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Free Google keyword Tool Updated
ByIf you’ve been on the net for a while, you’ve undoubtedly have seen a variety of free keyword tools. Most of these tools give you info that you can gain for free, some compile information so that the data is more understandable and reveals keywords or long tailed keywords that you can use for targeting your blog posts and/or articles if you are doing article marketing.
Just do a search for “Free Keyword Tool” on google…you’d be surprised what you can dig up. These tools are of some use, but for the most part you don’t get anything you couldn’t get with typing your term into Google’s search box and using the free version of Word Tracker.
For me I think one of the most valuable free keyword tools has been Google’s External Keyword Tool. I’ve used it to quickly find valuable keywords, and to find keywords that have little competition for Adwords, while conversely you can use it to find keywords that pay well for Google Adsense. So its been a valuable tool.
The only thing missing from Google’s keyword tool has been the actual number of monthly searches.
Now the Google External Keyword Tool gives you the previous month’s average search volume and you get the average search volume for the past 12 months. You can also start your search by using the Exact, Phrase, Broad, and Negative variation of your keyword.
Finally Google has revealed their average searches and monthly searches for keywords discovered in their External Keyword Tool. This is BIG! Monthly search volume provided by Google is like being invited behind the magic curtain. Google has kept this information secret for a long time, now finally, we can go right to the horses mouth and discover the previous months search volume for a term along with the yearly average search volume for that term.
If you don’t use this information to write your articles and blog posts….then you clearly don’t understand how to use keywords correctly and how to do keyword research!
Make sure you bookmark Google External Keyword Tool and give it a try. At the very least continue to use your favorite keyword tool in conjunction with the external keyword tool and compare the results.
I use Micro Niche Finder to locate long tailed keywords that are specific to the niche, article, blog post or squido page that I am creating. I look for keywords that have a low monthly search volume and is found on a low number of webpages. Micro Niche Finder allows me to dig up these keywords and you’d be surprised how fast you can get your article, blog post, or squido page on the first page of google.
Now I can use the external keyword tool to dig just a little deeper and expose some of those gems. As you can see in the above screen shot, I used public domain as the search term and exposed many niches that could be exploited.
As an example I looked at ‘public domain illustration’ and found that with a “Broad” search it comes up an average of 720 times a month. If I then go to google and search on ‘public domain illustrations‘ with quotes around it, I’ll discover about 1,080 webpages have this exact phrase. It would be a piece of cake to get your article or blog post on the first page of google. With a little work, you could be in number one position.
Using Micro Niche Finder and the above information will even allow you to dig further and find that low hanging fruit, or long tailed keywords that will make you some good money over time.
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2 Comments
March 14th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I am looking for some advice on the Google tool, I wonder if you can help.
I often search and there are 1000’s of results displayed in the Approx Avg Search Volume column yet the data from the previous month is “Insufficient Data”.
This does not make logical senses to me as how can there be no search volume (Insufficient data) during previous months if there are 1000’s on an average month.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
March 14th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Hi Goran….
When using the the Google Keyword Tool take a look at the column labeled “Search Volume Trends” if you can’t see this column, look to the upper right of the window and look for a drop down box labeled “show or hide columns”
Under the Search Volume Trends you’ll get a picture of what the search count appears for each month. Sometimes a search can be seasonal, if your keyword is attached to a season you might see high searches for the month of and the month previous to the occaision….such as Mothers Day. There’s little search activity in December for Mothers Day so you might get an insufficient data message for that month. But checking mothers day in April or May will reveal high search numbers.
Also, Googles Search tool is known to be tempermental at times, if you think there is an error try again latter in the day or the next day.
I use a search tool called Micro Niche Finder that uses info from google to give you an interesting look at traffic for certain terms, check it out and take a look at the videos…..very educational.
Hope this helps.
Scott