Comments on: Keyword Research Tools Showdown

By: jamie

jamie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:03:00 +0000

These are all great KW research tools. What do you think about using Twitter Search for mining kw data? I find it useful to set up an RSS feed with the query string containing the kw I’m targeting, just to see how people are talking and the language that they are using. I find it’s also valuable for reputation monitoring/management.
Also, I’d add Analytics data and internal search data to this list.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:36:11 +0000

Thanks for the great post Ian. Actually i only used adwords for my keyword research. Maybe now i will try to used some of those list you have.
Thanks again.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:24:49 +0000

Great post Ian – thanks for taking the time to really review these thoroughly!

By: Tom Demers

Tom Demers — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:29:45 +0000

Hi Ian,
Nice list. Sorry you didn’t find the free tool useful; still thanks for taking a look, and thanks for the kind words regarding our paid solutions!
Tom Demers

By: Bartjan

Bartjan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:41:54 +0000

Besides the free Google tool I have experience with the paid versions of wordtracker and keyword discovery (the full version) and they provide a great deal of information.
However since almost all of the keyword research I do is for Dutch keywords, they miss a lot of information and only the free google tool provides much better info.
However for English research they are great.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:43:25 +0000

You messed up a link to Wordze. The “Order it”-link isn’t working (misspelt the anchortext in the code). And no, I am not working for them, just picky :)
Great post! Will definitely look up Wordze (which is why I noticed the broken link :D)

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:14:17 +0000

@Neil There are just too many tools out there to research ‘em all. Great suggestion on the WordTracker Labs tool and I’ll check out Market Samurai and Traffic Travis next time.

By: Neil Lee

Neil Lee — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:49:49 +0000

Hi Ian
This is a great summary post – darn wish I had done it! :)
Was surprised you did not look at Market Samurai or Traffic Travis – these have keyword research functionality and a bit more.
The other thing I recommend is the wordtracker labs question tool (http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions)
Anyway, I am off to check out some of your sites recommended above ; ).
cheers
Neil