Keyword Research - Frequently Asked Questions

I use Market Samurai, as well. The price tag may 'appear' high, however, IMHO, it is the best....and that price tag has paid for itself very easily.

100% agree but it's been jittery recently, a lot of google updates have meant it's been unusable for 2-3 day stretches.

Hai Sheryl have a nice day...is it Free or paid?

true market samurai is nice keyword research tool

yea, a friend introduced e to the Market samurai and that what I have been using. is very cool

Have you used any other keyword programs?

I have visited that site but there is not keyword suggestion tool.

Does Market Samurai really useful?

I would like to know is Market Samurai of cost or ..Can you please provide hints of the good side of the tool? I would like to use this tool.

Yes i agree. This is one of the best tools available. This tool is useful in more than one ways. The actual price is around $145. You might want to sign up for a trial and then you will be offered a discounted price of $97. No monthly fees. Just a one time investment.

I'm putting one down for Market Samurai to. Best bit of kit I ever bought.

I am using google keyword tools

I bought both Market Samurai and MNF back in May this year. Got to say MS has been the quicker with updates when google decides to alter something and is always adding new functions.

Yes marketing samurai is best tools for doing keywords research. Accuracy is 85% as compare than company.i love market samurai.

You can the solution from market samurai.

Indeed. Wordtracker, as I understand it, takes (or used to take) their search volume data from small meta search engines, which almost nobody really uses.

They may or may not have then extrapolated that data, somehow, in an attempt to estimate the number of searches you're likely to receive from the three big search engines - Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Seems a kind of arcane, hit-and-miss approach, and based a little too much on guesswork, for my liking. And what's the point in that, when you can just get the data straight from Google (and ok, I know it's not completely accurate all of the time - but it's much better), nicely retrieved and presented into tables, ready to analyse, in a tool like Market Samurai?

So that was a hunch or did you run some tests to check the accuracy? I am asking because I always wonder if there is no merit to those paid keyword tools, why do people still pay for those!

Also, any thoughts on "Keyword Spy" from anyone ?

Tanvir

@OP
Hope you don't mind me asking questions about paid tools on your thread. They are so relevant, I thought we can fit them in one thread rather than starting a new one

market samuri is good

Yes, I am satisfied with you.

Well, you sold me and I wasn't really even looking...

How does it compare to Keyword Competitor?

No kiddin', lol. Market Samurai had my desktop PC slow to a grinding halt whenever I ran it. Frustration to the max! Though this beast of a little laptop I now have sees it running almost as fluidly as beer passes my lips on a night out - just without all the ill after-effects.

Seriously though ... it's a great piece of software. Although use of the Keyword Research module is free, it's worth buying if only for the addition of the SEO Competition and Rank Tracker modules. (Which, collectively, happen to be the only 3 modules I really use, anyway.)

I think you are absolutely right.But there is a huge lack of technique to use Google keyword tool properly.That's why people are choosing different customized tools.I emphasize on Google trends, Google insight for search and Google ad-words keyword tool.I personally believe that these tools are enough to research keyword

yes, Google Adwords tool helps to find keywords , it is suggesting competitiveness of the keyword, Global search volume and also local search volume.

try Market Samurai

danlew but for me keyword winner is not working good as not giving me good result

Hi hellingent

A couple of days ago, I sent the debugging log to MS support team. You are right. It is getting slower especially when you have a large list of keyword to analyze. My problem is with Rank Tracker. This module hangs several times when I use a large list of keywords. Even with a smaller list, it is very slow when clicking to other modules or changing any parameter.

I am still waiting for their recommendation because I did ask them if I need a faster processor or probably 8GB RAM to overcome the sluggish performance of MS.

Cheers!

Andy

@ Majay,

Google Adword tool is not goof for keyword research, sometime it missed some high traffic gaining keyword. I personally feel it.I always use "keyword stealth" for free keyword research and "Semrush" for paid keyword research.

Google keyword tool is best for the keyword search in any region. Every time I use the Google Keword Research Tool.

Currently, I am using Google adwords tool for keyword research, it is best one. Market samurai is also good.

According to me, Google adwords is the best keyword tool.

Google keyword tool + Google Webmaster tool

Since I am not much interest in investing money, I don't use Market Samurai. I have heard it to be the best one though.

