Keyword Tools

NB: If you sign up your site for their Google Webmaster Tools - it will give you a run down of what keywords your site is appearing in Google for and the average position of that term in Google.  

Also - Please see this comprehensive list of keyword resources at SearchEngineLand -> Search Marketing: Search Term Research.

• SheerSEO Keyword - Page Analysis Online Tool - NEW - Superb Tool, currently FREE featuring ; SERPs tracking tool for Google and Yahoo - Page rank monitoring - Word density - Number of referrers - Number of indexed pages - Site auto discovery for relevant search terms & pages - Main referrals analysis, showing the website's main referral links, the referring page PageRank and link text.

• SEO Book Free Keyword Suggestion Tool - A really neat free keyword tool on SEO book that gives something approaching KEI analysis (well as good as it gets for Free ;0). I personally use a paid Wordtracker account, which you should subscribe to if you're really serious about SEO. Nevertheless, this free keyword tool has some awesome features.

• SeoDigger.com Find keywords by URL - Superb little tool which gives you the keywords and their positions for a given website on Google and MSN - not 100% but gives you a good idea of the keywords you have coming in up in Google and MSN really quickly - Check is accessible only to separate pages of a site - you have to register to see the results but it's free.
• Digital Point - Search Engine Keyword Tracker, Keyword Ranking Tool and Back link, PR Checker. Track your keywords for free. Requires Google API which are no longer issued.

• MyLongTail - Excellent Free tool - reveals in real time which keywords people use to find your website. When acted on, they can increase the natural search traffic to your website.

• MSN Keyword Forecast (NEW) - Not bad this - Enter your keywords/phrases, separated by a semi-colon and it will give you graph or text output of no. of searches / impresssions. (from MS: 'Learn about the impression count forecast and demographic predictions of your search terms. The search forecast results can be shown as Flash, pictures, or text.'

• Google Keyword Tool - (9/7/08 - added search volume numbers to the external keyword tool. The volume numbers are approximations). Generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends.

• GKW - Good Keywords - Download Program - Free Windows software tool from Softnik Technologies for finding the ideal set of keywords for targeting your web pages. Use Good Keywords to find suitable keywords sets, create your meta tags, brainstorm product ideas, etc. Uses Data from Yahoo and Ask.

• Yahoo - Formerly Overture - UK Keyword Selector Tool. Rather better version on nichebot here. (Stop Press - June 08- the new Yahoo keyword tool Has been pulled.)

• Miva Keyword Tool - Apart from Overture and Google Ads tool above - this is the only other UK based keyword tool I have come across.

• IBP Internet Business Promoter - Download Program - The very best free keyword research tool Although you wont be able to use most of the promotion stuff in the program unless you buy it - there is a kick ass keyword research tool that's free to use - the program uses Overture / Yahoo for most countries, Google Sandbox, Miva and a host of others plus a keyword permutation program and a ton of other stuff.

• Yahoo and Wordtracker Keyword Tool - From 123promotion - Gives a different take on these tools by country.

• Check Keyword Traffic - From BruceClay.com - This tool will produce an estimate of daily search activity for a specific keyword phrase on the internet across the major search engines. This is only an estimate, and on a daily basis your mileage may vary.

• Keyword Typo Generator - From SEOtools - Generate a list of suggestions for likely human misspellings and typos for given keyword.

• SearchGuild Keyword Difficulty Checker - how hard it would be to rank for the keyword or phrase.

• Keyword Lexicon - Derive related keywords - thesaurus type tool.

• Ontology Finder - Related Keywords Lookup Tool - The goRank ontology lookup tool checks the top 1000 Google results for your keywords by running a related word query.

•  SEO Sleuth - AOL Search Data - SEO Sleuth was created out of the recently released AOL search data. This tool allows you to view what keywords people searched for. How much organic traffic each site gets from a search engine. How many clicks individual SERPs get.

• Google Multiple Datacenter Keyword Rank Checker - This tool will perform a search across multiple datacenters, and check where your site may be ranking in each of them. This tool differs from others of it's kind in that instead of searching by IP address, it uses the actual domain name associated with that IP, simulating what someone would actually see when going to google.com and hitting that datacenter. Hovering your mouse over the datacenter name will reveal what IP address that name resolves to. This will give you a much more accurate view of what others are seeing when they search.

• Wordtracker Keyword Tool - Find the top 100 related keywords - U.S. Slant.

• Yahoo Multiple Keyword Rank Checker - Check a sites ranking in Yahoo! for up to 5 different phrases at once. Searches are cached, and a new search for a given keyword will only be performed once every 24 hours. Otherwise the rank will be checked against the cached results.

• Advanced Google Searches - Use this tool to search google in many special ways. A useful resource for search engine optimisation (especially keyword research) among other things.

• Keyword Generator for Google AdWords (and Overture) - This Excellent tool generates a list of possible keyword combinations based on lists of keywords that you provide.

• Acronym Finder - With more than 550,000 human-edited entries, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

• Itools Language - Excellent language resource with dictionaries, terminology finder, thesauruses and even a crossword and scrabble solver. Can also find Research Tools - Search Tools - Language Tools and People Search Tools

• Google Trends - Find out the time time of year your keywords perform. Searchable by year and country.

• MarketLeap - Search engine keyword placement check. Also has a history graph for each time you use it.

• Keyword Suggestion Tool (AOL leaked data) - Based on a set of user data accidentally released by AOL from a 3 month period, collected from March 2006 through May 2006, Enter in a keyphrase to see an estimate of how much traffic that phrase would have generated in that time frame for a one month period across the 3 big search engines. Clicking on the number under the Google column opens up Google Trends for that phrase for the month of May 2006, and clicking on the result under the Yahoo column will bring up the Overture Keyword suggestion tool for the most recent month that data is available.

• Keyword Crawler 1.1 (program) (424 KB) is a keyword tool that can analyze your website and provide web page reports for the top keywords used, word density, Google pagerank, internal and external backlinks and broken links. In addition, the program can also generate a sitemap file in XML format. For Windows 98/ME/NT4/2Kx/XP.

• SpyFu - Formerly a program called GoogSpy - this free web-based tool you can use to do competitor research. Powered by Velocityscape's data extraction tool, Web Scraper Plus+, which extracts 500,000 search results a day from Google and loads them into SpyFu's database. The most obvious use for GoogSpy is to discover all the keywords your competitors are bidding for on Google's AdWords.