Free Keyword Research Tools

Free Keyword Research Tools

SEO is very easy to overuse and do even worse, if you for example start to do keyword stuffing or repeating the same words over and over again without good thought.

For regular content like blogs, people always like to argue about what you need to put in the first place – SEO or your readers. I am thinking you must do both – using simple but consistent and smart SEO and try to write as compelling article as possible to your readers.

You'll find also several non-SEO tools, but still which can be used seriously to optimize your site, help to choose right keywords and understand niche you are optimizing your site to! I suggest you at least visit all of these sites, so you pick your favorite tool because really all tools differentiate a little bit from each other.

Google AdWords: Keyword Tool -

Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. Select an option below to enter a few descriptive words or phrases, or type in your website's URL.
This tool gives you approximate keyword search volume statistics for Google search network and because of Google growing and dominating search network, you really can get pretty precise results.

Google Insights for Search

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. See examples of how you can use Google Insights for Search.

Google Trends

Use commas to compare multiple search terms – one more great product from Google allowing you to research and compare trends.
Google Trends provides insights into broad search patterns. Please keep in mind that several approximations are used when computing these results. All traffic statistics are estimates.

Free Keyword Suggestion Tool from Wordtracker

Wordtracker helps website owners and search engine marketers identify keywords and phrases that are relevant to their or their client's business and most likely to be used as queries by search engine visitors.
Use the free keyword suggestion tool from Wordtracker to help your website rank higher in the search engines. This tool can generate up to 100 related keyword phrases and show daily searches.

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool

This tool is only accessible to logged in members who have registered a free account. When we made this tool publicly accessible without registration some people were scraping it excessively, so we are now forced to require people to login to an account. Setting up a basic account is free and takes less than 1 minute.

Good Keywords v3

Now that the Google Keyword Tool has started providing search volume numbers, there is no need to look elsewhere for search volume statistics!

With the changing scenario, we have completely redesigned Good keywords!

The main component of Good Keywords v3 is the Keyword Database Manager for the Google Keyword Tool.

The Keyword Database tool in Good Keywords v3 is meant to help you get more out of your Google Keyword research! What is more, the software does not abuse Google's resources in anyway!

SEMRush

Free Search Term Suggestion Tool

For many years the Overture Keyword Suggestion was the only free, publicly available keyword research tool. Now, due to its recent outages we are pleased to offer an alternative.

Our keyword data is compiled and collected from a number of search engines to provide a far more accurate cross section of searches performed world wide. Simply type a seed keyword in the below field and have KeywordDiscovery generate the top 100 keywords for you.

Wordpot Free Keyword Tool

Try this free keyword research tool,which is quite usable, but creators limit your access trying to sell you paid version, generally you still can get pretty good overview.

Local Search Tools

Local search got a bit more popular & over the last year there was some pretty cool tools that made their way into the local search space.

Citation Building/Tracking

1.WhiteSpark Local Citation Finder


This powerful tool queries Google for citation sources (business name, address, and phone number mentions)  across deep Google search results and a list of competitors. You can even store your searches and check off citations as your build them.

2. SeOverflow Local Search Tool Kit



The Local Search Tool Kit dives into Places Page data to give you the exact citations that your competitors have, review counts, and a lot of other data for comparison across the top 7 listings. It’s a great way to see the citation list that has definitely been nabbed by Google as a trust source. This is also the bomb diggity for checking out competitors on a key phrase.

3. Customized Google Search



While not a tool you would expect, the search results give you a great citation source for tracking your own business data. You can see what citation sources have been indexed in Google (and which ones are the most authoritative) by doing a custom NAP search using Parenthesis and plus signs (p.s. Parenthesis and Plus Signs would make an awesome band name if anyone is looking).

Review Monitoring and Posting

4. MyReviewsPage.com



Yup…Monitor the reviews being left about your client/company on the major review engines. While Google can scrap most of them, you can see it before they do. Email updates and an easy user interface + a wordpress plug in. Doesn’t get much better for SMB reputation management thanks to Don Campbell.

5. Getlisted.org



David Mihm’s Getlisted.org has been the biggest tool in local search. The company has gone beyond just an application, and has become a conference series for training SMB’s across the US. Getlisted.org’s tool will walk a person through the entire listing process from claiming major profiles on Google, Bing, Yahoo, to monitoring reviews left about the company. This is a great one-stop-shop for a local business looking to get their feet wet in local search. Just make sure you hit up a Local University Event while your at it.

6. ReviewBiz



This tool from BrightLocal.com makes navigation to the multiple places for customers to leave reviews a breeze. Simply choose the review sites you want your drop down button to include and set it to display your business page. BrightLocal has a slew of tools coming out over the coming months and I have to say that they are going to be a company to watch in the local search tool space. Great ideas, and great design. A deadly combination.

