5 Free Keyword Research Tools Taking It To Another Level

In keyword research your biggest strength is your brain. Unfortunately it’s also your biggest weakness! I find that there’s always lots of keyword variations that I’m unable to come up with through regular brainstorming.

Asking friends and family for help just takes too much time. Instead, to do great keyword research you just need great tools. What you need is tools that will find the more or less related keywords and variations that you’re unable to come up with by yourself. So here’s 5 free tools that has helped me expand my keyword lists.

1. Quintura
   Provides a windows application and an online tool that offers a visual map of keywords that are contextually related to your search query. The way it works seems pretty much like LSI / latent semantic indexing.
2. Ontology Finder
   A nice simple tool that checks the top 1000 Google results for your query by doing a related keyword query. It then returns the related keywords that was found.
3. AdCenter Search Funnel
   A tool from Microsoft which shows how users refine their searches. With this tool you’ll quickly be able to gather some related keywords that you probably hadn’t thought of.
4. Clusty Cloud
   This tool makes a tag cloud with related keywords. Not all keywords it suggest are really related but for some queries it gives some rather decent results.
5. Adwords Site-Related Keywords
   The well-known keyword suggestion tool from Google, which has the ability to suggest related keywords based on a URL or a text you provide it with. It returns a lot of keywords but often a lot of the keywords doesn’t provide much traffic.

You should always do your own brainstorming first. Then afterwards use the tools above to expand your keyword list by looking up related keywords for your own suggestions.