There are a lot of keyword checkers out there, most of them are free. SOme of them give you a lot more data than others. Some give you many suggestions from input; others check your competition so you can find out where you stand.

Here are so that I have found quite useful.

1# - digital point's rank-checker

With this one, you can (don't have to) insert a snippet of code and away you go. you can look uo ANY website and see where they stand with yahoo. This is pretty important since Yahoo finally caved in and sold to Google. Like I said b4, pretty soon Goole will own Everything and they will BE big brother.

2# - Another Digital point tool - This utility can be used to check search engines (currently supporting Google, Yahoo and MSN) for search engine ranking and track those ranking historically, this is critical when marketing your website(s).

3# - word tracker - Not free but you get a free trial period of 7 days so if you get busy you can end up with a PILE of Very useful data and not pay their high fee. Don't downlaod it until you are ready to spend a lot of time using it!

They state that:

"Use these 'keywords' in your website copy and people will find your site when they search.

No matter what business you are in, Wordtracker will tell you the words people use when they search - and how popular each word is.

With a Wordtracker subscription, you will be able to:

• Optimize your website content by using the most popular keywords for your product and services
• Generate thousands of relevant keywords to improve your organic and PPC search campaigns
• Research online markets, find niche opportunities and exploit them before your competitors

In short, your search engine ranking will soar, you'll get more visits to your website and more people will buy your products."

4# - Keyword Density Checker - This is a free keyword density checker you can add to your google widgets. It gives you quite a lot of data. It really helps you towards optimum keyword density for a set of key terms. It comes from SEO Chat.

This tool will analyze your chosen URL and return a table of keyword density values for 1, 2 or 3 key terms. In an attempt to mimic the function of search engine spiders, it will filter out common stop words (since these will probably be ignored by search engines anyway). It will also STOP you from getting penalized for keyword stuffing which will totally ruin your rankings.

5# - seocentro - This is a great FREE tool you use online. Give you fast data. It gives you the numbers of competing pages and they are clickable in a *drill-down* manner. The site also has a good rank checker too.

6# - Overture has always been great, but they keep moving it around as too many people use it and don't pay for ads. Right now for some reason I can't even find it, but if you find it - it Rocks!

7# - Keyword Ranking Monitor - The primary object of the Keyword Ranking Application is for you to be able to quickly tell how your rankings for each keyword are doing.

8# - Free SEO Tool Place - 14 KEWL tools of which 8 are new. ALso leads off to 99 MORE. The site itself is packed with useful info. You can also check your google pagerank right there.

• Website Analysis Tool (#1)
• Directory Search Tool (#2)
• Keyword Tool (#3)
• Keyword Data Miner (#4)
• Website Keyword Analysis (#5)
• Keyword Top 10 Site Info (#6)
• PageRank Tool (#7)
• Site Stats Tool (#8)
• Page Rank Checker Internal Page Rank
• Link Popularity
• Indexed Pages
• DMOZ Listing Checker
• SERP Checker

Remember, when choosing your keywords, you absolutely HAVE to think like a searcher! There is no way around this - site there and think, if I were looking for my widget, what would I type in?

Good luck and I hope these are helpful - I found them to be so.

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