Free Keyword Research Tool
Those of you who have started doing your own SEO (search engine optimization), affiliate marketing, niche research, and other internet money making ventures have probably been bombarded with pitches, reviews, recommendations etc. for keyword research tools. After all, if you don’t know what keywords to target in your SEO efforts, how do you expect to make any money?
I’ve used quite of few of the major keyword tools out there, and for the most part think that they’re all pretty good. People have their favorites and will promote them vigorously, but that’s not what this post is about. If you’re like me, you tend to be skeptical of what people tell you is wonderful when they’re getting paid if you believe them and buy the product. And, I like to try free stuff. There’s a ton of it out there, and you can spend your whole life trying one thing after another and never getting ahead in selling things yourself or putting together a top-rated website. I don’t have time for that and you probably don’t either.
I just read a post from someone I have a lot of respect for and who gives tons of excellent free advice on how to make money online. He just wrote an article on a cool little free tool called PPC Web Spy that lets you scope out the top-rated websites for any given search word, and see what keywords they are using. I don’t know about you, but I’ve often looked at these sites and wondered just what the heck made them so special. By toggling the PPC Web Spy plug-in, you can quickly see what they’re up to. It’s also good for looking at what keywords the unpopular sites are targeting, so you can stay away from them!
There is a premium paid version of the tool, but don’t bother. This isn’t particularly useful as it gives some strange and unreliable results (the free version can do that too, depending on the niche you’re looking at), so stick to the free version of PPC Web Spy.
This is a Firefox plugin, so you need to be running Firefox browser. You get the PPC Web Spy icon in the lower right-hand corner of your browser, and you toggle the plugin on and off by clicking on the icon. It’s really easy, has some decent information that you can use in your keyword research, and best of all…it’s FREE! But as always with free stuff, take it with a grain of salt and look at the results carefully to see if they make intuitive sense. There isn’t a tool out there that can beat the human brain for deciding what is relevant and meaningful, and what isn’t.
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