Amazing *FREE* SEO Tool You Can’t Live Without
By Christian Little • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Search Engine OptimizationWhen starting out on your SEO ventures, you need the right tools to get the job done. And unfortunately, SEO is still a very new field of expertise and as such, there is no standardization. With that comes to problem of a huge mix of tools and resources for people to use, some cost money, some are unreliable, some are just stupid, and some actually do a good job – the trick is the find the good ones.
Everybody needs at least one (but most webmasters use several) keyword suggestions tool. Let’s face facts, if you don’t know which keyword to go after, then you might as well not even both building your website. And another fact here – most of the good ones (but not all) cost money (Keyword Discovery, Word Tracker, etc).
And then there’s the free ones that are unreliable (either technically or in the quality of their data). A really good example here is Overture’s Keyword Suggestion Tool…which died a horrible death. Before it was taken down, it was one of the most popular keyword suggestion tools in the world, but webmasters were hitting it with millions of queries daily and it would constantly crash. Furthermore, the data was only from the Overture database, which isn’t that reliable to start with.
So bring on the keyword suggestion tool by Aaron Wall, creator of SEOBook.com. This guy is one of the few “gurus” out there that I have enormous respect for. I’ve met him in person a few times at SES conferences around the world, and all I can say is that he deserves the amazing reputation that he holds. A lot of the “gurus” out there are all talk, but Aaron actually knows his shit and doesn’t dance around it.
So Aaron released SEO book several years ago, and over time it has become an amazing piece of work on it’s own (if you have the money, I do recommend considering it as it’s one of the only reliable sources of SEO methodology – www.seobook.com).
But some time ago he started releasing some of his own tools to the public, one of which is the amazing keyword suggestion tool that he built.
So what makes this tool so amazing? Well it queries multiple keyword databases, presents the results in a no-BS spreadsheet-like layout, and you can export it to Excel.
The tool also predicts the estimated daily traffic for every keyword that is discovered for the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN). It also links you to other keyword tools to backup it’s claims (including Keyword Discovery and Word Tracker, as well as Google Adwords Keyword Suggestion Tool, and Yahoo/Overture’s Keyword Suggestion Tool).
Best of all, it’s 100% FREE.
Even cooler is that if you scroll down past the results, it will also give you a list of related directories, news websites, and many other links of interest to related sites.
You can play with the tool here: SEOBook.com Keyword Suggestion Tool
Christian Little is a web monkey and owner of this website. Aside from blogging about webmastering, SEO, and marketing, he spends his time with his family, running too many websites, playing counter-strike, and provides SEO consulting for a few select clients around the world.
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I use Keyword Discovery at work, seems to work pretty well for us… Usually use the ‘Global Premium’ option.
the Google external tool has pretty much blown them all away now though hasn’t it? search data and advertiser competition straight from the horses mouth..
Google’s tool has been around for a while now and I don’t see it really taking the lead. Yeah it’s great that they are providing something like that, but they don’t really give you the market volumes. All their tool does it show you the impressions/clicks you could expect based on your keyword and bid – but it never tells you how much traffic they actually have available for that term. So it’s kinda misleading, but it does work I guess.
One of tool from seobook which amazed me that which fnd pages with PR and it just shows them with your own criteria. On the other hand theri are many good tools which have been vanished(I think that is due to lack of funds). I shall be happy to donate something and we should be because they help us a lot to earn a lot of money.
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Thanks for this tool, Great Post
the Google external tool has pretty much blown them all away now though hasn’t it? search data and advertiser competition straight from the horses mouth..
Thank you for your refreshing article.
It was a pleasure reading it. Look forward to more articles from you!
Thanks for this tool
thanks for post. Great tools
thanks for post.
But i cant use these tools
Thank you for sharing such a good passage
Seo is difficult without tools. Keyword tool is really good. Thanks for sharing
Google’s tool is a great invention of items, but this article does not seem to give any precise information, look forward to your next post
useful information.really thank you .
keyword tool, .. important for all websites.
Can anyone suggest a very good seo book?-’;
Thanks for the great post and seo tool access. Great stuff!! Its really a great post for seo people to get the information.
Seo Good
Took me long to all the remarks, but I really enjoyed the article. It proved to be very usable to me and I am sure to all the commenters here! It?s always good when you can not only be educated, but also involved! I?m sure you had fun saving this article.
Thanks for the info. Especially, “Even cooler is that if you scroll down past the results, it will also give you a list of related directories, news websites, and many other links of interest to related sites.” This could prove to be a great way to find competitors that are popular for the niche. Inputting them into Yahoo Site Explorer should yield some informative details on their backlinking strategies. Thanks again.