With the recent changes served up by Googles’ new algorithm Panda, the playing field has become leveled in many ways. Gone are the days of the foreign content farms that churn out material for rock bottom rates and clutter up search engines. Some fair market supporters cry foul, but a majority of the content that was being put out hurt sites with quality content, and many of the writers were overseas and were able to charge rates those writers in the United States Canada and Great Britain simply could not match. Many of those content writers receive under $2.00 an hour average, and their work took the onus off quality, and onto quantity and keyword stuffing. Here are five tools that can help you stay competitive with the new changes and get the best content for your keyword research needs.
Google Engage and Adwords
Google seems to be at the forefront of everything these days and they wrote the proverbial book on keywords and web research. Their search engine is the most popular and powerful in the world, and Google Engage helps you navigate and research what you need. Google Engage offers training and preparation, and Adwords helps you find your niche and streamline your operation.
seomoz.org
seomoz.org gets you around the fallacy and misconceptions of keyword stuffing and gives you tools to find out what works and what does not. With Google Panda, the game has been refined and Google is on the lookout for keyword stuffing and is focusing on solid content, not the gibberish and keyword stuffing nonsense that has cluttered up the web. SeoMoz.org has free training videos and a powerful that lets you cut and paste your article into a field and analyze it for effectiveness. It gives you a percentage rating of your keywords, the relevance, and the higher the score the better. There are free applications on the site, and they offer a 30-day trial for their pro package that is $99.00 a month.
seobook.com
While it is not the prettiest site to view seobook.com, does provide you with powerful tools such as videos and articles to get the most from your keywords. The keyword suggestion tool and Google suggest tool make finding the right term a cinch. Seobook.com compiles tools from other sources and arranges them on their page and though plain, it does arrange links quite well so you can easily find what you are looking for and suggest tools that you may not have known about.
keywordcountry.com
keywordcountry.com is a pay service that provides you with a bit more in-depth service than most sites and hands on help than some of the other services that do not charge. Your time and effort are still required, but when you are paying the $299.00 yearly fee, it is much easier to get a tech support agent or customer support to help. They do offer a 30 day money back guarantee and packages start at $49.00 per month.
keyword-research.info
This is another straightforward site that compiles information into a central location. keyword-research.info was founded in March 2009 by Jeremy Biberdorf, the sites’ purpose states that they are there to help researchers and those that use keywords find and use the best information possible.
How are you doing keyword research? Share what applications, websites and tools you are using for keyword research on your websites.
9 comments
Paul says:
Jun 27, 2011
Nice compilation of keyword research tools and prices of what they charge. I have used seobook in the past but will take a look at the others I haven’t heard of.
Thanks again.
Justin Germino says:
Jun 29, 2011
I use the Google Keyword Analyzer tool and sometimes resort to using the Keyword Winner plugin installed on my site.
Anna says:
Jun 30, 2011
Sure, Panda has given some trouble to content writers, and not only to them. As for the tools you have presented, they are great and really useful to work with.
A. Tatum Jr says:
Jun 30, 2011
Very useful information Daine. I always learn something when I visit Infocarnivore.
Terry says:
Jul 6, 2011
These are all great tools! I will try them out thanks for sharing…
GetUsSocial says:
Jul 12, 2011
We have used MarketSamurai and dropped it due to some problems with quality and speed. We are currently using SEO Powersuite as a trial. Thank you for taking the time and researching as well as publishing these options.
Thiru says:
Jul 28, 2011
Hi Dani
Its been a lont time to yr blog. NIce updates man. Really wonderful collection of tools of keyword research and just noted and tweeted to my followers.
Jaiden says:
Jul 28, 2011
I like Market Samurai for researching a keyword but it has gone through a period of being really slow with almost constant updates. For keyword generation rather than analysis, are any of the tools you mention significantly better than the adwords tool?
Thanks
englishgoldcoins.org says:
Mar 11, 2012
Adwords is an amazing KW tool, make sure you are signed in to get the full KW list, also use “exact match” to see actual search volume. One thing to note about seobook is that there are a few useful extra tools, such as the list cleaners which can remove duplicates and clean up lists in some really useful ways, great for merging multiple lists!