that Wordtracker uses metasearch engines, such as Dogpile, to evaluate the number of searches for the keywords and keyword suggestions. Metasearch engines are special search portals where each user query is rendered in several search engines e.g. Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask and others, and the search results from all these search engines are compiled into one list.

5. Google Suggest

This is not strictly a keyword research tool but it’s still a great way to discover new search terms you are probably missing out on. When you go to Google and search for something you’ll see a toolbar with keyword suggestions that appears as soon as you start typing in your search query into the search box. That’s Google Suggest tool. The keyword suggestions you get there are based on search queries made by real users which makes this information a gold mine for any online marketer.

Bear in mind that when you’re signed into your Gmail or another Google service account the general keyword suggestions will be mixing with the search queries that you made before which hold little value for you.

Overall using Google search is a bit tricky and even unhandy because you can’t copy the suggestions and need to put them down on paper first, but you can make use of it in a much more effective way with the help of other SEO tools, like Rank Tracker (described below).

6. Yahoo! Search Assist

A keyword tool from Yahoo! that functions just the way Google suggest does. If you target Yahoo! search traffic this tool should certainly be in your arsenal, because the search trends differ on the two search engines.

7. Ask TypeAhead Search Suggestions

Same as Yahoo! Search Assist and Google Suggest only by Ask.

8. Rank Tracker

This powerful SEO tool gives you access to all of the above listed keyword research tools. You can generate keyword suggestions using any of the tools on the list, plus make use of additional keyword research mechanisms such as word mixer, popular misspellings, etc. The tool calculates KEI (Keyword efficiency index) that tells you how popular each keyword is and how tough it is to get a high ranking for it. You can choose different sources to get search traffic data from: Google AdWords Keyword Tool, Wordtracker, etc. By comparing the stats aggregated from multiple sources you can get the best idea of how many people actually search for each keyword.

Besides being a powerful keyword research tool Rank Tracker is also an advanced rankings checker which allows you to research new keywords and monitor your website’s positions for them without having to switch back and forth between various applications.

These are some of the most popular and most effective SEO tools out there for keyword research. The data you can get from each of them gives you unlimited marketing potential. When used right this insight will bring you massive exposure for your website and roof-breaking sales. And when combined together the effect from these keyword research SEO tools magnifies ten-fold. So go get them, make them working towards your bottomline and I wish you good luck with your business!

By: Richard Gilmore

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There are a number of online tools that I use in my SEO efforts.  Some of these tools are free and some cost money. I suppose you could do your SEO work without most of these tools, but who would want to?  They make life easier, and they make your SEO efforts more efficient and effective.

A good keyword tool is critically important

I have to tell you, as far as I am concerned the single most important tool in your tool kit is a keyword tool.  As I’ve said before, if your keyword phrases are not ever searched for then your search engine optimization efforts are in vain.  First you need to find out what people are searching for in regards to your topic, and then do your optimization.

There are a lot of keyword tools out there if you do a little searching. Some are free, but I use WordTracker which costs me about $60 for a month subscription. It’s an online tool, and you just log in and use it whenever you need it.  I usually end up subscribing for a month every few months.  The thing is, it is so valuable that it would be worth way more than 100 times that price.  Thank god for competition.

With WordTracker you can find out how many times a keyword phrase is searched for, how many sites are competing with you for that keyword phrase, and how many times your search engine listing would be seen per day if you were on the 1st page of the search engine results page.  It also finds keyword phrases for you in various ways.  Once you subscribe you have a wealth of information available as to how to effectively use the tool.

Google webmaster tools are invaluable in achieving a high ranking on Google.

I am a firm believer in using Google’s webmaster tools.  For crying out loud, if Google is willing to tell you what errors and problems your site has, then you should listen!  The webmaster tools tell you things like which keywords it sees in your sites content, what it sees in the link text on other sites that point to yours, which of your pages are being pointed to from other sites, and more. The tools tell you when you have duplicate title tags, not enough words in your meta description and when the meta description is duplicated on more than one page.

You can submit a sitemap to make sure all of your pages get spidered.  Sitemaps can be very simple, consisting of just a list of URLs in your site.  Google spiders your sitemap within hours of it being submitted, and it then tells you if there are any errors. It’s simply amazing.

Google Analytics is another good SEO tool

Google analytics can provide you with a wealth of information about your visitors, where they come from, and the paths through your site they take, the entry and exit pages and tons more valuable information. And it’s free. You can see at a glance your visitor bounce rate, number of visits over time, page views, and keyword phrases used to find you and so much more that I don’t have the space here to go into details.  It’s very easy to check out, so check it out.

Link Popularity Checking Tool

Marketleap has a great little tool for checking your link popularity; marketleap.com. This tool lets you measure your website’s online awareness and overall visibility. This SEO tool helps website owners find out who is linking to their site and gives a useful benchmarking report to quickly show where you stand in comparison to competitors and other major online players. You can also track your links over time by checking every so often.  The site keeps records; some of mine now go back 4 years! 

The Compete tool helps you compete!

I’ll conclude with a wonderful tool I use to find out the approximate traffic that any particular web site has; compete.com. You put in the URL of the site you are interested in and the tool gives you a number of statistics including the approximate traffic that the site receives. You can compare up to 5 URLs at a time and the tool gives you both numbers and graphs to view. Obviously the more traffic a site gets the more accurate the estimate.  I’ve tried several and compete gives me the most accurate figures of the ones I’ve tried.

I like to see what kind of traffic a site gets when I am considering trading links and when targeting specific keyword phrases I like to scope out the competition to see if it’s worth doing.

There are many more tools that you can find online, but this gives you a very good start, and possible all you really need to perform expert professional SEO on your webpages.

By: William Lund

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1. ResellerGo

This is a great SEO tool that allows you to submit your site to over 2,000 directories within no time. You can try this great SEO tool free of charge by joining and selecting the “Free Plan.” It also offers upgraded plans with added benefits.

2. We Build Web Pages

With the help of this SEO tool, you can compare your site against the top 10 sites listed in Google for any particular keyword. All you have to do is enter your keyword and it will start comparing 9 different metrics for the top 10 rankings.

3. Zippy

This SEO tool queries all the major engines and returns results for META search in a format most suitable for webmasters.

4. URL Trends

This tool allows you to check any of the information about all of the selected URLs; whether it is the Page Rank of that site or any other thing they monitor.

5. NUAH

It is another great SEO tool. It crawls through your entire site; see how many pages you have, their respective Page Ranks, keywords and descriptions. It also offers a sitemap generator for both Google and Yahoo.

6. Widexl

This tool offers the following free SEO tools:

• Link Popularity

• Search Engine Saturation

• Meta Tag Analyzer

• Password Generator

• Geo Tracker

7. iWebTool

iWebTool has a lot of SEO tools including back links and Page Rank predictor, Google Banned Checker, Link Popularity, Keyword Suggestion etc.

8. Ezer

This tool allows you to check your Page Rank across all the data centers.

9.Link Harvester

This tool is probably the most advanced link analysis tool available in the market. It can:

• Find every single site that is linking to you within no time

• Reports the total number of pages of your web site that are indexed

• Reports the total number of links pointing to any specific page

• Reports the total number of inbound links, home page links, and deep link ratio

• And a lot more.

10. HitTail

This SEO tool exposes the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results within no time. It presents these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site.

The above tools will help you to rank high on the search engines, try everyone of them and look for the once that fulfill your website needs, these are just tools, but the potential of having success in this field is you and the new ideas to get the attention of your visitors. And the most important thing to succeed in your campaign is the information that your site has which will make your visitor come back again and again.

By: Romio Abboud

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