Keyword Tools For You Soldiers: Free Resources

By Jamie Holt | June 29, 2008 .

It Has to be said, that the number one skill for any marketer to learn is keyword research, if you ain’t mastering this art… there is a good chance you’ll fall flat on your face before you even get this thing into first gear..

I’m not saying it is the only way to succeed and you must only do this to make it, but it is a vitally important element in creating an income online via affiliate marketing. I personally endorse all of the below tools for your keyword research, I don’t benefit from pointing you to them.. but I know they all work splendidly for me and thousands of other marketers across the globe. So with no further messing around, here goes:

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/
http://www.vretoolbar.com/keywords/

And then there is the all powering gtrends addition to wordtracker:

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends/

But I must add here, as I always do…that keyword tools can NEVER be 100% accurate, they are to be used as a guide for your research to give you an estimate of what possible searches are being made and the competition out there for your selected words.. The most powerful keyword tool EVER is YOUR BRAIN… because you can think like a consumer, put yourself in the shoes of your potential market and think like them.. Keyword tools are for comparing and analysing..not to be your only method of keyword generation.

Sometimes, you won’t find out the productivity of a keyword until you put it out there and test your results.

Aside from those above, you could shoot onto my list at the top of the page and get my free desktop keyword tool that works right from your computer..