Keyword tools are very important in your traffic building strategies because they enable you to carry out research faster and better than if you did not use them.
Compete:
Compete provides information including keywords and rank used by competitors in your market. They can be used to tell which keywords your competitors are targeting, and which ones they are ranking for.
Wordtracker
Most widely known. It give you a wide variety of keywords. The free version gives you up to 100 keywords while the paid version gives you unlimited keywords
Google’s Free AdWord tool
Google’s free AdWord tool helps you to determine search volumes in for a specific keyword, this is very important because before you even design your website and invest your hard earned money, you must first of all find out if there is enough demand out there, this is where Google’s AdWord come into play.
The phrases you should target, should have fewer than 50,000 results in Google when you search for them in quotes, like this. “Keyword phrase here”, if it has more result it could be an indication of market saturation. Your goal should be to rank number 1 or 2 in your chosen keyword. You need to find between 11 to 12 ‘keyword phases ‘ and use them as the foundation to build your content upon.
The reason you should always conduct your keyword search terms by wrapping your text in quotes is because of relevancy and keyword proximity
Using Competition
You can peak into the source code of competing websites as well as generate a detailed analysis sheet consisting of back links, external traffic sources, on-site keywords and other important data that will help you directly compete with the top ranking sites in your market
Yahoo Answers
Yahoo answers is a powerful human generated content website which closely represent humans’ concerns at certain points in time, here you can carry out market research in order to determine hot topics. Hot topics represents problem areas, problems require solution and this is where you come in to build a solution using those problem areas as keywords.
