The first and most important thing for any successful SEO or SEM campaign is to select keywords which are relevant & also has good traffic as well as competition (why run away from competition lets beat the competition with right SEO Strategy). Keyword research or keyword selection is very complicated if you don’t have proper keyword research tools, which allows you to know the current trends, estimate visitors & suggest better keywords which brings traffic.

Well every SEO/SEM professional has his own ideas, strategy & methods for choosing the right keywords; I am going to review top 20 keyword research tools in this post.

Don’t forget to bookmark, so you can easily find all keyword research tool at one place. This list will be updated regularly. If you have any suggestion Pls post in comment ill add it to the list

Google Keyword Tool (Free) – http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

This is my favorite, one of the most used keyword tools & it is also very trusted among SEO/SEM Pros. It gives you all details you need for selecting keywords Like Estimated Ad Position, Estimated Avg. CPC, Advertiser Competition, Approx Search Volume in last month, Approx Avg Search Volume, Search Volume Trends, Highest Volume Occurred In a month & Match Type. Ever since Google has started showing number of searched for the keywords, the value of this tool has increased many folds as now you can yourself calculate the KEI without needing any paid keyword tool.

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool (Free) – http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

This tool is created by Aaron wall of SEOBook.com. This tool give you lot of information for your keywords. It gives you;

• WordTracker Keyword suggestion
• WordTracker Count
• Google daily estimate
• Yahoo! daily estimate
• MSN daily estimate
• Overall daily estimate
• Yahoo! Suggest
• Google Trends
• Google Traffic Estimates
• Google Suggest
• G Sktool KWs
• Link to AdWords Keyword Tool /G Insights/Quintura /KW Discovery

KeywordSpy.com (Paid $89.95 a month) – http://www.keywordspy.com

KeywordSpy is a paid keyword research tool, packages starts at $89.95 per month. i just used their trial version , its good if you want track your competitors or if you are into PPC & want to find what keywords your competitors are using for their PPC campaigns. KeywordSpy allows you to find & download all the keywords which your competitors are bidding on including the ad copy they are using.

Google Insights (Free) – http://www.google.com/insights/search/

Google insight is an amazing keyword research tool by Google. Google insights keyword tool allows you to compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames. it also shows top searches in that region & keywords with rising searches

Spacky.com (Free) – http://www.spacky.com

Another great free keyword research tools which gives you estimated monthly search volume from Google, Yahoo and MSN for the keyword searched & also suggests more keywords. Spacky even allows you to download the keywords into a text file for easy copying and pasting.

Go Rank (Free) -http://www.gorank.com/analyze.php

Go Rank is a page analysis tool which helps your determine the relevancy of your web pages based on certain keywords. It really helps in analyzing page for keyword density n other factors affecting page

Keyword Tools – (Free) – http://www.keywordextend.com

Keyword Extend is not a keyword research tool, but rather a tool that can help you quickly generate the different keyword variations for adwords or PPC campaign such as broad, phrases and exact match. Additional features include reversing words, creating keyword lists with variations, removing duplicate keywords and many others. This tools is free for you to use and can help you save hours of precious time.

AdCenter Labs (Free) – http://adlab.msn.com/Keyword-Research.aspx

This is a great resource provided by MSN. It is more than just a keyword research tool. This tool will help you *understand* your market. You really need to spend some time at this web site to understand the power of this free resource.

KWBrowse.com (Free) – http://www.kwbrowse.com

This free keyword research tool gives you keywords from related markets which is almost similar to the product or services you are promoting. This tool can help you attract visitors from related market who may be interested in the product & services you are providing.

Quintura.com (Free) – http://www.quintura.com

Quintura is a nicely presented visual search engine. It is almost similar to KWBrowse.com, one thing that separates it from kwbrowse.com is that instead of showing results in a tree format it shows related as a keyword cloud or similar to the tags which we see in delicious.com. it also shows you related terms when you hover on a keyword.

