Keyword Research Tools for Bloggers

To keep your content updated and your blog running smoothly, you will need to research properly. This is a major key to making money from your blog. It’s very important that you see where your blog will fit in the already growing and expanding market. Proper market research can help you do this.
   




Questions to ask:

• Who am I and what makes my blog unique?
• What special skills or products can I sell?
• What other blogs are being published in this area?
• What am I passionate about?

These questions will help you find your niche market. You need to have a unique selling point. As long as you have this, it doesn’t matter what your niche market is.

There are many great places you can do research for your blog. Just look at the world around you, your family and friends, television, the news and other places to find inspiration and ideas. Then of course, there is the internet. Having the proper keywords related to your topic is also important to having a successful blog and making money. So how do you get the right keywords to use in your blog texts? There are some tools available on line to help you with this.

Free keyword research tools

There are many free keyword search tools out there you can use for research to help you find the right keywords to use in your blogs.

Overture keyword suggestion tool 

 

Overture has a large network of web portals and search engines, including
Yahoo!, MSN, AltaVista, AllTheWeb, Dogpile and many others. Overture has
recently become Yahoo Search Marketing.

All you need to do is to enter your search term, wait a few seconds and you will
get words, two-word, three-word and longer phrases that relate to your original
query.

 

GoodKeywords

 

Good Keywords is free and easy to use. It uses tools provided by other search
engines to do keyword research automatically. It is much faster than searching
by hand and will save you time and money.

 

Google keyword tool

This is another popular one and like Overture, it is meant to help clients find the

right keywords for pay per click ads. This tool also allows you to search for
multiple keywords and phrases at the same time.

Other free keyword research tools

DigitalPoint has a free keyword
suggestion tool that compares results from Overture and Wordtracker

Ebay keywords   This shows what people have been searching for on Ebay.

Google zeitgeist  shows what people have been searching for on Google

Google Suggest 
 
suggests other search phrases as you type. A Firefox extension called CustomizeGoogle

uses this functionality and also shows how many results there are for a particular
search phrase.

SEOBook  This site has a number of tools for search engine optimization, including a keyword research tool.

NicheBot  returns ten clickable keyword links in a chart which shows their popularity and their potential effectiveness.

Paid keyword research tools

If you are really serious about your research tools and you have the room in your budget to allow it, you might consider some paid research tools.

Keyword Elite

This one is great for finding unique keywords that you might not have been able to find with other keyword search tools. It can also help you find unique niches you hadn’t thought of before. It is well worth the money for any company looking to blog for profit.

Wordtracker

This one is very popular and you have probably heard of it before. They even have a free trial use so you can check out how it works before you pay. It offers a lot of advanced features that allow you to get tier keywords. You can even choose your subscriptions from one day to one year so you can pay for it only when you need it.

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