A Fantastic Free Keyword Tool, The Google Adwords Keyword Generator
The best free keyword tool around today is without any doubt the Google Adwords keyword generator. The Google adwords keyword tool is free for anyone to use and is readily available at this url:
It is very simple to use:
1) Type in your keyword
2) Type the “captcha” characters that are displayed
3) Read and export results
You can even use several options:
1) Target a specific Google search engine country
2) Generate keyword ideas
3) Generate keywords from a specific websites’ content
4) Use synonyms or not
The catch is that this can quickly become very time consuming, long, tedious and boring work. After a couple of hours, the keywords become meaningless and one is wasting time.
That is why software developers have created programs that can make use of Google’s’ online tool in a much faster and efficient way. I must also mention that Google really doesn’t like this type of software.
Why? Because it makes use of a software technique that is referred to as “screen scraping”, which means that if the information can be read on your screen, there is also a way of capturing this data and making use of it.
It used to be that html coders would make use of restriction code tags to prevent users from, let’s say, cut and paste text from the browser or open the source code of the page that was on display. But these restrictions infuriated a good number of people to such an extent that they quickly found a way around these restrictions.
Google has branded screen scraping as an illegal way mining data from their servers. Google considers this data to be theirs and they also give themselves the right to determine how this data can be acquired. After all, it does cost them millions of dollars to keep the endless rows of servers that service this data running properly, they do have a point.
It is not that Google doesn’t want to make this information available, quite the contrary. You can have all the server data you want as long as you acquire it legally. After all, they have invested considerable sums to compile the information.
It doesn’t seem unreasonable for them to ask a price for it, as it is rather obvious that whomever can interpret the data correctly will undoubtedly gain some or other advantage from it.
Anyway, clever software coders have found a way of obtaining this data and making it available to anyone who is willing to take the risk. Making use of it in the wrong way can get your IP banned by Google. Whatever you do, remain within the limits of the law.
One of these is Keyword Research Pro and among the competition, it stands out head and shoulders above all others. There are several reasons for this.
1) It is a stand alone desktop application
2) You pay for it only once
3) In- and Export functions are automated
4) It is a lot faster than online browser searching
5) Profitable keywords are immediately apparent
6) It allows you to evaluate Pay Per Click costs
7) It queries other search engine data bases such as Yahoo and MSN
This listing of advantages could go on and on, but you will be better served to go straight to the website and watch a video demonstration of what it all can do. You’ll probably want to thank me later.
