Top keywords

What are the top keywords on the web - the ones that attract the greatest volume of searches? Knowing these keywords can be fun: who's the most popular, Paris or Britney? YouTube or MySpace? BBC or CNN?

But they also have a serious side. The most popular keywords give you clues to what's happening on the web and that extra bit of insight could give you the edge. You can track the zeitgeist with Wordtracker.

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You can get access to the top 500 keywords now and if you really want to dig deep into the most popular terms you can buy reports of the top 10,000, top 20,000 and top 100,000 keywords.

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   Keyword Basics Part 2: Finding keywords Posted by Mal Darwen on 07 January 2012

   In the second of our Keyword Basics series, Mal Darwen gives a simple method for finding thousands of the keywords that your customers use when they search. He then shows how easy it is to use the Wordtracker Keywords tool to organize and save those keywords so you can easily manage your site's search engine optimization and pay per click advertising.

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   Exploring beyond keywords into behavioral research Posted by John Alexander on 22 November 2006

   If you have ever studied search engine optimization, then you'll know that most educators place tremendous importance on performing good keyword research. But for many website owners, their source of traffic is an after-thought.

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   Demystifying the radically different keyword results provided by Overture and Wordtracker Posted by Robin Nobles on 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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   An ingenious way to use Wordtracker… that’s actually easier too! Posted by Robin Nobles on 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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   Keyword quality and the Wordtracker database Posted by Ken McGaffin on 06 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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   Keyword phrases in linking text Posted by Ken McGaffin on 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.