keyword research market samurai Keyword Research ToolsThere is so much written about keywords and the importance of choosing the right ones. It depends on your belief and strategy but there are a number of free and paid keyword research tools available to help you.

Keyword research includes finding a list keywords in your niche or related to your product, finding traffic and competition data on keywords along with other data, finding competitor keyword data, finding LSI keywords and much more. Here are some tools that will help you with that.

Free Keyword Tools

Google – External Keyword Tool

Google – Skool

Free Wordtracker Tool

Keyword Spy – This is limited but is definitely useful if you are not ready to invest. Just use the search at the top.

SEOBook Keyword Tool – Just sign up for a free account

Traffic Travis Free – This is a fantastic free tool

Nichbot Classic – this is a really cool tool. You can get top 50 results from Google with search volumes also from Yahoo & MSN, Top 50 Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker Thesaurus and a whole lot of other stuff.

Market Samurai Free Trial – Full version – 7 Day trial. I LOVE the full version and it is more than a keyword tool. It has amazing training, is amazing whether you are SEO or PPC, has SEO Competition, find and publish content, a monetization module, find high quality backlinks… Get It!!!

Keyword Corral

GoRank – Helps find related keywords, a bit like a thesaurus

Paid Keyword Research Tools

Market Samurai – Has a 7 day FREE trial of the Full version. It has targeted features for Adwords or SEO and the amount of analysis available is invaluable. On top of the keywords research tool and analysis, it also has a SEO Competition function to further analyse whether you can compete for the top 10 by Spying on the top rankings DETAILED backlinks. Add to that the Adwords tool, Monetization section, Content section plus cutting edge ‘Dojo’ training videos.

Wordtracker – Has a 7 day FREE trial. Wordtracker is one of the top keyword research tools that the majority of successful marketers use. It can give you thousands of targeted keywords that Google’s free tool will never give you and also scores the keyword with “KEI”… the higher the KEI the easier the keyword is to rank for.  Take the FREE trial and see it in action.

Keyword Elite 2.0

Keyword Discovery

SEMRush – Advanced Keywords and Competitors Research Tool

Traffic Travis

Ultimate Keyword Research Training

For SEO

StomperNet – This is the ultimate internet marketing training and you get so many top tools included, including Market Samurai and has full training on keywords using Market Samurai.

Market Samurai Training – They have some fantastic training on their software but even if you don’t have their software some of the information is helpful (and you can always get the free version). It’s under the ‘Dojo’ section on their site… Click Here for the FREE videos.

Keyword Elite – Brad Callen is amazing and whilst i do not use Keyword Elite 2.0 I have done research and discovered the training that comes with the product is premium.


For PPC

I am yet to find a current top Ultimate PPC keyword training course or module within a course… that is currently available. I will update when I find one.

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Top 3 - Backlinking Tools

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backlinks Backlinks   Getting Backlinks Services and ToolsThere are many strategies for obtaining backlinks… but the aim is to get high page rank links and lots of them which as we know can be time consuming. Here are some invaluable tools, resources and education in this most important area.

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Calculate Your Page Rank with different linking strategies – Click Here! This is a really cool free tool to help plan a linking strategy to ensure you get the highest Page Rank for your most important pages.

One of the best services you can get is Angela’s Backlinks… for $5 a month you get 30 high quality, high PR places you can get back links for and steps on how to get them. You need to get the back links yourself or outsource it.

Link Services

With these you submit articles or blog posts and they get distributed to the network of blogs. Some of these blog networks are built for the company whilst others use blog networks made up of other members or publishers who sign up for content.

Linx BossLinxBoss has Re Open For New Members! – This is an automated back linking service with tracking and flexibility. You get 1000 back links a month for up to 5 sites and you only need to enter in the information once. The links come from PR 2-6 and are over 2 years old all with their own incoming links but none of the sites are interlinked. More automated and cheaper than Linkvana (below) but not as proven and not unlimited.

Linkvana – One of the best due to the fact that the blog network is built within the company so they control the blogs. Their blogs are PR2-5, have tons of inbound links themselves and have good domain age. This ensures the links you get from them are quality links… and you can get unlimited links per month.

Firepower 2.0

Unique Article Wizard

Article Marketing Automation

3 Way Links

Answer Communities

Yahoo Answers

WikiAnswers

Askeet

Answer Bag

Yedda

Buying Backlinks

iSellPR

Text Link Brokers

SitePoint Marketplace

Link Exchange

LinkMetro

Forum Posting

To find forums in your niche…

Big Boards

Forum Find

Web 2.0

LinkedIn – Set up a link in your profile

Squidoo

Hubpages

Flickr

You Tube and other Video Directories

See Web 2.0 Tab for complete list

Do Follow Websites

Comment Kahuna – Use this free tool to find high page rank blogs without DFN enabled and automatically post to those blogs.

Do Follow Social Bookmarking List – 192 Do Follow Social Bookmarking sites with a Page Rank of 3 or Higher?

Do Follow Websites – 66 Do Follow Backlinks from high PR sites

Other Fantastic Tools

SEOBook Link Tools – Analyze your link profile compared to competing websites, and find pages which would be great sources to get links from

Market Samuari – Absolutely incredible tools… You can fully check your competitors and their entire linking campaign… Click here for a free trial!

SoloSEO – Link Building – SoloSEO helps SEO to be easier, by managing keywords, content, and link building all in one place. With SoloSEO you can use professional SEO tools to track, manage, and optimize your site.

Trifector – Measure the strength of pages, blogs and entire domains based on factors inherent to popularity, influence and ranking ability and see your impact compared against others in your industry.

How Many Backlinks Do I Need?

To get first page rankings you very basically need to optimize your site better than the other on Page 1… but how do you find this out? You just need to get the same, or better links than others… or see if you CAN actually compete with them.

Very basic & easy method…

Google your keyword. Then take the url of the top 10 and go to Yahoo Search

Type this into the search box: “link:url.com” << you don’t need quotations. the url.com is the url you want to find the backlinks for.

You will get a result and know how easy it is to compete with them.

Internal Linking and Page Rank

When setting up your website or blog it is also important to understand the power of internal linking and what it can do for Page Rank if performed correctly.

Here is a fantastic free video explanation – Increase Search Engine Rank Without Incoming Links!

Calculate Your Page Rank with different linking strategies – Click Here! (The above video has a short demo of how to use this – it’s towards the end of the video)

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