SpyFu.com (Free and Paid version) -http://www.spyfu.com

SpyFu is again a keyword research tool for PPC guys. Similar to keywordspy.com spyfu.com also shows you what your competitors is doing like ad budget, ad copy, daily budget, organic & paid competitors, with so much information you can easily find the keywords from your organic and paid competitors to use in you PPC campaign for traffic generating. They have two versions a limited free version with an option to upgrade for full membership at about $279 annually.

Good Keywords (Free and Paid version) – http://www.goodkeywords.com

Just visit their site goodkeywords.com & you’ll find 3 different software’s Keyword Pad, Keyword Explorer & SEO Lab Gold for Competition Research. Misspelled keyword feature is really useful because more than 10% searched are misspelled. The free version also has very good features such as a keyword organizer, site popularity gauge and a user-friendly keyword research interface.

Traffic Travis (Free and Paid Version) – http://www.traffictravis.com

Traffic Travis is an excellent tool. The free version has almost same features as paid version. Using this you can Analyze page, find keyword positions, find keywords, analyze competitor websites etc…This is a *MUST* download and I am sure you will be thanking me for pointing you to this free resource.

KeywordDiscovery.com ($49.95 per month) – http://www.keyworddiscovery.com

It’s another paid keyword research tool. Keyword Discovery will help you in finding industry related keywords, Keyword Research, misspelled keywords, KEI & Keyword Density Analysis.

WordPot.com (Free and Paid Version) – http://www.wordpot.com

This is another keyword research tool which gives you related keywords with daily estimated search volumes, synonyms.

Wordtracker.com (Free and Paid Version) – http://www.wordtracker.com

WordTracker is one of the most used & oldest keyword tools on the internet. It’s very simple & useful keyword research tool but lot of found I noticed that few keywords generated by WordTracker free version is not relevant or of no use.

KeywordElite.com ($174 one-time cost) – http://www.keywordelite.com

Keyword Elite is created by well-known IM marketer Brad Callen. Keyword Elite is actually 5 in 1 keyword tool you can analyze keywords & at the same time spy on your competitors. It is priced at $176 onetime fee.

WordButler (Free trial then $19.95/month) – http://www.wordbutler.com

I haven’t used this tool but some features listed in their site looks good especially Human Cognition Emulator algorithm 7 you can also export keyword list to your adwords campaign with just one click. They have 2 payment options yearly ($147) 7 monthly ($19.95) with a free trial.

Nichebot.com – http://www.nichebot.com

Nichebot gives you keywords from 3 major search engines. Nichebot can translate keywords in 23 languages & also shows you competition on 3 competition search engines & you can also perform LSI keyword research. You can easily Sort, merge, copy, filter and export data, they also have video tutorial which makes it easy to use.

Trellian – http://ci.trellian.com/index.html

With Trellian You can know traffic sources of your competitor’s web sites which will help you in identifying good traffic sources. You can find out which sites are responsible for sending traffic to their pages, including search engines and the search keywords used. Also trillion has few other tool in it like , Keyword Manager, Keyword Suggestion Tool, Keyword Density Analyzer, Keyword Explorer, Rank Checker, ROI Calculator & many more

So that’s it for now, will come up soon with one more useful post. Pls comment & spread the word if you found it useful.

Reminder: Don’t forget to bookmark, so you can easily find all keyword research tool at one place. This list will be updated regularly. If you have any suggestion Pls post in comment ill add it to the list

I am releasing my first Free wordpress theme FlowerLuv .

FlowerLuv is a fixed width 3 column wordpress theme. The theme is 100% widget ready and can be used on all the versions of Wordpress, and has been tested on most of the browsers.

nowadays i am workng on lists so here is my first one . list of pligg based sites.

A pligg site is basically a Digg clone. It’s a free CMS which acts almost exactly like Digg. You can download Pligg for free at http://www.pligg.com

The benefit of Pligg sites:

You can submit to a whole list of them very quickly (if you know what you’re doing) and they are indexed very quickly.They are indexed very often (sometimes listing a page on your site will get you indexed within an hour).

