how do you guys research keywords ?

for free Google Adwords Keyword research tool is best, never tried any paid software.

 

I only use the Google powered tools for that and mostly Adwords Keyword Tool does it for me.

 

1. Go to the Google AdWords Keyword Tool and input the first big seed
keyword on your list. Hit Search.
After the results are displayed, filter them down by clicking "Phrase" under Match
Types. Export/save the data in an Excel CSV (you can use Open Office Calc for the
same purpose if you don't own Microsoft Excel).

2. Load up Keyword Optimizer Pro, its free, u can get it on google and input the same big seed keyword
as you used for the first step.
Set it to Google only, High Search Level, and run the program. Once finished save
results to a text file. Depending upon the keyword, this step will generate 2,000+
keywords for you just from pressing a single button!
3. Go and download Keyword Ninja from any forum.. then install it on wordpress. Then Open wherever you installed Keyword Ninja and again input the seed
keyword.
Set it to scan Google/Yahoo/YouTube/Amazon, and check the "2nd Level" box.
Run the search.
Once it's done export and save the Excel CSV file. Usually Keyword Ninja will
provide another 3,000+ keywords for you depending again upon the popularity of
your main seed keyword.
4. Take the separate keyword results of all three services and copy the
results to a single Excel sheet, combining them in one column.
Use the "Remove duplicates" command to get rid of keywords that two or more
of the services found, usually just 15-20% of the list will be dupes (which is
amazing when you think about how you generated thousands of keywords in just
10 minutes and so few of them are copies of each other).
5. Copy all of the keywords from your Excel list into Market Samurai's
Keyword Research section.
Set Market Samurai to display keyword data for Total Searches, Adwords CPC
(AWCPC), and SEO Comp (SEOC). Set to Match Type: "Phrase" and Period:
"Monthly" with No Filters.
Click on Analyze Keywords and let MS do its thing. For 5,000 or more keywords
it's going to take a bit to get the results, around a half hour.
Once it's done, export the results in an Excel file and save.
6. Open the exported Excel file of Market Samurai results, and sort data
by SEOC, ascending (from lowest value to the highest).
This is the fun part of the process. Scroll down the list to find the best 18
keywords through this keyword formulas:

A. 6 x "Dream Keywords" that have 5,000+ monthly searches, and
up to 500,000 SEOC phrase match competition results.
B. 6 x "Realistic Keywords" that have 2,500+ monthly searches, and
up to 250,000 SEOC phrase match competition results.
C. 6 x "Easy Keywords" that have 1,000+ monthly searches, and up
to 50,000 SEOC phrase match competition results.


Hope This helps.. I read this in a book and I implement this everytime and so far I ve done good work in keywords of my 10 odd clients..

 

google adword tool is best in that category

 

Google Keyword Tool is good.

 

By the way, Bing has any adequate tools, like Google?

 

Or Yahoo, but more inntresting about Bing =)

 

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordTool

 

Google Keyword Tool & InTitle:/ InAnchor are the main two.

 

Get the keywords from your customers, friends,competitors, every source..... from free tools or paid tools, make a long list , compared them , get rid of some, analyse the other keywords, find the high quality keywords , do it ........

 

thanks for your nice tips, let me try to take a try ....

 

is market samurai working ?????? anybody using ?

 

Some simple tips:

1. include your services/product or anything that you offer, e.g., copywriting, web design, new media.
2. include your place or where you are located, e.g., Philippines, California, New York, Japan, Canada.
3. include the synonyms of your product/services that searchers might also use, e.g., content writing.

 

Using the free Google keyword tool is excellent and I base all of my wed domain names, article titles and keywords on low competitive keywords which have a reasonably healthy amount of local and global monthly views.

Mark

 

Google keyword suggestion tool is a best method to search a keyword.

 

For a paid program, try Micro Niche Finder. It performs keyword searches with volume, cost per click and most important, it tells you how difficult it would be to rank for a specific keyword with red, yellow and green symbols.

For a free program, download Traffic Travis. This program has a keyword search, sorter and also ranks keywords by difficulty.

 

I prefer to go for Google Keyword tool...

 

I used Google Keyword Suggestion Tool for my keywords and it was very easy to use. It's also precise and can definitely help you out. Also, you can use as a keyword your website name.

 

Actually market samurai is better than google keyword tool.

 

I use the Google keyword tool and Market Samaria