Monday, January 19, 2009

Free Keyword Tools Every Internet Marketer Should Be Using

By Don Lawson

Keyword research is the key to making money online. The proper keyword research can be the difference in getting over 1000 targeted hits a day to your website or getting 10. The proper keyword can also increase your conversion rates. And remember, without conversions, all the traffic in the World won't matter.

A beginning Internet Marketer can save their self quite a bit of money by using one of the many free keyword tools available to them. Some of the paid versions can cost you fifty bucks or month or more. Others have a one time fee of several hundred dollars. Lucky for us frugal marketers, the free versions are good choices for finding those money making niches.

So go get these five keyword tools to help you get started grabbing those long tailed keywords that will make you money.

Google has an excellent keyword tool that many marketers use to find valuable niches. This keyword tool will be invaluable if you're building Adsense sites. This tool can tell you how much advertisers are paying for each click. This will give you an idea of how much you can expect to earn for each click from Adsense.

One keyword tool many of use rely on to locate and research keywords is SEO Book. This tool compiles information from various search engines and other data collecting websites. This is an excellent tool if you have an affiliate product or service you're looking at marketing and need more information on a keyword other than the number of clicks per day it may provide.

The next keyword tool has been around a long time. It's been a favorite of many marketers. A lot of them go on to buy the full version, but for the beginner, the free version is powerful enough. It's called WordTracker. WordTracker's free version allows users to sort and drill down through long tail keywords in order to find ones that will be profitable.

Another free software program you'll want to try is Good Keywords. This is a free program you download to your laptop or desktop. It has several powerful features. One of them is the ability to search for misspellings. Internet Marketers who use Pay Per Click programs to make money online have been using misspellings in their ad campaigns for a long time to bring in the big money.

WordPot is yet another free keyword research tool you'll want to look at. This is a web based program that helps people find keywords. It has several valuable features such as the ability to see synonyms, related words to the keyword you're using and even associated words that relate to the keyword you using. Some alternate keywords can bring in as much, if not more, traffic than the main keyword.

With a little practice, keyword research is a breeze. The more you practice, the better you'll become at finding those long tailed keywords and keyword phrases that will make you money. Now that you know where to get the tools for free, what are you waiting on? Get out and find you some profitable keywords and start building sites around them!

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