http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

Keyword Discovery :: Keyword Discovery Advanced keyword research tool and search term suggestion tool compiles keyword search statistics from all the major search engines world wide, to create the most powerful Keyword Research tool.
http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/

Wordze :: King Of Keywords : The Premier Keyword Research Tool For Internet Marketing Research. Wordze’s keyword research tools are a premiere collection of keyword services that allow you to quickly find new keywords to target and analyze search competitiveness.
http://www.wordze.com

SEMRush :: SEMRush – service for competitors research, shows Google organic and AdWords keywords for any site or domain. SEMRush.com was designed by the developers of SeoDigger and SeoQuake to satisfy your needs in advanced SEM and keywords research. We analyze 40 million keywords for 20 million domains.
http://www.semrush.com

KeywordElite :: The NEW Generation of money making keyword tools! To put it bluntly, Keyword Elite 2.0 blows away every single tool on the market… If you’re looking for high profit, low competition niches, this will show you them… fast. Anyone not using this tool is allowing their competitors to get a distinct tactical advantage over them… And in the modern marketing world, that’s deadly..
http://www.keywordelite.com/

KeywordSpy :: Spy On Your Competitors! Profit From Their Success. Uncover millions of highly profitable SEO / PPC Ad copies & keywords your competitors wish you never know. Start your FREE Keyword Research Right Now!
http://www.keywordspy.com

Micro Niche Finder :: Powerful New Software Tool Uncovers Hot Untapped Niche Markets that Have Been Completely Overlooked by the Masses and Allows You To Swoop in and Absolutely Dominate these Niche Markets in Google!
http://www.micronichefinder.com

KeyCompete | Download Competitors Keywords and Adwords :: Discover the best keywords for your search engine marketing campaigns. KeyCompete is an online keyword research tool that identifies the keywords your competitors are using in their pay-per-click campaigns. KeyCompete also identifies the competition that is bidding on your keywords.
http://www.keycompete.com

Wordtracker FREE Keyword Tool :: Free keyword suggestion tool for SEO, Adwords & blogging from Wordtracker – the leading keyword research tool. Enter a starting keyword to generate up to 100 related keywords.
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

Wordtracker Keyword Tool :: Wordtracker’s leading-edge research tool gives you the keywords you need to rise above your competitors in search engine rankings. Even better, we also show you how keyword research can help you discover untapped market niches, get inspiration for new products, & create compelling content that distinguishes your site from the pack.
http://labs.wordtracker.com/dashboard/

Wordtracker – Keyword Questions :: Keyword Questions keyword research tool from Wordtracker – the leading keyword research tool. People often type questions into search engines. Now you can find these questions, answer them and get some great search traffic. You’ll be targeting long tail keywords and providing content that readers want to read and link to.
http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions

Google Adwords: Keyword Tool ::Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. Select an option below to enter a few descriptive words or phrases, or type in your website’s URL.
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Google Search-based keyword tool :: The Search-based Keyword Tool provides keyword ideas: * Based on actual Google search queries, Matched to specific pages of your website with your ad and search share, New to your Adwords account (typically excluding keywords matching those already in your account)
http://www.google.com/sktool/

Google Insights for Search :: With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/

Google Trends :: With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.
http://www.google.com/trends

Google Hot Trends :: With Hot Trends, you can see a snapshot of what’s on the public’s collective mind by viewing the fastest-rising searches for different points of time. You can see a list of today’s top 40 fastest-rising search queries in the U.S. You can also select a recent date in history to see what the top rising searches were and what the search activity looked like over the course of that day. We update Hot Trends hourly.
http://www.google.com/trends

Yahoo! Buzz Index :: Today’s Top 20 Overall Searches. A subject’s buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/overall/

Youtube Keyword Suggestion Tool :: Use the Youtube Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. Select an option to enter a few descriptive words or phrases, or type in a YouTube video’s id (or watch page url).
https://ads.youtube.com/keyword_tool

WebConfs Keyword-Rich Domain Suggestion Tool :: Having a KEYWORD-RICH domain name is an important factor of Search Engine Optimization. Choosing the right domain could BOOST your search engine rankings. This tool will suggest keyword rich domain names.
http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-rich-domain-suggestions.php

DigitalPoint Free Keyword Suggestion Tool :: This is a handy little tool will show you the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often.
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

NicheBot :: Pulls from multiple sources, great for quick research across several different analyzers
http://www.nichebot.com/

SpyFu :: Spy on your online competitors. Download competitors keywords and adwords.
http://www.spyfu.com/

Microsoft adCenter Labs Keyword Research :: http://adlab.msn.com/

MSN Keyword Forecast :: This tool forecasts the impression count and predicts demographic distributions of keywords. Before launching your SEO or SEM campaign, get forecasts of search volume and demographic predictions for your selected keywords.
http://adlab.msn.com/Keyword-Forecast/

MSN Entity Association Graph :: This tool provides a graphic view of the associations between entities by mining the co-occurrences of entities in search queries or search sessions. Such associations will be useful when creating query suggestions or analyzing user search patterns.
http://adlab.msn.com/Vnext/Entity-Association-Graph/

MSN Keyword Group Detection :: Based on keywords that a user enters, this tool helps to find the groups of words from the pool of online queries that are related or similar to the keywords entered by the user. This keyword research tool also detects common misspellings of keywords entered, which can help merchants to include commonly misspelled keywords when bidding for lists of keywords.
http://adlab.msn.com/Keyword-Group-Detection/

MSN Keyword Mutation Detection :: This tool displays common misspellings or alternative spellings of keywords that a user enters that are frequently found in search query logs. The process of finding mutations is based on the technology found in keyword group detection.
http://adlab.msn.com/Keyword-Mutation-Detection/

MSN Search Funnels :: Customers often perform searches by typing related keywords in specific sequences. This tool helps in visualizing and analyzing the customers’ search sequences. For example, you can learn how many people search for BMW and then search for Mercedes Benz, Audi, and other automobiles.
http://adlab.msn.com/Search-Funnels/

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Think of the right keywords as the Open Sesame! of the Internet. Find the exactly right words or phrases, and presto! hoards of traffic will be pulling up to your front door. But if your keywords are too general or too over-used, the possibility of visitors actually making it all the way to your site – or of seeing any real profits from the visitors that do arrive – decreases dramatically.

