Wordtracker vs Overture or something better?

[lornali]

Hi,

I'm confused by the abundance of keyword tools out there. I'm trying to get an accurate estimate of target keywords that receive the most search volume so we can focus on which keywords we want to optimize our web pages for. The numbers I get for Wordtracker and Overture are wildly different.

- I hear that Wordtracker and Overture are both skewed - why, and how to get around this?

- is there any free/ inexpensive tool that you recomend that gives better search volume estimates.

Many thanks in advance!

[Chriss]

From what I understand, they all base their results on different sets of data, which is why you can come up with differing results when using different tools. Most people advise using a couple of different tools, and compiling/cross referencing the results.

In any case, check out Keyword Discovery - it's definitely one of my favorites, and it's cheap.

[BuckfastMonk]

These will help:

Digital Point keyword suggestion tool
digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

Keyword Discovery
keyworddiscovery.com

keyword suggestion tool
tools.seobook.com/general/keyword

keyword directory
keyworddiscovery.com/keyworddirectory.html

Keyword Intelligence
keywordintelligence.com

MSN clustering preview
rwsm.directtaps.net/p5/clustermain.aspx

SpyFu – lists keywords that competitors rank for or are buying
spyfu.com

Tag Cloud: free folksonomy tool
tagcloud.com

WordTracker
wordtracker.com

Yahoo! Search Term Suggestion Tool
inventory.overture.com/d/sea...ory/suggestion/

AdLab
adlab.msn.com/

Good Keywords: downloadable keyword software
goodkeywords.com/

Google Sets
labs.google.com/sets

Google Suggest
google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

Google Traffic Estimator
adwords.google.com/select/T...stimatorSandbox

Google Trends
google.com/trends