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 are claiming its the be all and end all of research tools. But when I can tell someone, “Choose a green phrase in with medium-sized to large letters”, well it can’t get much more simple than that!

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