I'm looking for some advice on the best Keyword research tool, bought or free, to assess the volume of searches conducted on a particular query in a specific region over a defined time period - ideally with Google.
There really is no best one, it's better to try a few and see if they rank the keywords in the same order. See http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/ for an extensive list. But if you ask me personally I use the following from that list... http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox http://adlab.msn.com/Keyword-Forecast/Default.aspx
I think Google Keyword external tool is best, bcoz it will provide all the statistics about our keyword suggestions. And later i compare with keyword discovery and wordtracker.
in earlier time i was using digital point's keyword tool, but now i am using google adword tool to research keywords.
Keyword Discovery and Google suggestion are the best. Additionally, I log into my Msn Adcenter account to see if there are some long tails I might have missed out.
Some free and decent services: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/
Friend I think, adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Google has improved more quality in this keyword research Tool and most of peoples are using only google adwords tool. Eric
Here is a compilation of "Blog Tools", all of the above are on the list, if anyone knows of one thats not, suggest it please.