Keyword research tools

What are the cool kids using for keyword research nowadays? I haven't really done any serious keyword research in a few years and now everything's changed on me. Can anyone recommend some good (preferably free) sites where I can do some basic keyword search volume analysis?

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com

I only do keyword research for comparative analysis, and this is the tool I use.

I don't ever bother to try to do traffic prediction, because I've never seen it possibly be accurate.

I agree, the important is your chosen keywords must be related to your website.

Thanks!

A good strategy perhaps is using different tools and then creating the top words lists and then taking a look at the top Google ranking websites to determine which additional words webmasters are using for promoting their sites over the net. It might not be a good tactic targeting the main terms all the time.

Hi,

i just yse the google tools, keyword/trends

dave

blimey my spelling really bad, I meant 'use' as you can guess,

dave

By the for my keyword research tool for my keyword on page optimization, use this tool >>>>>> https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.

I use the google adwords tool as well and compare with Market Samurai, but ditto, doesn't every seem to be accurate.

Wordtracker is good. I like to contrast it with Google Adwords Keyword Tool. I utilized the Site Build It program to construct my website and find effective keywords.

I've lots of good things about Wordtracker, but most people (including me) prefer Google adwords keyword tool.

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Originally Posted by bermuda

A good strategy perhaps is using different tools and then creating the top words lists and then taking a look at the top Google ranking websites to determine which additional words webmasters are using for promoting their sites over the net. It might not be a good tactic targeting the main terms all the time.

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I think this is the best suggestion, but I this can be very time consuming process.