Free Keyword Tool – Quick and Simple Way to Research Keywords

I set up a blog for one of my clients the other day. After a rather long winded chat about why it is important to research keywords for articles and blog posts, I was left scratching my head on how could I make things simple until they were in a position for either spending money on professional keyword research software or grasping the concept of researching keywords manually.

The problem was my client was suffering a classic case of information overload. After getting over the fear of the Internet, accepting that the world wide web wont crash if he makes a mistake and learning how to post on WordPress, his brain was well and truly frazzled.

It was a reminder on how much of a learning curve writing for the internet actually is!

I needed simple and free tool that didn’t have a huge learning curve to ease him into researching and writing.

While I was looking around for an easy to use and understand free keyword tool, I stumbled upon Keyword Eye. It is rather nifty and very, very simple.

Basically, you put in your keyword idea and it returns results in a familiar tag cloud formation (or a pie chart if you select that option). The larger the font, the more searched for the term, hover your mouse over the word for actual search volume. The words are colour coded too – green for low competition, orange for medium and red for high.

There is an advanced search where you can change your Country option, select volume parameters and ignore certain terms etc.

Keyword Eye is a free keyword research tool that is ideal for gathering keyword ideas for your articles at a glance. Of course neither Keyword Eyes developers nor I will be claiming its the be all and end all of research tools. But, when I can give an instruction like, “Choose green phrases in a medium to large sized font”, well it can’t get much more simple that that!

Do you need to know more about researching keywords? Download my free guide – here

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2 Comments

Russ Barnstein

April 1, 2011 at 3:03 am | Permalink

Your post makes a lot of great points, but I often get tired of trying to explain SEO in order to teach people to write for optimization. There are lots of great writers out there who can’t write SEO at all, and there are lots of crappy writers who properly optimize their garbage. I think if you write truly high quality content, it’s likely to at least partially optimize itself. Ultimately, you don’t need to know much about SEO in order to write highly optimized articles. I have a very simple strategy that I have been using quite successfully that I would like to share with you here: http://www.contentforconversions.com/article-writing-tips-how-to-write-seo-articles-right/

It’s a simple SEO article writing strategy, but it has brought us great success here for our own needs and the needs of our clients. Thanks for the post and keep up the great content.

-Russ
Jan

April 3, 2011 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

You are right Russ. If you write naturally the content often optimises itself. I have found that you tend to get less effective results when you try too hard.