Keyword Popularity Study Tools

KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOLS

Free Wordtracker Keyword Suggestion Tool
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
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.

Google Keyword Research Tool
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
The Keyword Suggestion Tool for Google will help you choose relevant and popular terms related to your selected key-term.

Google Insights
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
What's the world searching for? With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties.

Google's Wonder Wheel
http://www.googlewonderwheel.com/
The Google Wonder Wheel is a pre-defined mind mapper which helps get all the related search results in a wheel shaped like display (similar to mind mapping software). The intention of The Google Wonder Wheel is to sort out search results in a logical way of relevancy creating a visual wheel of terms.

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/
Offers rough suggested daily search volumes by market for Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. Links the search volumes to the related global search results. Provides links to price estimate tools from Google AdWords. Links to Google Trends, Google Suggest, Google Synonyms, Yahoo! Suggest, and Keyword Discovery keyword research results. Links to various vertical databases like Topix.net, Google Blogsearch, and Del.icio.us to let you know if people are talking about your topic and what types of resources they are referencing.

Microsoft Advertising Intelligence
http://advertising.microsoft.com/learning-center/downloads/microsoft-advertising-intelligence
Microsoft Advertising Intelligence (formerly adCenter Add-in for Excel Beta) is a keyword research and optimization tool. This requires a download.

Microsoft adCenter Labs
http://adlab.msn.com/Online-Commercial-Intention/Default.aspx
Microsoft offers an online commercial intention tool, which offers insights into search intent. This tool can detect customer intent to acquire information or to purchase products based on their search queries or recently visited URLs.

PPC Keyword Wrapper
http://tools.seobook.com/ppc-ad-wrapper/

Keyword Research Resource
http://www.KeywordWorkshop.com
Keyword Workshop - Your Keyword Research Resource - Keyword research is the search for keywords related to your website, and the analysis of which ones will give you the highest return on investment.
Very informative, Keyword Workshop gives us a review on every major keyword research tool on the market.

7Search Keyword Suggestion Tool
http://conversion.7search.com/scripts/advertisertools/keywordsuggestion.aspx
This tool generates keyword popularity by the number of times that a keyword was searched in the 7Search database the previous month. It also displays related terms and their popularity too.

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Google Ageshare Calculator
http://blog.outer-court.com/ageshare/
Calculate the age demographic of your keywords. This calculator is pretty trick, it tells you the age group that is using your keywords to search. Try it out.

Free Algorithmic Search Engine Optimization Tool
http://www.web-inspect.com/search-engine-preparation.php
Is your website ready to rank well at Google? Let this tool give you a bird's eye view of what you can do to modify your webpages right away for a fighting chance at top placements.

Keyword Cloud Builder
http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php
This tool analyzes keyword/keyword phrase density and builds a keyword cloud for you.

Keywordcount.com Keyword Density Analysis Tool
http://www.keywordcount.com
This tool gives you a general idea of the frequency with which keywords appear on a web page.

SPIDER SIMULATOR TOOLS

Keyword Density and Prominence Spider Simulator Tool
http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
My favorite - This tool calculates the keyword density, page's headers, page elements, outgoing links and more. It warns when it detects possible stopwords, adult words and 'poisonwords'.

Keynote NetMechanic
http://www.netmechanic.com/products/HTML_Toolbox_FreeSample.shtml
Can't seem to get into the search engine indexes? Ever wonder if your website is invisible to searchbots? If you are sure that your website has not been blacklisted, try this free service. It's spider bot analyzes and reports the errors and spider blocks that are occuring in the source code.

W3C Quality Assurance Semantic Data Extractor
http://www.w3.org/2003/12/semantic-extractor.html
This tool is a teeny bit testy. Try it out, if you don't find it helpful try the next link below..ranks.nl/tool/spider.html

Spider Simulator Tool
http://www.1-hit.com/all-in-one/tool.search-engine-viewer.htm
This tool is quite interesting. As a spider simulator it spiders any page and reports on your links and if they can be seen and indexed by search engines, on scripts, styles, meta tags, images, frames or no frames, and imagemaps.