Ally Times PHPLD Template is the sixth of the ten template series and this one is one of the best of all. Ally Times Template was designed keeping in mind a pure HTML based Search Engine friendly template with the design and concept of something that has been used widely since many years.

This phpLD template has a top horizontal navigation menu, a nicely placed logo, description and the search bar. Striking feature includes a “Date” functionality, placed right beneath the search bar. It pulls out the date for the visitor and displays the date as “Today is Sunday, Day/Month/Year”. The category box is pretty simple. The template supports a right sidebar with enough space for your 200 pixels wide advertisements/banners.

Ally Times is a tested on all the popular browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 6 and IE7.

PHPLD Version: Orange Tango PHPLD Template Is Only Available For 2.x Versions (i.e. v2.1.2 or v2.2.0)

Live Demo: http://www.educationtimesdir.info/

Download Link: http://www.allydirectory.com/downloads/Ally-Times.zip

Preview Of The Template:

Free PHPLD template AllyTimes

One more beautiful PHPLD template from allydirectory. As the name says it’s in a cool combination of orange & white.

Adsense ready with a 468×60 banners space near logo & in right sidebar you can add text link say about your seldf & also add a 200×200 adsense after some modification in template

Orange Tango template has been tested on tested on Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 6 and IE7.

PHPLD Version: Orange Tango PHPLD Template Is Only Available For 2.x Versions (i.e. v2.1.2 or v2.2.0)

Live Demo: www.shopperdir.info

Download Link: http://www.allydirectory.com/downloads/Orange-Tango.zip.

Preview Of The Template:

Free PHPLD Template

Autumn PHPLD template is one of the 10 free phpld templates by designers at allydirectory.com for phpld version 2.xx.

It is XHTML and CSS validated 2 column phpld templates in Orange and Green color with a left sidebar and top horizontal sidebar. It is adsense ready; you can add your 200×200 adsense in sidebar & if you know how to edit then you can add more too (contact me if you require adsense integration or phpld mod installation J ).

PHPLD Version: phpld 2.x Versions (i.e. v2.1.2 or v2.2.0)

Download Link: http://www.allydirectory.com/phpldtemplates/autumn-phplinkdirectory-template/

Demo : Not Available

Screenshot of the Template:

Free PHPLD Template Autumn

Morning Dew the tenth & last template of their phpld version 2.0 template series.
Just like all ten free phpld templates from ally directory this too is a adsense ready 2 column phpld template with a left sidebar for advertising space (not sure but I think they have created 5 templates with right sidebar & 5 with left sidebar …. Why not a 3 column?? I guess just because I love 3 column designs ).

I love the way they have added a banner space above category section on all their templates.

morning-dew-phpld-template

Author : AllyDirectory

For PHPLD Version : v2.1.2 and v2.2.0

Demo :

Download : http://www.allydirectory.com/phpldtemplates/morning-dew-phplinkdirectory-theme/

Another red color free phpld template by ally directory for version 2.0+. a left sidebar with a about us block & sponsored link section , you can also put adsense ads here & also a banner above category column.

red-night-phpld-template

Author : AllyDirectory

For PHPLD Version : v2.1.2 and v2.2.0

Demo :

Download : http://www.allydirectory.com/downloads/Red-Lite.zip/

Boogle is lovely 2 column phpld template blue in color with flowery design on header. just like most of the free phpld templates by ally directory this also has a banner space above categories column & about us column in right sidebar.

Boogle PHPLinkDirectory Template For 2.x

Author : AllyDirectory

Fo PHPLD Version : V2.2 and V2.1.2

Demo : http://www.boogledirectory.info/

Download : http://www.allydirectory.com/downloads/Boogle.zip

As the name says it is very elegant looking phpld theme with blue, white and orange color combination with a about us column in right sidebar.

Free PHPLD template Elegance

Author : AllyDirectory

For PHPLD Version : v2.1.2 and v2.2.0

Demo : http://www.trafficdir.info/

Download : http://www.allydirectory.com/downloads/Elegance.zip