Top Keyword Research Tools-How to Check Popular Search Phrases

There are hundreds of keyword research tool available in the market to make keyword research a easier job. Despite the presence of many easy-to-use keyword tools, one need to have some basic keyword research tips before starting to optimize any sites. If you are really interested to learn the fundamentals of keyword research then this hub will work as a keyword research guide for you.

Suppose today you just have made a new hub or webpage and thinking about to promote it. The best way to promote your site is to make it search engine freely because on an average a site gets it over 60 percent traffic from search engines, which are free to join. To make your site appear in the first page of Google or any other search engine firstly you need to pick out the best keywords that match the contents of your sites. Picking the right keyword is a very important step because people will be using the keywords in search engines to find your site link or products you want to sale. At first you need to think yourself as a user or buyer and decide if you wanted to buy that kind of product your site is selling what would be your chosen keywords for search.

For example, you have a site named www.articlewriting.com So now look for the right keywords . One of the best methods is to simply read the website you want to promote. As you read it, write down keywords or short phrases that you think people might use when searching for your site or your products. If you were doing that to the www.articlewriting.com site then you could come up with some keywords like these:

Online article writing
Online article Paid Surveys
Ways to submit article online
article writing Jobs
make money writing article…………..

Remember that just choosing a few keywords will not be enough.You have to have a whole set of relevant keywords that describes your site’s contents properly. In time you will see, the more you have, the more chances you have of getting a visitor to your site. So once you find the keywords you came up with after reading the site, you want to use some of the tools below to expand on your list. The following tools make adding to your list a very simple process.

TIPS: Use common word variations. If you have a word like Drive, then also use Drove, Driven, Driving, etc. You'll also want to use the common misspells like keywors, keywods, keword etc.

Points to Remember

-Remove the poor performing keywords that are not receiving any clicks, as they will drag the overall click through rate down.

-Take some time and read over your website or hubs that you will be publishing. After familiarizing yourself with them, pick your main keywords that you will be using. Then use the keyword tools to find all the variations of those keywords.

-Make as many keywords as possible. The more keywords and keyword variations you have, the better chance you have getting new visitors to your site . Be sure to use Google's exact matching for your keywords.

For example: free book, "free book", [free book]

To automatically generate exact matching keywords, try Adwords Wrapper

- Try to create keywords variations by finding synonyms. You can use the synonyms feature in Microsoft Word or you can try a synonym tool on LexFN.com.

- You can create keywords and keyword variations using online tools. Create keywords from misspellings and abbreviations. Many visitors often search for sites or topics through abbreviations and they misspell the keyword as they are humans too.

Following are examples of Abbreviations:

For "Federal Bureau of Investigation " type "FBI"

For “Television” type “TV”

Following are examples of misspellings:

For “Games”
Gamds, Gamed, Gsmes

For “Business Opportunity”
Busines Opportunity, Business Opportunitie, Business Oportunity

Following are examples using variations of a word:

For “online”
on-line, on line, online

A good tool to use for misspellings is Typo Generator.

Wordtracker Keyword Tool

You can use Word tracker's free version of their keyword tool. This is one of the best one available.This tool can give you the estimated daily search volume across various ppc engines for any keyword you type in.

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

You can type in one or more keywords in this tool and Google will give you all the possible combinations of that keyword. This will help you find many more keywords related to the ones you type in the tool.

These next two sites given below are not free like the two above. But you definitely get what you pay for. I think you can use these after you make some profit of your sites

Wordtracker

This is another great tool for digging out keywords. You can get a free trial and test it out.

AdWord Equalizer

This tool is really a great one to have. It's not cheap, but it does a lot of things including showing you what the hottest search terms are, what products are being promoted with those search terms, how much the cost-per-click is on some of the smaller search engines and so much more.