Saturday, January 17, 2009

5 Free Keyword Finders For Beginning Internet Marketers

By Don Lawson

One of the many chores an Internet Marketer must do is keyword research. This is the act of finding profitable words search engine users are typing into the search engines to find products and services. If you ever hope to make money online, you must become proficient at finding these money making words. Fortunately, there are free tools that you can use online.

There are many excellent keyword research tools available to the affiliate marketer. Many of these will cost you anywhere from $50 per month to a one time cost of $150 or more. But the frugal marketer can save that money and invest it somewhere else by using free keyword research tools.

So go get these five keyword tools to help you get started grabbing those long tailed keywords that will make you money.

Google has an excellent keyword tool that many marketers use to find valuable niches. This keyword tool will be invaluable if you're building Adsense sites. This tool can tell you how much advertisers are paying for each click. This will give you an idea of how much you can expect to earn for each click from Adsense.

Another great keyword tool you'll want to visit is SEO Book. This keyword tool pulls statistics for each keyword from various sources and search engines. You can drill down and find even more hidden niches with this tool. Try this tool the next time you need more in-depth statistics for your keyword list.

Another free keyword tool that many marketers have been using for years is WordTracker. The best I can remember, it was one of the first programs on the market to help Internet Marketers discover hidden keywords that search engine users were using to find products and services. WordTracker comes in both a paid and free versions. Beginners will find the free version quite adequate for their needs.

Another free software program you'll want to try is Good Keywords. This is a free program you download to your laptop or desktop. It has several powerful features. One of them is the ability to search for misspellings. Internet Marketers who use Pay Per Click programs to make money online have been using misspellings in their ad campaigns for a long time to bring in the big money.

WordPot is yet another free keyword research tool you'll want to look at. This is a web based program that helps people find keywords. It has several valuable features such as the ability to see synonyms, related words to the keyword you're using and even associated words that relate to the keyword you using. Some alternate keywords can bring in as much, if not more, traffic than the main keyword.

With a little practice, keyword research is a breeze. The more you practice, the better you'll become at finding those long tailed keywords and keyword phrases that will make you money. Now that you know where to get the tools for free, what are you waiting on? Get out and find you some profitable keywords and start building sites around them!

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