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Keyword Tools – Favourites

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:20:56 +0000

If you are not driving traffic to your blog – you are getting traffic through organic search engine results. Using keyword tools can improve you ranking in the results. Here are a few of my favorites – including my personal most favorite – Scribe. Not all of these four are free – and yet for me – I have found them easy to use – which makes them useful.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool because Google’s contextual targeting technology can automatically match your keywords (ads) to web pages in Google’s Display Network that are most relevant to your business – Google Adwords can help you do so may things. Including finding JV partners – and learning how others are using the keywords to their advantage.

I give my a huge thumbs up to Scribe. I have been using it since February – and it has made a tremendous different to how I set up my own blog. It’s simple and it’s actually fun to use. It’s like a learning tool for best SEO practices. Scribe is a plug in for word press (and it works for Joomla and Dropul). It’s not free – but – for a coach who doesn’t have a lot of extra time – provides huge value. In addition to the integrated keyword assistance – it has the additional benefits of helping you to do things like advance keyword research and linking in sites and social media. Scribe’s semantic analysis, also saves me time – because I can get useful takes in seconds – instead of needing to spend time deciding on tags. I actually am at the point now that I can’t think of being without this tool.

WordTracker is excellent for helping you to find and dig deep into the ‘long tail’ of keywords. Which of course makes it easier for you to rank closer to the top of the page for that keyword string. Wordtracker has a free trial that is worth the taking.

SPyfu subscribers and free-access visitors start at the same point. Go to http://spyfu.com and start with the search box. Enter your domain or keyword. Your free access to the site opens a bunch of results :

Stats of the domain’s spending, clicks per day and organic value from their content
Ten Best Paid Keywords during each month
First 10 paid keywords
Top ad competitors
First 10 organic keywords from the most recent month
Top organic competitors

Stats of the keyword’s cost per click, clicks per day, search volume and search results

This can be lovely information for keyword research because when you know how much a keyword costs, you can take that into account when you are writing search optimized content for your website. If a keyword is cheap and gets very little traffic, all things being equal, you probably don’t need to include it in your content. On the other hand if it would be expensive to buy the traffic on the keyword, you should definitely consider trying to get that traffic organically and include it in you content.

Ads run on this keyword
Top 50 organic results on this keyword
Categories to lead you to related keywords
View the cached page of the results page we used to capture this data.

With a paid subscription, you can see how different changes reveal the advertiser’s strategy.

If in the end you have way more time on your hands – and you are looking for a more expansive list of keyword tools;you could always check out this Gigantic List of keyword tools.

Happy Keywording!

Alphabetical Listing of Tools and Resources

admin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:54:47 +0000

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Mind Mapping

Admin — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:26:05 +0000

Some Popular Mind Mapping Software Applications

BrainMine – mind mapping software
Buzan’s iMindMap -mind mapping software – for creative folks, create your own drawings
ConceptDraw MINDMAP – mind mapping software- compatible with MS Office
HeadCase – Visually appealing mind mapping software – similar to Buzan’s IMindMap
Mind Pad – a user version mind mapping solution
MindApp -mind mapping software program
MindGenius – mind mapping software
Mindjet – MindManager mind mapping software **Excellent*** On screen mapping and collaboration, works well with personal brain, MS Outlook
MindMapper – mind mapping software – some bells and whistles like Gantt charts
Mindmapping, concept mapping in 3D – mind mappers needing room to stretch, the extraordinary clarity of its 3D landscapes
MindVisualizer – Similar look and feel to Mindjet’s Mind Manager- may be easier for some to use.
NovaMind- NovaMind Platinum is for power Mind Mappers, exports well to powerpoint.
OpenMind- Similar to Mindjet’s Mind Manager – works well for project planning
SMART Ideas -Concept mapping software
ThoughtMapper – Mind Mapping Software connects with MS Outlook and Powerpoint
Visual Mind : a corporate mind mapping software – easy to learn, collaborate
XMIND : Open source, Mind mapping sofware

Web Based Mind Mapping Systems

Mapul :Organic Mind Maps in an online solutions
Mind42.com – A collaborative browser-based online mind mapping too
WiseMapping -Wise Mapping is the web mind mapping tool that leverages the power of Mind Maps mixing new technologies like vectorial languages (SVG and VML) and the power of the whole Web 2.0 concept
MindMeister: online mapping tool – has a free version with limited use – pay by month for premium versions – post maps to blogs, collaborate.

A little note for Mac users:

Mind Mapping software that works with Mac’s:Buzan’s iMindMap, concept Draw MindMap, Mindjet, Freemind

Here is a collection of various miscellaneous mind mapping links

http://www.mindmapperusa.com/products.htm

About mindmapping

A concept map about concept maps

http://tinyurl.com/539kw

An introduction into Process Mapping

http://www.isixsigma.com/tt/process_mapping/

Process Mapping and Process Flow Charting

http://www.process-mapping.co.uk/

Work Flow Mapping