Your keywords serve as the foundation of your marketing
strategy. If they are not chosen with great precision, no
matter how aggressive your marketing campaign may be, the
right people may never get the chance to find out about it.
So your first step in plotting your strategy is to gather
and evaluate keywords and phrases.

You probably think you already know EXACTLY the right words
for your search phrases. Unfortunately, if you haven’t
followed certain specific steps, you are probably WRONG.
It’s hard to be objective when you are right in the center
of your business network, which is the reason that you may
not be able to choose the most efficient keywords from the
inside. You need to be able to think like your customers.
And since you are a business owner and not the consumer,
your best bet is to go directly to the source.

Instead of plunging in and scribbling down a list of
potential search words and phrases yourself, ask for words
from as many potential customers as you can. You will most
likely find out that your understanding of your business
and your customers’ understanding is significantly
different.

The consumer is an invaluable resource. You will find the
words you accumulate from them are words and phrases you
probably never would have considered from deep inside the
trenches of your business.

Only after you have gathered as many words and phrases from
outside resources should you add your own keyword to the
list. Once you have this list in hand, you are ready for
the next step: evaluation.

The aim of evaluation is to narrow down your list to a
small number of words and phrases that will direct the
highest number of quality visitors to your website. By
“quality visitors” I mean those consumers who are most
likely to make a purchase rather than just cruise around
your site and take off for greener pastures. In evaluating
the effectiveness of keywords, bear in mind three elements:
popularity, specificity, and motivation.

Popularity is the easiest to evaluate because it is an
objective quality. The more popular your keyword is, the
more likely the chances are that it will be typed into a
search engine which will then bring up your URL.

You can now purchase software that will rate the popularity
of keywords and phrases by giving words a number rating
based on real search engine activity. Software such as
WordTracker will even suggest variations of your words and
phrases. The higher the number this software assigns to a
given keyword, the more traffic you can logically expect to
be directed to your site. The only fallacy with this
concept is the more popular the keyword is, the greater the
search engine position you will need to obtain. If you are
down at the bottom of the search results, the consumer will
probably never scroll down to find you.

Popularity isn’t enough to declare a keyword a good choice.
You must move on to the next criteria, which is
specificity. The more specific your keyword is, the greater
the likelihood that the consumer who is ready to purchase
your goods or services will find you.

Let’s look at a hypothetical example. Imagine that you have
obtained popularity rankings for the keyword “automobile
companies.” However, you company specializes in bodywork
only. The keyword “automobile body shops” would rank lower
on the popularity scale than “automobile companies,” but it
would nevertheless serve you much better. Instead of
getting a slew of people interested in everything from
buying a car to changing their oil filters, you will get
only those consumers with trashed front ends or crumpled
fenders being directed to your site. In other words,
consumers ready to buy your services are the ones who will
immediately find you. Not only that, but the greater the
specificity of your keyword is, the less competition you
will face.

The third factor is consumer motivation. Once again, this
requires putting yourself inside the mind of the customer
rather than the seller to figure out what motivation
prompts a person looking for a service or product to type
in a particular word or phrase. Let’s look at another
example, such as a consumer who is searching for a job as
an IT manager in a new city. If you have to choose between
“Seattle job listings” and “Seattle IT recruiters” which do
you think will benefit the consumer more? If you were
looking for this type of specific job, which keyword would
you type in? The second one, of course! Using the second
keyword targets people who have decided on their career,
have the necessary experience, and are ready to enlist you
as their recruiter, rather than someone just out of school
who is casually trying to figure out what to do with his or
her life in between beer parties. You want to find people
who are ready to act or make a purchase, and this requires
subtle tinkering of your keywords until your find the most
specific and directly targeted phrases to bring the most
motivated traffic to you site.

Once you have chosen your keywords, your work is not done.
You must continually evaluate performance across a variety
of search engines, bearing in mind that times and trends
change, as does popular lingo. You cannot rely on your log
traffic analysis alone because it will not tell you how
many of your visitors actually made a purchase.

Luckily, some new tools have been invented to help you
judge the effectiveness of your keywords in individual
search engines. There is now software available that
analyzes consumer behavior in relation to consumer traffic.
This allows you to discern which keywords are bringing you
the most valuable customers.

This is an essential concept: numbers alone do not make a
good keyword; profits per visitor do. You need to find
keywords that direct consumers to your site who actually
buy your product, fill out your forms, or download your
product. This is the most important factor in evaluating
the efficacy of a keyword or phrase, and should be the
sword you wield when discarding and replacing ineffective
or inefficient keywords with keywords that bring in better
profits.

Ongoing analysis of tested keywords is the formula for
search engine success. This may sound like a lot of work -
and it is! But the amount of informed effort you put into
your keyword campaign is what will ultimately generate your
business’ rewards.

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