I use the Google adwords keyword toll to get a lot of keywords then I verify them with wordtracker free tool. Now I get a list of keyword that are common on both the tools. The last and the final step I veriify them with alexa and it gives me the best possible keywords to take. Never failed in getting traffic with the keywords that I take. I trust alexa to be the best source to get keywords for your site.

it's imperative to choose the right set of keywords from the start of the process. For this, the online marketer mainly uses Google Adwards keyword tool. Other than these, there are many online marketing tools available that you should use, for the analysis of keywords. long tail keywords are also advisable to incorporate .

You can use google keyword tool..

there so many incredible feedback posts about Market Samurai! i am going to test it!!!

Doesn't Market Samurai "just" extract it's data from Google's keyword tool?

BR,
Troels

I used to use Market Samurai a lot but have recently just been depending on Google's tools a lot more for tracking.

Yes, i also use google adwords tool to do keyword research, it show both competition and global search volume as well as local search volume.

Keyword plays an important role in SEO. For keyword research you can use Google Adwords tool.

There are so many free tools for keyword research which we can use for researching the keywords.

According to me For keyword Research Google adword keyword tool is best.

I have been using the Google keyword tool for last 3 years and i found this tool very accurate. So for keywords research it is very reliable tool.

off course market samurai is one of the best keyword research tool which provide the complete detail of keyword including competition search volume you also can use keyword spy tool which also are helpful for keyword research.

i am using google ad-ward and spy glass for researching my keyword. hope this 2 thinks will help you.

Try free trail wordtracker and Google Adwords KW suggestion tool

Hi,

Why don't you use Google Keyword Research Tool. It is the best tool with demand of keywords and it will show you variation of keywords also. I don't know much about paid tools, but the Google's tool is very easy to use and results are significant as well.

Keyword research is the important element in seo. You can use Google ad word keyword tool for searching a keyword,it's very good tool.

Market is really a good one, I have used it first time and found outstanding.

Samurai or Gooogle adword key tool is best to find out highly paid keywords in accordance with their search Globally. Seo book keyword is also a good tool but i preffer adword.

i too use market samurai its not free but is good. but if u want to search free then google adword keyword tool is best.

I'll give you the best and only keyword research tool you will ever need to find keywords...

Are you ready?

Ok...The Google Keyword Tool.

You will be able to find some great keywords by using that free tool. I know a lot of people like market samurai, wordtracker and so on but to be quite honest you will do find using the Google keyword tool.

What I find funny is that most of this other tools (probably all) get their data from the Google keyword tool itself.

So start gathering up ideas and make use of the google keyword tool. I should be putting up a nice post of how simple keyword research really is. I'll be sure to share it!

i always use market samurai at the first preference. but google adword keyword tool and wordtracker are also best if you are working at google adsense.

google adword keyword tool is the best among all....

You can use Google keyword tool for keyword research. It is the best and the accurate tool for keyword research.

I'm always use google adword key word tool and wordtracker.

Many expert here voted Market Samurai. I am new for SEO. I am using Google AdWords Keyword Tool which free. Toady I join here and read above post so I decide I will buy Market Samurai.

Thanks all

Hi,

I usually use Google keyword suggestion tool. its really one of the best tool for keyword suggestion.

I use google keyword tool and its amazing how many keywords you get and combined with quotation search on google.com, you get all you need.

I am writing a short keyword research technique with google free keyword.

Hope you find it and it would be of great help to you.

always liked keyword elite myself

SEM rush is best tool I am using it from last 3 years.

Does anybody know of a keyword /competition analysis tool that allows you to import in a large list of keywords and have only those words analyzed? All the tools that I've tried so far can take in lists but they try to give you other keyword suggestions which I don't want and can be time consuming.

Well the best keyword research tool is google adword tool.This tool is best and i have been using it for long time.This tool tells the whole story of the keyword like competition on the keyword and searching on to the Google.

Google Keywords Tool is the best to me. Because-1. Free 2. It is wide spread and easy to use.

LongTailPro is another tool to consider. Not clear yet how much the Google and Penguin updates have impacted it. It's a one-time purchase.


If you do a lot of searches, then then SECockpit could be your best bet, as it collates and summaries a lot of data that you would have to collect manually otherwise. It is server-based so it's awfully fast, and for that you pay a monthly subscription fee.


If you do a lot of searches and want to keep the cost low, complement tools such as LongTailPro with a proxy server, so "friendly" Google does not ban you.

I am also agree with my all friends siyajoshi. Google adword keyword tool is just amazing for researching keywords it is totally free for use and it gives al the infirmation about the searching keywords like competition on keyword, global and local search with region and also pay per click of the keyword.

If you are looking out for some free keyword research tool, then Google adwords keyword tool is the best.

