Keyword Tools - Popular Search Terms - Niche SEO

Google Video Adsense Ads

2006-05-23T08:31:00.000-07:00

Google announced late on Monday that they will be expanding their popular AdSense online advertising program into a new avenue offering online video advertisements. Is this a wise move for Google? Some are saying that Google is getting a little bit too big for its boots, so to speak, in its mission to boost its revenue even more.

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AdSense Change to ads about

2006-05-21T09:29:00.000-07:00

It looks like Google AdSense is playing around with a new feature inside larger ad formats. Several webmasters have noticed a "Change ads to..." and a list of other links at the side or bottom of their AdSense ads. Infact I just found one of my ads with a text box and submit button inside of it so you can type for the ads you want to see! Wow. Take a look:

AdSense FireFox Extension

2006-05-21T05:41:00.000-07:00

Just discovered this little Mozilla Firefox plugin which shows you how much you are earning, your total AdSense impressions and clicks from your AdSense account all in the bottom corner of your browser.

For those of you, like me, who check their AdSense account every 30minutes via Google, this should hopefully save you a lot of time and curiosity! I would still recommend checking your AdSense account every now and then though, say at least once a day, to check your channels and where your ad clicks are cominf from to improve your earnings and ad optimisation where it is needed.

Link: http://code.mincus.com/3/adsense-notifier/

Keyword Research Tools

2006-05-20T11:03:00.000-07:00

Digital Point - Keyword Suggestion Tool

This useful tool from digital point will show you results for your keyphrase from both Wordtracker and Overture which will determine how popular these phrases are in terms of number of searches every day. Even better, you will be shown related key phrases and words and their daily search count.

Link: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

Good Keywords - Downloadable .exe

Good Keywords is free Windows software which aims to find the perfect set of keywords for you and your website. It is just a 500KB download and completely safe to download and use. This is a very useful tool which can save you a lot of research time.

As well as keyword research, this tool will also show you your site popularity (using Alexa) and your link popularity - the number of websites that link to yours.

Link: http://www.goodkeywords.com

Google Trends

Straight out of Google Labs, this Google Trends tool is still in development. However it is still provides exciting results for analysing how search terms have fluctuated in popularity over time. Therefore you will be able to note which keywords are in decline and which are experiencing good growth with Google's search engine.

Google Trends also enables you to graphically compare search terms on the same image. For some terms you are also shown Google news items which involve the keywords entered over the period shown.

Due to this tool still being in development, you may find that many of the niche terms, which are relatively unpopular, do not provide results when entered in the 'Search Trends' box. Instead you will get "Your terms - keywords - do not have enough search volume to show graphs."
Google Trends does not provide you with actual search figures for your terms either - just a relative fluctuation.

Link: http://www.google.com/trends

Niche Watch - Keyword Competition Checker

"Find exactly which competitors are there for your niche keywords and gain better search engine placement by targeting the technical aspects."

Type in a keyword or phrase and you will be shown the top 20 websites, or competition, for that search term.

Link: http://www.nichewatch.com

Overture Keyword Selector Tool

Enter a search term of keyword into the input box and this page will generate suggestions related to your keyword query along with an estimation of the number of searches conducted for each term last month. This tool was actually developed to help advertisers recognize popular keywords for their marketing.

Other useful tools

eBay Keywords - Popular keywords used on eBay in alphabetical order.
SEOchat - Keyword Difficulty Check (How hard will it be to rank well with a keyword?)
SEOchat - Keyword Suggestions

Popular Search Tools

2006-05-20T10:11:00.000-07:00

Google Zeitgeist: Search patterns, trends, and surprises

Weekly list of the top 15 gaining search queries from Google.

Pulling together interesting search trends and patterns requires Google's human and computing power together. Search statistics are automatically generated based on the millions of searches conducted on Google over a given period of time - weekly, monthly, and annually. With some help from humans, and a pigeon or two when they have time, these statistics and trends make their way from the depths of Google's hard drives to become the Google Zeitgeist report.

We should note that in compiling the Zeitgeist, no individual searcher's information is available or accessible to us. What you see here is a cumulative snapshot of interesting queries people are asking – some over time, some within country domains, and some on Google.com – that perhaps reveal a bit of the human condition. We appreciate the contribution all Google users make to these fascinating bits of information.

Link: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

AOL Hot Searches

Daily top 20 searches conducted on the AOL websearch engine. Also more detailed search terms and phrases for major categories such as music, games and movies.

Link: http://hotsearches.aol.com/search/hotsearch.jsp

Dogpile Search Spy Tool

Realtime search phrases being inputted into DogPile's search engine. You can choose from Filtered or Unfiltered real-time searches on the front page. Once you have selected that, you can see what people are searching for on DogPile immediately! Avery cool and interesting tool.

Link: http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/

Lycos Weekly Top 50 Search Terms

Funny how "Mother's Day" is #1 search term on Lycos in late May! View the top 50 search terms submitted via the classic Lycos search engine.

Link: http://50.lycos.com/

MSN Search Insider

A flash webpage providing an insight into the terms being searched for via the MSN search engine. Features Dual search terms with a comparison of popularity between each pair. Also the Top 200 searches, but only 10 random phrases are shown at one time. You can also see the top 10 search term movers in television, sport and music.

Link: http://www.imagine-msn.com/insider/

SearchKing

Top 25 keywords generated from independent portals.

Yahoo! Buzz Index

Rank of the 8 leading search terms (or subjects) calculated by "buzz scores". Also the top phrase movers overall and by individual categories such as actors, movies and video games.

Link: http://buzz.yahoo.com/