Free Keyword Tools

The marketing race get tougher and tougher each day as more  and more people compete over the same niches and therefore also the same  keywords  making it harder and harder to  reach the top of the search engine and by that making it hard to earn money.

There are many fantastic products out there that you will  have to pay a descent amount of money to get hold of or pay a monthly fee just  to use. But as Web 2.0 is over us a lot of new web sites have been popping up  with useful functions and often a very user friendly interface that makes it  possible to find great free keyword tools

The way you search for keywords has changed a lot the last  couple years, and you need to gather more and more information when looking for  the perfect word or words. Before you could just type in a word and hit search  and if you got a whole bunch of results that was enough, you could make hundred  “spam” pages trying to lure traffic to your site or just stuff your page with  as many keywords as possible, didn’t matter if what you had written was totally  meaningless as long as it had enough keywords in it.

Now you need to carefully choose your keywords in order to  drive quality traffic to your sites, and you must find exactly the right words  and phrases, general keywords are hard to get any decent traffic from and often  you will have to compete against millions of pages.

Think of keywords as the backbone of your marketing  campaign, without them you are lost in billions of sites. So where do you  really start to gather and evaluate the keywords that is perfect for your  campaign or site? Now you will have to think like your customers or visitor  will do, what are they really looking for? Say you have a site about dog  training, then in your mind you will off course think of dog training as a good  keyword, but the competition for that words is huge and you should start dig  deeper to find long tail keywords that explain dog training in more details  like “how to train your dog to sit” or “dog training collar tips”. The chance  for getting ranked high is a lot bigger and you will get more targeted traffic,  so it is actually only positive to not go after the million dollar keywords  where you compete against million dollar companies.

Now you only need to get out there, and find the tools that  will help you end up with your list of super targeted keywords. The choices are  many and every day new sites and software’s get released into the market making  you research easier. There are many paid services out there and you should  spend some time looking for the one that suits your need the best, they are all  pretty good, but the price vary and they often shows different results and  include extra options and tools.

But if you want to start out easy, there is no need to spend  any money. You could use one of the many free online sites that is devoted to  keyword search, and a great deal of them do a darn good job finding profitable  keywords, they are of course not as good as the paid options, but way not start  using the free ones, and when you see some profit you could spend some of the  earned money on a more professional tool.

I have made a list of 37 free keyword tools that is  available online, and given them a short description on how they work and if  they really are worth using. Also you can find a short list at the end of the  most popular paid options.