keyword research tools

[karonthackston]

Wordtracker does not provide daily search counts or other daily metrics. They haven't done this in over 2 years.

All WT metrics are annually. If you click the question mark beside the searches column, it explains the following:

"'Searches' is the number of times that the keyword has been searched for in our partner search engines in the US.

The data currently contains 558,778,307 searches over 365 days."

The same applies to their free keyword tool.

Please keep in mind that all data from all keyword research tools is a representative sample, not actual search counts. This is clearly explained on WT's site, Keyword Discovery's site and many others. There simply is no way the keyword research tool could physically house all the searches from all the people even in just 1 country, much less globally. Even Google's free kwr tool offers representative samples. (Which is also stated on their site.)

[PDX Guy]

I am a huge fan of Market Samurai for my non-Site Build It sites. My two big web sites are through Site Build It, who uses a modified version of WordTracker, which is very nice.

The only issue I've had with Market Samurai is on my Vista laptop. It would seem that Vista and Adobe Air don't play well together. So it's not the software itself, but anything that uses Air on a Vista OS.

I made a video on YouTube about a work-around that danced around the problem and got it working. So, now I can use it on my laptop, but if and when the problem will be resolved is anyone's guess.

Aside from that, Market Samurai is the bomb!

[MikeF421]

Has anyone else been having issues with Market Samurai's Rank Tracker? I'm getting some funky results lately. It is telling me I have listings at #5 in Google, for example, but when I go to Google myself, I can't find the listing anywhere.

I've cleared my cache on the web browser and made sure I was logged out of any Google accounts. Have tried 3 different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, SeaMonkey), and hit the same thing with each one.

[SEOArbiter]

I prefer and always recommend the Google keyword tool.

[Jane]

Thanks for starting the thread Stephen ... Its brought up lots of brilliant links to pursue ...

Would really like to read that MS review Lynn ...

[Kai Druhl]

I think the tool depends on what you are doing keyword research for. If you are looking for a niche, use Micro Niche Finder or Market Samurai. If you want long tail keywords, use Market Samurai or Google's keyword tool (use it form you adwords account, you get 800 keywords rather than just 100). If you want SEO in a more competitive market, use SEO Quake for Firefox.

[Ryzon]

I personally love to use the standard google keyword tool for the basic research.

But, if I want to do some deep research, I go for Market Samurai. Even the free trial version kicks ass!

[Jane]

I think the tool depends on what you are doing keyword research for. If you are looking for a niche, use Micro Niche Finder or Market Samurai. If you want long tail keywords, use Market Samurai or Google's keyword tool (use it form you adwords account, you get 800 keywords rather than just 100). If you want SEO in a more competitive market, use SEO Quake for Firefox.

Hi Kai

I've installed SEO Quake and I use FF on a Mac ... but there seems to be a cutting and pasting issue since installing it ... have you heard of that one before? Its quite random ... but wouldn't let me copy and paste a bit-ly link into a yahoo email. Have now deleted the add-on and rebooted but its still present and causing a problem. Any ideas how to get rid of it? Thanks

[murph]

I am using Market Samurai but I would say that it takes a bit of getting used to!

[stormy]

I use Market Samurai, Keyword Tool Dominator and Niche Refinery.
Liz