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What tools do you use to find out the best keywords?

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Good starting suggestions from and the members who replied — , , , and . Below is a compact, practical workflow and a few troubleshooting tips to turn those initial ideas into a repeatable keyword-selection process that works long term.

  • Build a seed list: collect product names, frequent customer questions, internal site-search queries and forum terms. Aim for 10–30 seeds that reflect real user language.
  • Expand and cluster: use suggestion and related-search features, competitor pages, and community language to generate long-tail variants. Group keywords by topic and likely user intent (informational, commercial, transactional, navigational).
  • Prioritize by intent and feasibility: prioritize phrases with clear commercial or conversion intent for landing pages. For content/brand-building, pick informational long tails that match user questions. Weight intent highest, then estimated volume, then competition/difficulty.
  • Quick validation: before investing, manually inspect the SERP for each top target — look for dominated results (big brands, shopping boxes, or heavy ads). If the SERP is full of authoritative sites, deprioritize or target a more specific long tail.
  • Measure and iterate: test with focused landing pages or posts, then use analytics and on-site search data to see which phrases actually drive clicks and conversions. Replace purely-estimated volume with real behavior over time.

Troubleshooting tips: when tools disagree, trust your own site analytics and the live SERP. Avoid chasing high-volume head terms unless you can convert them. And mix quick wins (low-competition long tails) with a few strategic, higher-effort head terms for long-term growth.

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Daniweb's own famed member Aaron Wall, AKA SEOBook has an AWESOME keyword suggestion tool. It uses overture, google, wordtracker, and other data sources. Since URL dropping is not allowed, I'll let you guess the URL :-D (hint: click on "tools" on the top nav bar)

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Try this one:

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