Top 3 Free Keyword Suggestion Tools You Should Use

20 Aug, 2007  |  Written by Ramkarthik  |  under Blogging Tools

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Every blog needs traffic from Search Engines. Though you are famous, you can’t get many visitors or make a six figure income without Search Engines’ help. To get more visitors from search engine, you have to play with the keywords. You can’t rank well for a keyword with too much of competition unless you are a high authority blogger. First you have to target less searched or the long tail keywords. If you start ranking well for many long tail keywords, then you can get a good traffic from search engines. There are many keyword suggestion tools available. Not all of them can provide you the best results. Only certain Keyword Research tools will get you the best results. Here are the Top 3 Free Keyword Suggestion Tools you should use.

3. Overture:

Overture

Overture is a keyword suggestion tool that shows the results of number of searches made for a keyword the previous month. Though they say previous month, it has stopped showing stats after January. If you have any plans to know or target the search terms that were searched more in January 2007, then you can go for this tool. Or if you want a second opinion, then you can use this keyword suggestion tool.

2. Wordtracker Free Version:

wordtracker

Wordtracker is a good keyword suggestion tool which actually is a paid one. But now they have a free version. The free version is not bad. In fact I like it more than Overture. Wordtracker gets you the past month search results. The difference between Overture and Wordtracker is that, Overture shows the monthly searches for a particular keyword. Wordtracker shows the estimated searches made in a single day for a keyword. So don’t get confused if you see highly different numbers in both tools. Wordtracker shows daily searches made. I normally use this for my second opinion. This is easy and more fast than Overture.

1. Google AdWords:

Google AdWords

Google AdWords is by far the best keyword suggestion tool. This is my favorite keyword suggestion tool. You can get the search volume trends, keyword search volume, cost and ad positioning estimates & possible negative keywords. You also get to know the advertiser’s competition using which you can choose the less competitive keywords. Google AdWords provide the correct values since it is from Google. I use this tool to find the keyword PPC(Pay per Click) .

Though there are many keyword suggestion tools available, Google AdWords is the best in my opinion. Which Keyword Suggestion tools do you use? Which one do you think is the best?

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26 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. Ken Xu  |  August 21st, 2007 at 4:03 am #

    The forth keyword tool is at Keyword Explorer.
    It can show you the google result in quote too!
    :)

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  2. Ramkarthik  |  August 21st, 2007 at 4:06 am #

    Ken, Thanks for notifying me about the Keyword Suggestion tool. I haven’t tried it. But it seems to be a good one. Anyway you made a good point. Thanks. :)

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  3. Rishi  |  August 21st, 2007 at 6:08 am #

    My favorite has been Overture, I use it for my every ad move! :)

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  4. Ramkarthik  |  August 21st, 2007 at 6:32 am #

    Rishi, Overture was one of my favorites. But now it shows search results of January alone. :(

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  5. rony john  |  August 21st, 2007 at 8:57 am #

    Excellent post,Thank You
    i love word tracker

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  6. Ramkarthik  |  August 21st, 2007 at 8:59 am #

    Rony John, welcome and glad you liked the post. I also like Wordtracker. Very easy to use.

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  7. Tad  |  August 21st, 2007 at 10:21 am #

    Those are the best three indeed but you should scale your pics first before publishing them, this way it looks really messed up. Use IrfanView to resize theme easily and for free.

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  8. Ramkarthik  |  August 21st, 2007 at 10:24 am #

    Tad, Yeah I always think to use it. But when I finish writing my post, I always forget about the pictures. I too felt the same. I will surely change the look of the pictures using IrfanView from my next post. Thanks. And yes these are the best three :)

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  9. Shankar Ganesh  |  August 21st, 2007 at 12:52 pm #

    I love that Google Adwords Keywords tool :D

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  10. Ramkarthik  |  August 21st, 2007 at 12:54 pm #

    Shankar, I don’t know whether you remember, but I started using the Google AdWords when you told about it one or two months ago in the Google Talk. :) Thanks.

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  11. TipsoSaurus  |  August 21st, 2007 at 1:54 pm #

    all these tools are great! one needs to make use of these software for all the SEO work and I made a lot of use of these keywords tools :)

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  12. Ramkarthik  |  August 21st, 2007 at 1:56 pm #

    Tipsosaurus, You said it right. One has to use these tools. :)

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  13. Madhur Kapoor  |  August 21st, 2007 at 2:41 pm #

    I love Overture tool .

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  14. Ramkarthik  |  August 21st, 2007 at 3:22 pm #

    Madhur, Overture shows results of January 2007. Do you still love it? :)

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  16. jamy  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 2:59 am #

    Congrats, you are on the top page of stumbleupon.

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  17. Ramkarthik  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 3:48 am #

    Jamy, Thanks for notifying me about it. I never knew I was on top. And thanks for your stumble too.

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  18. Embroidery Designs Shop  |  August 26th, 2007 at 6:16 am #

    Great info thanks for sharing.

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  19. Ramkarthik  |  August 26th, 2007 at 6:51 am #

    Embroidery Design Shops, Glad you liked it.

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  21. Benedict Herold  |  August 27th, 2007 at 3:20 am #

    I’m not good at Keyword analysis, but eventually I have to start doing it. This would be a great help.!

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  22. Ramkarthik  |  August 27th, 2007 at 3:33 am #

    Benedict, You already have a great blog which receives huge traffic from Google without keyword analyzing. If you do it, then you will much more. :)

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  23. Benedict Herold  |  August 27th, 2007 at 3:38 am #

    Hee. Hee.. I should be thankful for google on that matter :-) when I started my site way back in 2005 the only bot respected my site was MSN bot :-) Now things are changed :-)

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  24. dEEPAK  |  August 27th, 2007 at 4:27 pm #

    ohh.. Donno how I missed this gr8 post…Didn’t know about these services.. I used to do this manually.. Tried to find good keywords for titles of posts..

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  25. Ramkarthik  |  August 27th, 2007 at 5:06 pm #

    Deepak, You didn’t know about these services? Good that you know now. :) Try using them and get more Google traffic.

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  26. Ramkarthik  |  August 27th, 2007 at 5:07 pm #

    Benedict, MSN bot actually found my blog very late. First it was Google and then Yahoo.

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