Jim Tool's Keyword Density Spider Simulator Tool
http://www.jimworld.com/tools/keyword-analyzer/
Tool supplied by ranks.nl. Doesn't need a keyword. Analyzes page in general for overall weight.

Webmaster Toolkit's Spider Simulator Tool
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-simulator.shtml
This tool shows you how a web page would look to search engine spiders.

Webjectives.com Keyword Density Analysis Tool
http://www.webjectives.com/keyword.htm
This tool measures the optimum density of keywords which appear on a web page.

FABULOUS MISC TOOLS

Digital Insights That Give You The Competitive Intelligence.
http://www.compete.com/
"Web analytics means analyzing what consumers do across the entire web, not just what they do within a particular site, and that marketers can use this rich information across the entire company, not just for online media planning or site design decisions. Compete.com is an online competitive intelligence service that combines site and search analytics in one site to help you quickly master online marketing. You will be able to identify rival search marketing strategies that will help you take your SEM and SEO efforts to the next level, and stay on top of rivals with site metrics and audience profiles."

Search Engine Positioning Tool
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/
Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool

How difficult is it to rank for your keywords on the first page of a Google query?
http://www.searchguild.com/cgi-bin/difficulty.pl
You will need to create an account and get yourself a http://www.google.com/apis/ Google API License Key but well worth the effort.

Free Web Submission.com's Website Ranking Tool
Find your site ranking, on 12 search engines, for important keyword search terms and keyword phrases. This tool is free to all.
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/site-ranking.html

Free Keyword Ranking Report Service
http://www.checkrankings.com
Sign up to monitor all your keyword rankings for free. You will need to create an account and get yourself a http://www.google.com/apis/ Google API License Key. (The entire process is free and easy.)

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SEO Tools Provided by Li'l Engine.com

Not ranked in the top 30 at Google? So just where are you ranked?
http://www.googlerankings.com/index.php
If it's at least the top 1000, there is hope. The next question is whether or not it is worth the expense and the time to optimize for. The following tool will give you an idea of how much traffic you can expect from your keyword.

The Google Sandbox - The Single-Biggest SEO Ranking Factor for New Sites
Learn some of Google's SEO ranking factors are including how to avoid landing in Google's Sandbox.

Lexical FreeNet
http://www.lexfn.com/
This free service produces drill down lists of synonyms of words.

SearchSpell
http://www.searchspell.com/typo/
Misspelled words finder tool. Obtain a list of commonly misspelled words that apply to your topic or your targeted keywords/keyword phrases.

iTools! Language and Word Finder Tools - Dictionary, Thesaurus, Translater
http://www.itools.com/lang/
Popular language finder tools. Synonym and Antonym finder tools, Related Word and Rhyme finder tools, Similar Sound finding tool, Homophone (words that are pronounced exactly the same as your word) tool, Same Consonants (words that have the same consonant pattern as your word) finder tool, and many more.

Mike Scott's Web
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/
This is lexical analysis software for data-driven learning and research.

VBPro Content Analysis
http://excellent.com.utk.edu/~mmmiller/vbpro.html
Programs that do content analysis, create lists of words in a file along with their frequency in alphabetical order or in descending order of frequency and find and tag key words and phrases in context.

Atlas.ti
http://www.atlasti.de/index.html
Software program that helps you to uncover the complex phenomenons hidden in your data in an exploratory way.

Research-It
http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html
Language tools

Name Stormers
http://www.namestormers.com/
Company and brand name development offering services and software to help you come up with name ideas for your products, services, companies, websites, etc..

Naming Newsletter
http://www.namingnewsletter.com/
Offering naming workshops and a quarterly report on the strategy and tactics of naming.

Google Dance "The Shakeout"
http://dance.efactory.de/
What is the "Google Dance" exactly? Markus Sobek has written a fabulous piece on the "Index Update" of the Google Search Engine.

99 Google Ranking Factors Checklist
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm
This is a helpful list of factors that may possibly assist in your search engine optimization efforts in getting to the top of Google's search results.