December 4th, 2006
In addition to some of the past keyword analysis tools I blogged about there have appeared a few more that I need to mention. Those keyword tools that should help us to beat our competition.
1. Dontdelete.com – keyword database accidentally released by AOL:
AOL Keyword Searches
AOL has released search data to the public. This includes over 20 million search queries from 658,000 of AOL’s users. Apparently 658,000 AOL users are estimated to be around 1.5% of the total Google search population. This data is from March 1 2006 – June 1 2006.
The data is correct; it is not any kind of estimation or guess. And you should definitely check your keywords – probably you are missing some high volume search phrases.
2. I have referred to so-called long tail theory. It is widely applied in the Internet business and there is no surprise that keyword research niche has got a tool of this kind – HitTail.com. The service is in beta and free.
How it works? It is a sort of an analytics tool, but with a twist. A simple diagram describes the process:
There are a few tabs, each has ‘Help’ that describes how to benefit from the information the service gathers and makes available to you. I am not yet sure what keyword phrases are good for blogging from the suggestion keyword list. In the ‘to-do’ help the developers refer to some GREEN score that is an indicator the keyword phrase is good for building new content around it, but I can’t trace that green score. Probably, none of my suggestion keywords are good for blogging yet?
Summary: In my opinion, both tools are of practical value, their data is based on facts that make them worth using.
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