Bye Bye Yahoo Keyword Tool…

It’s been recently announced that the Yahoo keyword selector tool is being taken down to the dismay of thousands of people who use the tool frequently to find keyword popularity.

In this video you’ll find out about some viable free keyword tool alternatives like www.wordtracker and www.keyworddiscovery.com They will help give you a better understanding of the most popular keywords to target from your website.

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A useful keyword refining tool that I like to use that’s not mentioned in the video is found at: http://www.kwbrowse.com

It’s a great resource for finding lateral search keywords that are related to your search term. For instance searching for the term “research tool” in the browser turns up related keywords like market research tool, stock research tool and isi researchsoft along an x axis.

The keyword chart display provides the related search terms on two axis. Each axis is different with one containing words that are similar to your search term and and the other branch contains your search word in its phrase. You’ll find the most relevant keywords in the center of the axis and you’ll be able to follow terms by clicking on them to dig deeper.

For keyword results displayed in an unconventional way try this interesting word cloud keyword research tool which can be found at: http://quintura.com/

There you’ll be able to find popular searched words that are related to a single word in the form of a wordcloud. This tool is useful to quickly find related keywords and by hovering over words you’ll be able to instantly look at their most common associated keywords.