I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to get effective keyword research done. Basically I have several pages I want to get written, but don't know what keywords I should optimize for. I have gone the route of using overture to get me phrases by hand and manually getting results in a search engine. While it got me the results I needed, it took WAY too long. I tried NicheBot and recall not liking the results. I have just done some work in theme zoom sampler but I don't see enough information on keywords to make a reasonable choices. It initially does seem to quickly give me a decent list of keyword phrases based more on synonyms than on an overture results screen though. Mostly I want to see information on how many people search for a keyword phrase and the allintitile results for a phrase that shows me how many are (apparently) optimized for the phrase. I refuse to spend the $250 a month for the primary version of theme zoom. I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to be doing this research. I appreciate any help I can get and am starting to feel kind of frustrated and desperate. What "should" I be doing? What does everybody else do for keyword research? Joe Jensen
You could pay someone to create those tools for you. It's quite easy actually (read: could be created cheaply). I've create one that caters my personal needs personally with my limited skill of php programming. Most people love Keyword Elite. However, I recently saw my friend used it and realize that my tools does half the function of KE and for those functions, my custom tools is better.
Use Nichebot. It uses overtrue, keyword discovery, wordtracker and also google adwords. It will give you keyword effictiveness index and competition rate i.e. it will tell you which keywords have low competition and that is very useful feature of it.