Resources for Finding Keywords

In the world of pay per click advertising, the most valuable tools are quality keyword research tools. They are typically quite intuitive, effective, and many are free of charge. Two examples that we will examine are those from Google and Wordtracker.

Googles keyword research tool is very impressive and it can help you with many aspects of your research. https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal is the best way to find it. From the main screen, the simplest way to start is to choose the Site-Related Keywords tab. Simply enter in the url of your main page or a sub-page and Google will spider the text of your site, and generate a keyword list of the words that appear on those pages. This is convenient, but if your site wasnt well written, it might come up with words that are not relevant. Still, this is a great starting point for beginners.

The data you get from Google is very important to determine:

1) Includes relative keyword competition

2) The average monthly search for that keyword

3) Suggested bid price per keyword

4) The tendency towards people searching any given keyword

An additional research tool of value, but one which you'll have to pay for, is Wordtracker; you can find it at www.wordtracker.com. Comparing Google to Wordtracker, you'll notice that the former provides stats on monthly searches of words on Google, while the latter enumerates daily averages collected from a blend of all primary search engines.

You might wish to utilize "Wide Search", Wordtracker's impressive feature which finds words that might not immediately come to mind when you're thinking of keywords. Let's say, for example, you want to bid on cell phones. By choosing "Wide Search", you'll not only receive words like cellular phone or cellphone, but also cell phone manufacturers such as Motorola, Palm, Samsung, and Nokia. In addition, it provides other recommendations such as headset, blue tooth, and accessories. Using this extremely powerful tool, you can glean ideas that might not yet have occurred to you.

Wordtracker certainly helps you take your keywords in any direction that is available. You won't find the bid pricing details that you will from Google, but Wordtracker will show you every variation of the keyword that has been searched within the previous two months as well as the number of times each keyword has been searched using Metacrawler and Dogpile.

1) Wordtracker can tell you what searches were performed over the last 60 days

2) It will also tell you what keyword searchers were done for Metacrawler and Dogpile.

You'll likely agree that both of these keyword tools have individual strengths and purposes. Applying both of these tools in harmony will bring additional profitability and capability to your keyword research.

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