Some Excellent Keyword Research Tool

Keyword research is one of the most important, valuable, and high return activities in the search marketing field. Ranking for the "right" keywords can make or break your website. Through the detective work of puzzling out your market's keyword demand, you not only learn which terms and phrases to target with SEO, but also learn more about your customers as a whole.

It's not always about getting visitors to your site, but about getting the right kind of visitors. The usefulness of this intelligence cannot be overstated - with keyword research you can predict shifts in demand, respond to changing market conditions, and produce the products, services, and content that web searchers are already actively seeking. In the history of marketing, there has never been such a low barrier to entry in understanding the motivations of consumers in virtually every niche.Some tools are given below:

AdWords Keyword Tools

Generate keywords from a seed keywords or enter a list to obtain search volume and other data points.

Google Analytics

Look at the keywords that drive traffic – especially historical data before the onset of (not provided). Matched Search Queries – the keywords a searcher typed before clicking on an AdWords ad.

Google Correlate

Find searches that correlate with real-world data.

Google Search

Look at related searches at bottom.

Google Suggest

Don’t hit enter when you start searching. Thanks to Wil Reynolds.

Google Trends

Get idea of up or down trend & also look at hot trends for new ideas.

Google Webmaster Tools queries

Look for striking distance keywords. Export for further analysis in Excel or other tools.

Keyword Eye

Free section requires signup.

Keyword Spy

Organic & paid info. Recently added killer backlink analysis.

Keyword Tool

Like Ubersuggest: get 750 google keyword suggestions for free.

Lexipedia

Create “wonder wheels” of related terms – hover for definitions.

Local Keyword Tool

Local SEO keyword research tool – enter Zip & KEYWORD, get list of KEYWORD plus local cities.

Market Samurai

Research a list of keywords you enter or enter a seed keyword to generate related keywords; huge amount of associated metrics is available.

Merge Words

Concatenation tool.

Meta Glossary

Get definitions and related terms for keyword research.

Moz Keyword Difficulty Tool

Keyword difficulty tool.

Moz On-page Grader

Grade a page for a keyword.

SEMrush

Enter site: get keyword list export, organic or paid

SEO Chat

Keyword suggestion tool.

SEO Chat Keyword Suggest Tool

Like Ubersuggest, you can generate lists of related keywords using a root term. Need to play with this, check it out.

Social mention

Download top keywords; use wordle/compose to create word cloud to visualize. Hat tip to Ben Lloyd.

Sonar Solo

Visualize social trends.

Spyfu

Organic & paid info.

Suggester

Suggester is another free tool like Ubersuggest where you can input a seed term and generate variations – download to CSV is desired.

Tag Crowd

Make your own tag cloud from any text.

Topsy

Enter keyword, look at trends & spikes.

Trend Hunter

Trend Hunter.

Ubersuggest

Generate list of keywords from seed; enter into AdWords tool for volume etc.

Wordle

Create word clouds.

Wordstream

Generate keywords – paid tool.

Wordstream Free Keyword Tools

In addition to its paid offerings, Wordstream offers a suite of free keyword tools offering access to thousands of keyword suggestions.

Wordtracker

Generate keywords – paid tool.

Yahoo Glimmer

“An RDF Search Engine”.

Yelp Trends

Yelp Trends tool.

YouTube AutoSuggest

Just like Google Autocomplete.