30 Keyword Tools to Use for Your Website
Published August 2nd, 2007 in Marketing, SEOPart of having a successful website or blog is targeting the right keywords and phrases. This sounds like it would be an easy task, but with endless possible combinations of words and phrases it can be quite difficult to find keywords that will generate traffic from search engines without putting you in competition with too many other sites.
Fortunately there are a number of tools available online (some free, some not) that can help with the process. I’ve included some basic information about 30 of these tools in this article. Some of these tools are designed specifically for creating and managing pay-per-click campaigns, but they can also be helpful if you’re just trying to optimize your site.
Free Keyword Tools
Keyword Density
Cost: Free
Type in a URL and you’ll see what phrases are used most commonly throughout the page. You have the choice of including meta tags, alt tags, and the title, as well as the choice of 1, 2, or 3 word phrases.
Keyword Research Tool from Apogee Web Consulting
Cost: Free
This tool allows you to see what words and phrases are used in your competitor’s keyword meta tag.
SEO Book’s Keyword Suggestion Tool
Cost: Free
One of the more useful and unique free tools, SEO Book’s Keyword Suggestion Tool not only gives you related words and phrases, but it also shows the search volume and provides links to the results from other keyword tools like Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery. The links help you to save time by not needing to visit a lot of different sites and perform repeated searches.
SEO Book’s Keyword List Generator
Cost: Free
Are you having trouble coming up with a list of keywords for a PPC campaign? Type in your URL and a few keywords and this tool will generate a list for you.
SEO Book’s Keyword Misspelling Generator
Cost: Free
Sometimes searchers will spell words incorrectly. You can benefit from knowing common misspellings and using them in your PPC campaigns. This tool eliminates the need for you to figure out possible misspellings. Type in a word or phrase and you will get a list of possible mistakes.
Yooter Keyword Suggestion Tool
Cost: Free
Find search volume and related phrases with this free tool. It also allows you to export the results into a spreadsheet program (like Excel) via a .CSV file. Requires registration.
McDar Keyword Analysis Tool
Cost: Free
When you enter your URL and a keyword or phrase this tool will provide information on your page and compare it to the top 10 ranked sites by Google for the word or phrase that was entered. The data includes total pages indexed, links and PageRank.
iBusiness Promoter
Cost: Free
IBP is a free tool that shows you search volume and the level of competition for keywords. It also shows you which keywords your competitors are using. Requires download.
Overture’s Keyword Selector Tool
Cost: Free
One of the most frequently used free keyword tools. Enter a word or phrase and Overture will show you related phrases and search volume for each.
Google’s Keywords Tool
Cost: Free
A fairly simple and valuable tool that shows related keywords, search volume, and levels of competition. Provides a large number of suggestions based on pages that are ranking well in Google for the phrase that is entered.
Keyword Suggestion Tool from Wordtracker
Cost: Free
Enter a keyword of phrase and get up to 100 suggestions as well as an estimate of their daily search volume.
Bookmarklet from SEOproToolz
Cost: Free
With the bookmarklet you will drag a link to your browser’s toolbar and the tool will be usable. It will analyze any page that you are visiting to generate related keywords with prices for Google AdWords.
Meta Tag and Keyword Analyzer from Submit Express
Cost: Free
Enter a URL and the tool will show you the meta tags of the page, keyword density, load time, file size, and links found on the page.
Good Keywords
Cost: Free
Includes keyword suggestions, misspelling suggestions, phrase builder and more. One of the more simple programs that still includes multiple tools. Requires download.
Keyword Research Tool from Webmaster Toolkit
Cost: Free
A simple free tool that will help you to find related keywords to a specific word or phrase. It will analyze top-ranked pages in a search engine that you select and report on words and phrases used by those sites.
Keyword Tools with a One-Time Cost
Rapid Keyword
Cost: $69.99 (one-time payment)
Rapid Keyword helps you to find the right keywords by showing results from both Google and Overture’s suggestion tools, as well as by providing possible misspellings. You can analyze the competition by seeing how many competitors are on the major PPC programs for particular words or phrases. Several keyword management tools are included. Offers a one-day free trial and a 60-day money back guarantee.
The Permutator
Cost: $49.99 (one-time payment)
The Permutator includes a keyword suggestions tool as well as various tools to help create and manage lists of keywords. It also includes a typo tool and an ROI calculator. A trial version is available.
Keywords Analyzer
Cost: $97
One of the more popular keyword tools, it will help you find search phrases that have low levels of competition for PPC ad campaigns. Keywords Analyzer also helps you to analyze your competition and manage PPC campaigns.
Web CEO
Cost: There is a free version as well as $189 and $389 versions.
Web CEO is SEO software that includes a keyword tool. The keyword tool provides keyword suggestions, search volume, competing sites, and much more. Requires download.
The Dowser
Cost: There are several tools that range from free to $297
You can research and manage keywords with the free tool, or purchase tools for keyword harvesting, misspellings, and more.
Keyword Elite
Cost: $167
With Keyword Elite you will be able to see the keywords that your competitors are bidding on. You’ll also be able to do keyword list generation and management.
Keyword Cruncher
Cost: $37
A keyword analysis tool that works with Wordtracker. With Keyword Cruncher you can import data from Wordtracker and manipulate and analyze the data. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Keyword Tools with On-Going Costs
Wordtracker
Cost: $299 for a 1-year subscription (weekly and monthly options also available)
One of the leader keyword tools, Wordtracker will help you to find the right keywords and other phrases in which they are commonly used. There is an option for a free trial.
Marketo
Cost: Standard version is $49 per user (the first user per organization is free) plus 7.9% of the amount spent on ads managed by Marketo
Marketo is a complete PPC management program. It features keyword tools, bid management and optimization, and testing tools. There is an option for a 30-day free trial.
