Keyword tools

Wordtracker offers you the leading keyword research tools to help you find the keywords you need to succeed online.

Wordtracker's free tool offers a quick look at the most popular 100 searches containing to any one keyword.

A Wordtracker subscription offers:

  • access to a regularly updated database of millions of real searches made at search engines
  • filters that remove searches by robots.
  • numerous configurations of your searches and results, allowing you to create your own custom keyword tool.
  • analysis of results showing you the popularity and level of competition for each keyword
  • management tools that allow you to store your results for numerous different projects.

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  1. Park Seed: Sowing the seeds of success on the internet

    Park Seed: Sowing the seeds of success on the internet by Neil Davidson, 31 August 2007

    Park Seed is a multi-million dollar gardening business that had built its incredible success on print-based catalogs. So starting business on the internet seemed like a leap into the unknown. But there was a link between these different worlds...

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  2. Keyword Basics Part 3: Choosing your best keywords

    Keyword Basics Part 3: Choosing your best keywords by Ken McGaffin, 22 February 2007

    You know how sometimes you make a list of say, three things and then by the time you get to the end of the list, you remember that there’s something you really must include and your list of three becomes a list of four? This is Part 3 of Ken McGaffin's Keyword Basics series

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  3. Keyword Basics Part 2: Discovering the keyword matrix

    Keyword Basics Part 2: Discovering the keyword matrix by Ken McGaffin, 28 December 2006

    This is the second in Ken McGaffin's Keyword Basics series and a simple method for expanding your lists of profitable keywords. The secret of writing great online copy is simple: use keywords - the words people use when they search - in your copy.

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  4. Three good reasons to target long tail keywords!

    Three good reasons to target long tail keywords! by Stephen Mahaney, 22 December 2006

    Seasoned professionals in the arena of online marketing know it's clever to use keywords that target potential customers who are "late" in the buying cycle. So, how do you find out what these keywords are? ...and why are they so important?

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  5. Keyword Research Guide

    Keyword Research Guide 24 November 2006

    We created a fictional company, Virginia Veg, and asked experts to provide real answers to the problems facing its CEO, Susan Webster. The result is an e-book packed with insight, tips, and techniques on keyword research that you can apply easily to your own website.

    Download Wordtracker's Keyword Research Guide as a PDF.

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  6. Keyword Basics Part 1: How search engines work

    Keyword Basics Part 1: How search engines work by Ken McGaffin, 24 November 2006

    One of the most frequently asked questions from website owners is, "Why can't my site be found on Google?" They know it's important to appear in search engine results but they just don't know why it doesn't happen to them.

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  7. Demystifying the radically different keyword results provided by Overture and Wordtracker

    Demystifying the radically different keyword results provided by Overture and Wordtracker by Robin Nobles, 28 October 2006

    The root of all success in search engine marketing begins with keywords. Period. Get them wrong and virtually everything about your online endeavor will fail. So do so many – professional and amateur alike – buy keywords based on highly skewed numbers?

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  8. An ingenious way to use Wordtracker… that’s actually easier too!

    An ingenious way to use Wordtracker… that’s actually easier too! by Robin Nobles, 25 October 2006

    You'll find most of your 'revelations' or 'insights' by using the Comprehensive Search feature of Wordtracker. Try entering one part of a search phrase and let the tool figure out the best 'full use' of the phrase.

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  9. Keyword quality and the Wordtracker database

    Keyword quality and the Wordtracker database by Ken McGaffin, 6 October 2006

    Search engines get bombarded with automated queries from ranking monitors, popularity analyzers, bid optimizers and other tools. This deluge of non-human activity distorts keyword counts, and if it is not identified and eliminated will leave you with very poor keywords.

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  10. How to choose keywords before they skyrocket in popularity

    How to choose keywords before they skyrocket in popularity by John Alexander, 25 November 2005

    Long before the days of researching phrases with the helpful online resources of today, keyword selection was often left to guesswork. However, guesswork is just not good enough in highly competitive standards.

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  11. Keyword phrases in linking text

    Keyword phrases in linking text by Ken McGaffin, 27 October 2005

    Often simple things really matter. And the use of keywords in linking text is one of those simple things that turn out to be hugely important. Linking text, sometimes called anchor text, is the clickable text that takes people to another page or resource. You need to choose that text carefully.

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