You must have to try Google Adword Keyword tool. Its is on of the best tool available on the net.

Yes,Market Samurai is the best keyword tool .Many of my friends already are using this tool and they have told me that this is an amazing and most useful tool .

I use google tool. I did not use any other tool. I like to use. This page will help me.

Google adword keyord tool is best tool

hi,
1. Within the help of google adword you can easily find best keyword according to your site.
2. With the help of competitor site report.
3. SEO Keyword tools

Regards
Jogender Singh

Hi guys I have little knowledge on keyword research. Because i new in this term. I am trying to learn about this SEO tool. In this thread most of you are telling about the best performance of Market Samurai. Surely i am assured to use this when i will learn the whole mystery of keyword research. Thanks to every body.

well i have been using the Google ad keywords and i get the desired keywords by simply searching at it.....

So many good recommendation for Market Samurai that need to try it also.

I use Market Samurai as well as Keyword Evolution. You do not need to download Keyword Evolution as it is an online keyword generating tool. This online tool gives you two specific information only: traffic and competition. Uses color coding if the keyword is marketable or not.

Fancy software..

-Christian

google webmaster tool is best all of them and i always use it.

Well, if you researching in any search engine you can find plenty of results of keyword research tool like word tracker, google Adword keyword tool, Keyword discovery tool , keyword spy tool , Market samurai etc.
But, I recommend Market Samurai it is the one of the best keyword research tools which discover the best keywords with optimizing the competitor's weaknesses.

Wordtracker offers Keyword Research tools for SEO and PPC, Rank Tracking and Site Analysis tools.

Well, I listen to the top money makers and of all the tools they could be using, they are STILL using, and promoting others to use, the Google Keyword Tool.

Don't believe everything you read. ;-)

Google Keyword Tool isn't dead. At least it isn't dead yet. Although the results are kind of "frightening" sometimes it still up for good use. Also that post is from 2010. Thomas Hale.

The one thing that seems to at times elude the average marketer is the idea that Google is not a search engine, that is not what they are about.

The fact is that Google first and foremost is a business run for profit.

If you are not on the google radar, all you can hope to do is to glean some crumbs that the large advertisers may leave behind, that is something that you can do, but anyone that does not recognize this fact will find themselves always attempting to bring value to a table that is being setup and used by others.

When I say google radar, that means your a business customer and a big spender at that, what I mean by a big spender is that you spend more than 100,000.000.00 per month, and that might seem like an impossible task for most people, in fact it is, likely that even the top gurus out there in our world do not come close to that kind of advertising budget.

In order for the average Joe or Jane to make a real dent in this world is that you bring something to the table that no one else can, that to say the least in a market saturated with content could be very difficult but not impossible.

The real truth behind Google and its search engines, is that your dealing with a computer, then a human, if you do not recognize that fact again you will eventually find yourself in the place where no good marketer wants to be and that is in the place where they cannot compete with larger and more favored competitors.

What I find to be of great interest is so many products that are designed to deal with google in such a way that has in the past proven to be a failure yet these products are being sold yet today, (automatic backlinks, comment spamming software, blog comments, article marketing, and more every day) some of these are barely logical or even legal, but over all when you fail to see the forest for the trees you need to gain a better perspective else you risk being just another brick in the wall...

In a wall full of other bricks all screaming to somehow get recognized from all the other bricks in the wall.

When you put it all together you can see that there is a method that will work for you but only you can find out what that method is and only you can figure out what this means to you, when you do that you will find out what only few have yet to discover.

There is a pathway to success, but it is not well traveled and in some cases there be serpants...

Yes, it's dead. Move along now. Kidding.

However, a lot of people rely too heavily on it, IMO. And it tends to be wildly inaccurate at times. I wouldn't use it for much more than a very broad estimation. Best thing to do is just get your site(s) up and running. Over time you'll discover that you're getting traffic for all sorts of terms you've never thought of.

The KWT is still a great research tool. But too many people obsess over finding the "perfect" keyword.

As with ANY keyword tool, getting good results depends a lot in your seed keywords.

I use Google tool everyday, even if it is just to validate my findings with other tools.

Well I don't know...I think that people expect too much from Google KWT. I mean, it would be way too much data to return every single specific keyword, exactly how many times it's been searched, and exactly how many times it's been searched in the past year. Instead they give you broad search counts, phrase search counts, and exact search counts, and between those 3 you can identify how much traffic is long tail and how much matches the phrase.