GEO-Tagging Tools

7. Geo Sitemap and KML Generator



Keyhole Markup Language is the way to speak local to search engines and nothing speaks trusts like KML data. Couple that with a geo-sitemap pointing to the file and you have the ability to point search engines to your exact location and build some major trust/prominence. While coding this yourself would be a nightmare, this tool is a very easy 3 step process.

8. Paneramio



Geo-Tagged images will continue to be a growing user-generated field of local search and right now Google scraps Panoramio pictures for Places profiles. Hmmm…. I wonder why.

Google Places and Maps Tracking Tools

9. MapTracker



Yes. This is my own tool that tracks Map rankings up to 70 positions deep.  You can track generic keywords based on a location or location + generic words. The tool is built for search marketers who want to be able to get quick email reports of ranking movement daily, weekly, or monthly and the dashboard gives a quick overview of your average ranking position and how many keywords are in the top 7 listings. It is free, I am proud, and it is my first attempt into the world of tool building.

10. Authority Labs



Authority Labs is the best quick access, at a glace, SEO Keyword Rank Tracking system I know of. It works perfect for taking a daily look across a mass amount of domains. What A.L. does that many SEO tools need to do is add elements of universal search.

While AuthoirtyLabs doesn’t go to deep into local search rankings, they will display a map symbol on keywords that bring up a 7 pack, and also give you the local pin letter position you are in. While I would like to see this tool expand for more local search information, it is a great start and a great tool that I use a lot.

Credit: SEARCH ENGINE JOURNAL

SEO Add-ons for Mozilla Firefox

SEO Add-ons for Mozilla Firefox

1. SEO Doctor - Allows easy SEO diagnosis and problem solving for webmasters.
2. SeoQuake SEO Extension - Firefox SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization(SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet
3. SenSEO - Eextension checking the most important on-page-SEO-criteria and calculating a grade of how good your site fulfills these criteria.
4. Foxy SEO Tool - Foxy SEO Tool is a free, open source toolbar that provides quick and easy access to a multitude of search engine functions such as Google Site, Yahoo! Site Explorer, Live Fromlinks.
5. Also included are famous web traffic analysis sites such as Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, popular statistic aggregators like Quarkbase and WebSiteOutlook.
6. SEO Workers Web Page SEO Analysis Tool - General status, meta tags listing, meta tags analysis, the pages displayed within search engine results, keywords found in the anchor tags, keywords found in the image "alt" attribute text, keywords found on the page, URLs found in the page, headers returned from the server.
7. SEO Toolbar - SEO Toolbar shows PageRank, Alexa Rank, Popularity Index Rank for any website you visit on the one toolbar. Other SEO features include Search Engine view, server header view, Wayback Machine button and links to many SEO forums and websites.
8. SEO Professional Toolbar - SEO-related tools in one place. Display PageRank, S-Rank and the number of backlinks for visited pages. Stores the history of ranks for selected sites. Highlight words, links, view number of words and more.
9. SEOpen - Provides quick access to some web-based tools to help with search engine optimization. Quickly check inbound links, PageRank, http headers, and much more. Right-click on an open area of a web page, or use the included toolbar.
10. Swoosty SEO Tools - Google pagerank and Alexa ranking of each site you visit, and provides essential tools for SEO and analysis: indexed pages, backlinks, related links, keyword density analyser, nofollow highlighting, Alexa infos, WHOIS
11. KGen (Keyword Generator) - KGen retrieves every words of a page and lets you know how many time they appears and their weight in the page and their average position in the web page. It also allows you to see what keywords are strong on visited web pages for search engines.
12. SEO Stats - SEO Stats analysis for you the popularity of your website on the web. From Facebook to Twitter you'll know exactly how many links to your site are available through social networks and the number of backlinks and pages indexed in the major search engines.
13. SEO WooRank - SEO WooRank is en extension that provides a very deep SEO & Website Analysis report for any given website. When you click on the SEO WooRank icon, we will generate the SEO report for your website.
14. Affilorama SEO Toolbar - The Affilorama Firefox SEO Toolbar provides you with useful information and data to make the analysis of domains and pages super easy.
15. Niche Watch Tool - This wonderful SEO extension provides you the technical information required to beat your competitor websites in serps.It gives you backlinks number, indexed pages, keyword occurences on the page, page rank, all in anchor, all in title and all in text rank for both domain and webpage information.
16. Search Status - Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.
17. Money Quake - Moneyquake is a extension, which displays your real-time earning statistics from most popular advertisement systems (like AdSense etc)
18. SEO Info - Provides some information on the site you visit: indexed pages, backlinks, link report, pages reported on social network, pagerank, alexa rank, whois, and much more.

Do you use SEO add-ons for Firefox? What are your favorite ones? If you could only use one Firefox SEO tool, which one would it be?

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