This wiki is managed by Dave Chaffey of Smart Insights to help keep marketers up-to-date with developments in digital marketing

From Marketing Online

Tools to determine target keywords are well-established. But new tools - see Market Potential / Market Demand Tools - provide a lot more analysis of market potential or customer demand for products than the established software/systems. Many of these query the excellent Google research database available direct from Google as the Googlr Keyword Tool or Google Insights for Search.

This list is an update to my established SEO keyphrase analysis tools list.

Most popular keyphrase analysis tools

The three best known and longest established keyword tools are:

• Google Keyword Tool - comprehensive with filtering by country

• Word Tracker US and UK versions available

• Keyword Discovery US and UK versions available

Market Potential / Market Demand Tools

These are the newcomers to the field and often offer more sophistication in estimating the customer demand in terms of volume and types of searches.

• Market Samurai Integrates data from several sources including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! to find out potential market size. Impressive.

• Keyword Examiner Windows-only Tool using Google Keywords database. Useful in that finds true competition based on quotes, title, backlinks.

Keyphrase behaviour visualisation

• Concentrate Good for analysis analysis of search behaviour including long-tail keyphrases. Juice Analytics also have an excellent free tool if you log-in to Google Analytics - the Keyword Tree for visualising search behaviour - combinations of keyphrases. Description of two analytics visualisations.

• Wordstream Another new tool for Keyphrase analysis brought to my attention by Bill Hunt. I'm not clear what it's differentiating features are?

Rank tracking tools for SEO

• SEO Rank Monitor Ranking Tool launched in November 2009. Combines rank tracking of your keyword groups against competitors combined with access to your Google Analytics with the Google API. Read good review at Yoast.com

• 5 SEO focused webanalytics tools 2 of these tools listed by Blogstorm are also useful for rank tracking

Other Google Tools

Google has a series of other tools which show seasonality in demand. Market Samurai uses many of these:

• Google Insights for Search Great for regional analysis and particularly useful for "Hot Trends"

• Google Trends Seasonal Trends

• Google Search-based Keyword Tool Good for gap analysis against advertised keywords in Google AdWords

• Google Adplanner

• Full compilation of Google Tools for Agencies The Agency Toolkit