Free Online Keyword Tool Roundup
The Google Suggest Explorer keyword tool has been revamped a bit. It now shows you recent and popular searches on the home page, and you can drill down to get more extensive lists of the top queries and recent queries. It’s quite fascinating to see what people using the tool are searching for. (Warning, some of the searches are “not safe for work”… hey, it’s not me entering this stuff!)
The Suggest Explorer is just one tool you can use, of course. Here’s a list of other free online keyword research tools that I find useful. (Each link opens a new window.)
- AdWords Keyword Tool
- This is the same tool that AdWords advertisers have access to from their AdWords console. It lets you get keyword suggestions from Google and information about search volumes (but only in general terms) and pay-per-click bids (only estimates). You can also use it to generate lists of keywords based on a URL, which is useful for seeing what Google thinks your page is really about.
- Overture Keyword Selector Tool
- The granddaddy of them all, the one everyone mentions. Overture was a company that Yahoo! bought back when Yahoo! thought it could compete successfully against Google. It’s slow, unreliable, but it’s free so people put up with a lot of crap… It shows daily search volumes, normally you multiply by some factor (some say 4, some say 8, do your own testing) to get the “equivalent” Google search volume.
- Digital Point Solutions Keyword Suggestion Tool
- This one generates keywords suggestions from both Wordtracker and Overture and tells you estimated search volumes for each.
- Wordtracker Free Keyword Suggestion Tool
- Wordtracker is a subscription keyword service, but they offer a pared-down free tool that displays the top 100 related keywords and their estimated search volumes. If you want more data, you’ll need to subscribe to their service.
- NicheBOT Classic
- NicheBOT Classic uses Wordtracker data but displays it quite nicely and provides estimated search volumes for the different search engines.
Bookmark this page, as I’ll keep adding to the list.
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