A proper Keyword research is the most essential ingredient of a successful SEO campaign. An expertise keyword research professional can very well determine the fate of your search engine rankings. So keyword research is the vital part of SEO which needs to be done with care, patience and skil.

Keyword research mainly includes the identification of the right keywords which are more suitable for your website, so that your website gets more chances for ranking in search engines for the selected keywords. After finalizing the keyword research process, you just need to start optimizing your website for these keywords.

Keyword research needs to be done with much precision and you need to study a lot about the website and the industry the website is related to. While doing a keyword research you should also need to take care of other factors affecting keywords such as location, seasonality etc. Most of the time keyword research is a semi automated process which requires manual research as well as automated work with the help of various tools.

There are quite a good list of keyword research tools and the first one that comes to my mind is the Google Keyword research tool which is very much easy to use and free of cost. This keyword tool gives search information for keywords such as its search volume, Avg CPC, competition etc. But these results are mainly based on Google search results. To get search results based on the other major search engines you needs to go further with some good paid keyword research tools.

Trellian is one such company which offers one of the best keyword research tools and I have found it really effective. It offers you one of the best keyword research and discovery tool known as KeywordDiscovery. I have been using it for the past few years along with other paid tools and I have found Trellian really useful and effective. Trellian offers a trial version of the Keyword Discovery Tool and if your are satisfied with the trial version then you can download the complete version for better keyword research.

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Google is one of the major platform for online marketing as it is the most used search engine worldwide with high efficiency and accuracy. Google is the main stage for all the online marketing and market research activities for online professionals, webmasters, SEOs etc. The main part of Google is that they offer various tools for market research which makes the job much easier and flexible.  These market research tools by Google helps you to stay afloat and updated with the ever changing internet trends. So in order to become a successful online marketing professional one must make the habit of using these online research tools in the proper way. So I would like to tell you something about the main 5 market research tools offered by Google, that I use for my online marketing campaigns.

1)  Google Suggest
Google Suggest is another tool by Google which is mainly used for keyword research. Earlier it was run as a separate tool by Google, but there days all the functions of Google Suggest is integrated with Google Search. So for this, you just need to go to Google.com and start typing your keywords in the text box. Google will then start to show related and most possible list of Keywords as a drop down. The more specific keywords you type the more specific list it would be showing. This tool has proved very much helpful for me in conducting successful keyword researches.

2)  Google Trends

Google Trends is another useful tool which helps us to compare the popularity of keywords or phrases over a particular time and also over a certain geographical area. You can see the results based on a particular Country, City and Language. Google Trends shows the results for the last 5 years, thus enabling you to check the consistency of a particular keyword or phrase. This tool also helps to compare the search volume of multiple keywords by simply separating the keywords with a comma in the search box.  Google Trends can also be used to know the seasonal popularity of certain keywords and can also be used to know the seasonal trends of a particular keywords or phrases. The tool also shows the main news stories for a particular keyword in the last 5 years. This tool has helped me a lot in making the marketing research and keyword trending analysis for my clients.

3)  Google Alerts
Google Alert tool is a free service offered by the search engine giant Google and is used for getting notified about the latest news, web pages and other market updates related to their keywords, via email. This tool helps you in keeping up to date with the market changes and is very much easy to use.  Google provides 6 types of alerts such as News, Blogs, Comprehensive, Web, Video and Groups. To activate the Google alert, just go to Google Alerts and enter the keyword or a group of keywords separated by OR. Then select the alert Type, How often you need to get the alerts and the email address to which these alerts need to be mailed. Then submit the Create button and you have created a Google Alerts for those keywords. This tool also helps to keep an eye on your competitors.

4)  Google Insights for Search

The Google Insights for Search is another important tool for doing online market research and helps in getting various facts and figures for our online marketing campaign. It can be used to select the proper advertising message, when we have a few keywords in our hand.  Just enter the keywords and select the keyword which shows more interest over the time period. Google Insights for Search can also be used to examine and find the best seasonal keywords. The tool also helps you to make research over various geographical locations, suitable to introducing your product. You would be able to get informative data such as hottest rising keywords, search volume trends, keyword comparison, the Country, State or City where a keyword is popular etc.

5)  Google Adwords Keyword Tool
The Adwords Keyword Tool is another important keyword tool offered by Google and is very useful for your SEO and SEM campaigns. Just enter your keyword or phrases into the box provided and you would get information related to that keyword such as its advertiser competition, local search volume, global monthly search volume, estimated average CPC etc. You can enter more than one keyword or phrases at a time. This tool also helps to get you keywords related to your website content by entering your website URL into the box provided. This is the major tool that is used by SEO professionals for doing keyword research for their website.

And there is one major tool that is not included in the list and that is the Google Search Search Tool. This is nothing but the same tool that we use to search on the net, i.e www.google.com. This is a great tool and can provide insight into many aspect of online marketing. Hope you have enjoyed this post and I would be back with some more in the coming days.

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