Tuesday, December 30, 2008

5 Free Keyword Finders For Beginning Internet Marketers

By Don Lawson

If you're not using keyword tools to find profitable keywords, you're leaving money on the table. Keyword tools allow you to find phrases that people are using to search the Internet. The right keywords can actually be more profitable than your main keyword. Finding these money making words is easy once you start using the right tools.

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.

These five keyword tools are free to use and powerful enough for anyone to find those hot niches.

One tool you'll want to learn how to use is Google's keyword tool. This free keyword tool will show you the approximate number of searches in the past month and the avereage number of searches per month over the last year. You can also see the approximate per click rate advertisers are paying for your keyword.

SEO Book has a great keyword research tool that I use. In fact, out of these 5 tools, it's probably the best out there. This tool will show you many variables on each keyword. For example, it will show you the estimated clicks per day from all the major search engines, the Compete Rank, Google Trends and many more. You can really drill down to find those profitable keywords with this tool.

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.

Good Keywords is a free program you can download to your desktop or laptop. One feature I really love about this program is its ability to find misspellings. Misspellings can really make you a lot of money. For example, many people go to a search engine and type in 'low fat deserts' instead of low fat desserts. Misspellings have been used by smart Internet Marketers to make loads of money over the years.

If you really want to expand your keyword base, then WordPot is a free keyword tool you should give a try. This tool has many features, including the ability to find synonyms and other related keywords. By including alternate keywords or words related to your keyword, you can add substantial amounts of money to your bottom line.

Learn how to use these free keyword research tools and you'll soon see the value of good keyword research. A list of highly targeted keywords is like diamonds in a diamond mine. They're just sitting there waiting to be found by a smart person. The sooner you get started, the sooner you can discover these gems and start making money online.

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