But even if the keyword tool was totally useless, as was already hit on earlier Google never promised anyone a tool that details the exact search count of every single keyword ever searched in Google. The only thing Google ever promised was to do its very darndest to keep people from manipulating their rankings, and to return the most simultaneously relevant and dynamic results to every single search. I don't think anywhere in there was a clause saying they would do their best to help you make money from their search engine business.

How many other search engines even offer a keyword tool? None that I can think of...But I guess I could be wrong.

I mean, if you want to know how people search, then ask a friend, use your brain, or scrape google related results in combination with the Google keyword tool. No, it's not the most accurate historical data out there, but who cares? I wouldn't call it 'dead' just because it doesn't sync perfectly with what you'd ideally like it to do for your business.

Anyways, I guess that kind of turned into a ramble. Sorry y'all.

Kindly,
- Stephen

I think the main problem with the GAKT is the related keywords you get are the ones that they'd really like you to advertise on. So, everyone's being funnelled towards specific keywords.

The trick is to get another source of keywords, like Ubersuggest, or your own referrer logs, and then feed those keywords back into the GAKT to get monthly search volume.

That'll tell you what you want to target.

Or just good ol' brainstorming!

SEMRush helps a lot too. :p

Ask yourself this: What is Google's biggest moneymaker?

AdWords

And what tool are we talking about here?

AdWords Keyword Tool

It was designed for advertisers to provide them with data so they can estimate how much traffic they will receive.

Why on earth would Google wanna make the tool less useful? Because some "internet marketers" decided to use it as keyword research?

i think it's fairly accurate. always use exact searches though. broad is.. well, broad.

no its not dead bloggers just have nothing else to write these days

i need a key word research tool i am looking for one i read about before but can not find it again it was called traffic sheonobi (i think it is misspelled because i tried to search it and came up with no results)

any recommendation would be helpful but if someone knows what of the one i am looking for can you please post the link for me

thank you

forgot about this thread!

yes, THANKS, that's what i focus on these days too - exact match. i choose my priority of kw tho, by phrase match to decide which kw's i should pay special attention to first.

Not dead yet but I've noticed that they are bringing smaller results.

Last month research is not matching up to todays. Not sure what that means but I'm seeing change.

Before I knew the difference between the searches (exact, broad, phrase) I was making rookie mistakes left and right. I went from what I thought was 2 million searches a month... to 58. Make sure you know the differences between the search options if you are going to use the tool.

No, it's not dead. Really wish people would stop making sensationalistic thread titles(the death of..The end of..Is it really the end?)...if it was dead, it wouldn't still be around and providing value. The only REAL thing dead in the SEO arena these days in Yahoo Site Explorer. Though one could just say that it's gone from the public eye and has now been absorbed into Bing Webmaster tools..

Personally I roll chicken bones and look at the clouds to see what the next best keyword is....

Yahoo vanished,,..

I think this is mentioned so many times but it's worth mentioning again: Keyword research is so important, it's the foundation of any Adsense site building. Select the wrong keywords and you have wasted your time.

2 weeks ago, I stumbled upon a keyword phrase (4 words actually) that has 18,000 EXACT local searches. I repeat: 18,000 EXACT local searches

And, the keyword brings in only 977,000 results. The allintitle: query brings me only 13,000 results. I repeat: 13,000 results in "allintitle:" search

This is a gem isn't it? Although the CPC is only $0.70, the huge amount of searches will make up for it.

So without hesitation, I bought the exact match domain name, setup the blog, whacked in some unique content and SENuked twice.

2 days ago it was ranked 9th position and my Adsense click came in yesterday. About $1+.



So if you find a good keyword, don't hesitate!

Here are the 4 question you must anwser while doing keyword research and forget all myth out there.
1. Is this buyer's keyword?
2. What would searchers of this keyword want to see?
3. How may people are searching this per month?
4. Is this keyword competition too difficult or worth your time?

I also prefer using Google keyword tools. Most importantly, I appreciate the variety of research tools that Google offers for free. Some of the key tools that I use for my own keyword research include the following.

1. Google Insights for Search
2. Google Trends
3. Google Adwords Keyword Tool
4. Google Product Search
5. Google Correlate

I think each one of the above mentioned tools has something different and unique to offer. Which of these are you using?

Obaidul Haque

Some claim that the Google External Keyword Tool is still good, while others state that it's constantly varying figures is not always accurate, but considering it's free it's a pretty good tool to point you in the right direction

Yes I agree...Google Keyword tool is not as good as it used to be before but this does not mean it isn't accurate at all. The big businesses still rely heavily on keyword data provided by Google keyword tool.