Top 3 free keyword research tools
If you’re not a hardcore keyword researcher and you have plenty of time to waste trawling through the free keyword researching tools then these are the top 3 keyword research tools I recommend for you. These are the tools I used before I went and bought my professional keyword researching tools and the tools I use now and again just to see if a market is worth entering.
Free Keyword Tracker
This tool comes from the creators of the very popular and very successful wordtracker tool and is basically a dumbed down version of wordtracker with less features and a less sophisticated results table. The free word tracker tool allows you to search for the top 100 keywords related to your primary keyword, displaying the estimated amount of daily searches that each keyword receives. However not always accurate it is a good estimate to suggest whether or not it is worth entering a certain market.
Overall this tool is definitely my top free keyword research tool to use, however I always question myself why people use this tool and don’t go for the free 7 day trial with wordtracker, surely a 7 day free wordtracker trial would beat using this free keyword tool for a week.
You can sign up for wordtrackers free registration trial which lasts 7 days here Free 7 day trial its definitely worth it.
Keyword Discovery Tool
Secondly I have keyword discoveries free keyword research tool much like wordtrackers free keyword tool it gives you a list of the top 100 keywords related to the primary keyword you have told the tool to search. However keyword discovery and wordtracker display slightly different results as well as this keyword discovery does not display the overall amount of searches for the primary keyword like wordtracker does. All in all this keyword tool is definitely worth using if you are wanting to stick to the free keyword tools, although I would advise using both wordtracker’s free keyword research tool and keyword discoveries.
Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Lastly I have Google AdWords keywords tool this tool has been developed on the same basis as the last two keyword research tools however the overall appearance and design is completely different. Google AdWords keyword tool allows many more options and features such as the advertiser competition trend which allows you to see how many advertisers are bidding on certain keywords, monthly search statistics and the average monthly search statistics calculated by a recent 12 month period. You have the option to add and delete keywords from your own personal keyword box. Not only this but Google AdWords keyword tool allows you to add and remove other important result tables such as search volume trends which shows the keyword fluctuation of the last 12 months in a small and tidy graph.
The image below shows you the Google AdWords keyword tool with all the data columns displayed.
Overall each one of these keyword tools has there benefits the appearance of each tool may differ slightly or extremely however none can be taken as an accurate measure of daily or monthly searches. The keyword tools may appear to be useful for briefly checking whether a certain market is popular or not however the keyword tools all stop there. To find the highest traffic lowest competitive keywords in a certain market you will need to spend hours upon hours trawling through many of the different free keyword tools however you would still not receive the results you would if you were to purchase a keyword tool.
In the next chapter i will be discussing why it is beneficial to purchase a keyword research tool rather than use the free keyword tools.
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