There are many free and paid internet marketing tools available on the internet; too many in fact. It is sometimes hard to sort through them and decide on which ones would be effective marketing tools. Here are a few of our top-picks for search engine optimization, ppc management, and other online advertising related websites.
This is a free online tool that can help you research keywords. You can type in a keyword phrase and it will list related phrases as well as the number of times the keyword phrase was searched the previous month. The biggest drawbacks is the results can be somewhat misleading sometimes and it only lets you put in one phrase at a time.
Overture Keyword Selector Tool >>
Wordtracker costs money unfortunately; however I have found it to be worth the investment. Wordtracker is very similar to the overture keyword tool but is more powerful. It takes information from meta crawlers such as hotbot.com and some of the smaller search engines to estimate the number of times it was searched last month. It will also give reports on how many websites are competing for that specific keyword phrase.
Wordtracker Keyword Research >>