I;ve tried a few different tools for keyword research and I like Wordtracker, but don;t like paying the $$. Anyone have any good cheap or free alternatives for keyword research that use something similar to KEI in Wordtracker to weed out keywords that have a low search value to competition ratio?
Hello friend, you can use following tool instead Wordtracker http://www.seotoolset.com/tools/free_tools.html
Platinum KeyWords gives a KEI for each word and a keyword difficulty based on how many website target that word, and how many incoming backlinks have the websites in the top 10 for that given word, you get a rel idea of how hard or easy is to make it into the top 10. You can find it at www.website-promoter.net
I've used the seobook tool and that's probably the best free one I've seen. Still doesn't show something similar to KEI. Also with Aaron's tool, I find that I get the same results if I enter a keyword as a broad, [exact], or "phrase match". Doesn't it make more sense to build a keyword list based on exact or phrase matches, to make sure it's properly targeted?