Keyword Discovery
Cost: $599
Compiles statistics from over 180 search engines. Features include keyword research, suggestions, misspellings, seasonal search trends, and more.
Adgooroo
Cost: Starts at $99 per month
Adgooroo will show you the search phrases that are generating most of the traffic for your competitors. It’s tools help you to identify more specific phrases that will bring more traffic. There is an option for a 10-day free trial.
NicheBot
Cost: $9.97 – $19.97 per month
NicheBot provides a variety of keyword research tools as well as keyword list management tools. It also includes an affiliate product finder.
SEOmoz Keyword Difficulty Tool
Cost: The tool is limited to premium members, which currently costs $49.00 per month
This tool is used to analyze the competitive landscape that exists for particular search phrases. It is intended to show how difficult it will be to achieve high rankings for specific terms.
HitTail
Cost: Basic version is free, HitTail Plus is $9.95 per month
HitTail shows you real time statistics on what keywords visitors are using to find your website. Widgets are available for Blogger, TypePad, SquareSpace and WordPress.
Wordze
Cost: $35 per month
Wordze offers tools such as keyword research, historical keyword data, analysis of competitors, importing keywords, managing projects and more.
75 Responses to “30 Keyword Tools to Use for Your Website”
Excellent resource here – many thanks for sharing.
Am bookmarking this one now
Aaron,
Thanks for visiting and for bookmarking!
Thanks for including Marketo! Just one small correction: We include one user for free, so the $49 / user charge only applies if you have multiple users in your organization.
Jon,
Sorry for the mistake. I’ve made a correction. Thanks for visiting!
Thanks for including my firm’s free keyword research tool in your list.
First of all, thanks for including my little bookmarklet in this great resource
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I’ve noticed though that there is a mistake in the price for Keyword Discovery – you say it’s $49.95 per year, whereas it is in fact either $599 per year or $69 per month.
Marcin,
Thanks, I made the change. Thanks also for the link back to this post.
Thanks for the great links. I am just beginning to learn about SEO and all of the info out there is overwhelming.
Great list!
Thanks a lot for this work!
Just a little question: which of these tools you’re using for your blog?
Solid list of research – thanks for taking the time to put these together. I’ve seen most, but there’s just so much information, that I forget. Just bookmarked
Profitable eBay,
I think I’ve tried all of the free tools. Recently I’ve used the Overture and Google tools.
Charleston,
Thanks for bookmarking! I’m glad there is some stuff here that you can use.
Try this Easy and powerful keyword search tool
http://keywordcountry.com
Thats a nice list of stuff to do, I was looking for something like this for a long time now. But the happiness of finding a site you know about in the serps is a nice feeling
Cool. I’m glad you were able to find this through a search.
I use google trends all the time http://www.google.com/trends
This can display search queries based on a 3 year time frame and you can see if the term is gaining in popularity or decreasing. You can also find if a term has certain seasonal popularity like fitness equipment or gardening.
Brady,
You’re right, it’s a good tool. Thanks for the addition.
I’ve spent a lot of money on keyword research tools, and so recently I put together an affiliate website which compares the tools.
I interviewed several of the designers of the keyword tools in order to get accurate information, along with my own research:
http://www.keywordresearching.com/compare.php
Thanks.
Joshua,
Looks goo. Thanks for sharing.
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17 Keyword Tools
Free Keyword Tools
Did you try to compare results across various tools? I’m a little bit puzzled because I’ve just subscribed with WordZe and for certain searches the results differ significantly from the ones obtained with Wordtracker’s free version.
Nice list. I’m currently developing my own keyword tool, and have looked at many of those listed above for ideas.
Hopefully my own tool will make it onto the list one day!
i think best one is Google’s Keywords Tool . forever google!
Here is a free keyword tool:
KWAN
It searches the webpage and gets 100% revelant kwywords.
I don’t understand how you can say IBP is free … its not free … I think its ok! 9 out of 10 times the emails it gets for you are bad emails. They are all suggestions. It chews up the resources like there is no tomorrow and then you have to try to do it all over again. I think its ridiculous. Why do I need to feed it the competitor list? It should go and get the top 100 or 200 competitors and get its backlinks. There are other tools out there that are much much faster!
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/?seed=shemale&adult_filter=adult_only&suggest=Hit+Me
no registration)))
It’s best service for me.
The excellent list. Thanx
Keyword Elite is again another nice and useful IM product from Brad Callen…it is easy and simple to use compared with other IM products..^^
Thanks for featuring this on your site..^^
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Thanks for including my firm’s free keyword research tool in your list.
Thanks for these valuable links to keyword related sites. It just goes to show you that you do not need to spend hundreds of dollars on software packages to obtain some decent results although I guess that suites of these types of softwares are always worthi investing in saving time along the way…
thanks !! very helpful post!
I like the info here. keep it up!
yes, keyword plays a major role in SEO for that we require keyword tools by which we can good results to our website.
emm…quite a lot of information…..a bit puzzled to be honest. thanks. gotta check some of your links right away!
just one mini thought of mine : use Google’s top ten results and your logic.
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Excellent article! I’ve recently started writing about SEO in my blog, and I know how crucial keyword research to the whole process.
It’s great that you have included Keyword Elite in your list of recommended keyword research tools. They now have an updated version. You can see a review of it in my blog here: http://seo-keywords-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/09/keyword-elite-20-for-keyword-research.html
Cheers,
Katherine
Wow what a fantastic ressource! Great job and I will be bookmarking this sucker.
I know this is a pretty old list of resources now for keyword generation for SEO, but just thought I’d give a shout to SEOmoz, who have great tools for SEO in general, including keyword generation. The Pro membership ones are amazing.
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