The Giant List Of Keyword Tools - Part 1

Keywords are incredibly important. It's one of the major ways that people other than your fans find you. How do we determine which are the keywords to use? By using Keyword Search Tools.

Here's part 1 of a great list of keyword search tools that I came across on the Search Engine Land site.

Keyword suggestion tools

• Google External Keyword Tool – The “big daddy” of keyword tools straight from the belly of the beast. Check out the beta link to the advanced version.
• Free Keyword Tool by WordStream – Really great aggregator of other suggest tools
• Microsoft AdCenter Labs – Keyword suggest tool along with a multitude of “experimental tools” like the search funnels, keyword research, keyword mutation tool, etc.
• Google’s Search-based Keyword Tool provides keyword ideas based on actual Google search queries and matched to specific pages of your website with your ad and search share.
• WordTracker’s Keyword Suggestion Tool

Engine suggestions

Suggestions in the drop-down menus that appear when you start typing in a search box:

• Google Suggest Keyword Suggestion Scraper Tool – This tool grabs the top queries fromGoogle Suggest which normally appears in a drop down menu under the Google search bar as you type a query.
• Soovle is a free tool that provides the search suggestions from various engines around the net including Google, Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc.

Visualization tools & word clouds

• Quintara Word Cloud
• Google Wonder Wheel.
• Visual Thesaurus
• Clusty – A search engine that provides results parsed into categories.
• Wordle – Creates a visual keyword cloud based on the terms you enter.

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