Keyword research tools: you might wonder why results from Wordtracker don’t match the results found in Google AdWords. Find out more, here.

Overall, there are two things to consider about these keyword research tools:

1. No search tool provides perfect figures.
2. Wordtracker and Google AdWords are not measuring the exact same thing.

Wordtracker keyword research tool

To get search figures, Wordtracker gathers slightly less than 1% of organic search data, from the past year, from meta search engines (Dogpile and Metacrawler). Meta search engines gather data from multiple search engines, such as Google and Bing, and aggregate the data into one source.

To get its search numbers, Wordtracker then estimates how much of the traffic from meta search engines must have come from Google, based on the percentage of the market that Google holds. The Wordtracker search figure is then calculated based on that percentage. In other words, if 100 searches are found from the meta search engines and Google holds a 70% market share, then Google would report a search number of 70.

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Keyword research is the core of your search engine optimization strategy – and your SEO copywriting strategy. Here is a method for efficiently researching keywords on a large site.

On a small site, it’s fairly easy to research keywords for all of the products and services found there. But when a site is large, it can be far too time consuming to do the kind of in-depth research that you’d like – and yet, you don’t want to miss out on any golden opportunities. What’s the solution?

Thanks to the great quality of today’s keyword research tools, you can quickly get a high-level look at possibilities for a product or service.

Let’s say that you want to research keywords for a site with hundreds of branded products. You don’t want to guess which brands have the most traffic – or which have the best longtail keyword opportunities. So, what do you do?

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Spring is coming – so it’s time to freshen up your website by once again choosing keywords for your site and updating your web page content.

When was the last time that you conducted keyword research on your site? If the answer is a year – or more – then it’s definitely time to repeat the process. First, rerun all the keyphrases that you’ve been using. (The Search Guru provides links to terrific free keyword research tool options.)

What changes do you notice in your keyword research results? Why do you think those changes are occurring? What do they mean to your business?

For example, perhaps you’ve been featuring the luxury version of your product, because keyword research had previously indicated that there was significant interest in that product line. Perhaps, in today’s more uncertain economy, fewer people are searching for the luxury version of your product – but there is much stronger search traffic now on another product line of yours. How will this change your business – and search – strategies?

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What if there was a free keyword research tool that let you find out what questions people had about your areas of expertise? Well, there is!

Wordtracker provides a free keyword research tool called Keyword Questions that is quick and easy to use. You simply enter a phrase and, in return, you get a list of questions that people have asked about that phrase.

Let’s say that you’re an accountant. This time of year, people are starting to organize material for their income taxes and are looking for helpful information online. If they find the information that they need on your site – in other words, if they find the answers to their questions – then you’ve got an excellent opportunity to also sell them on your services.

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How “green” is your site? Your keywords’ supply and demand changes and your site should too.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is a mantra for those who are environmentally aware. But it should be a mantra for those who do SEO as well. When you check a website for keywords, you should also occasionally recheck the old keywords.

Knowing how to pick keywords for a site is important, but you need to make sure that those keywords remain useful to your site. Your sites’ keywords supply and demand can rise and fall in relation to trends and seasonal changes. The ideal amount of keywords found in summer may not be as effective in winter or if you check a website for keywords one year, a year later they may not be as effective.
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