How Google has Changed Keyword Research Forever with a Free Tool

By Dave Joa

With a recent new version of the External Keyword Tool for Adwords from Google we can now see search volumes for any keyword returned by this tool when we are performing keyword research. Because Google owns the most popular search engine they also have the biggest database of searched for keywords and this fact means this news is extremely important for all internet marketers.

Before this new release all involved in affiliate and internet marketing would have had to use a paid keyword research service, such as Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker, Wordze or Keyword Elite to create their keyword lists. The trouble with these services has always been that the amount of data they collect is small in comparison to what Google sees. On the other hand the number of searches recorded by Google is massive compared to what these traditional keyword services provide.

Up until now all the keyword research tool services available have just tried to estimate search volumes from the little data that they have, but at best these were only really best guesses and probably have never been very accurate. With no other tools showing anything any more accurate they are what have been used for years.

Now Google has changed everything and the new external keyword tool for Adwords displays much more accurate search volumes for real keyword phrases that have actually been searched for in Google by users of their popular search engine. So now if you want to do keyword research you can get everything you want from Google and the search volume data you get will be so much more accurate then the paid keyword tools.

What is more Google provides all this keyword data for free! Although designed originally for use just with Adwords by affiliate marketer this external keyword tool, as it is known, is available for anyone to use totally free. Once you know the link or URL you can just go straight to the tool and use it whenever you want.

The new data revealed by Google is a significant in the history of Internet marketing. Eventually Google looks like they have given web marketers what they want. As is normal many still do not trust Google and think there maybe something else behind the release of this new data and they also suggest it might not be that accurate. Of course time will reveal the real answer to this doubt, but early results are suggesting that the accuracy of their data is acceptable.

The fact hat this free keyword tool also now has different versions for each country means that you can now do accurate keyword research, with search volumes included, for countries such as the UK, Canada or Australia. This now makes the Adwords external keyword tool the best tool for accurate UK keyword research.

For internet marketers in those countries this is an exciting development as the traditional keyword tools just never had sufficient data for the keyword results they provided to provide useful information and what is more this new tool is free!

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For more on the Google Adwords External Keyword Tool read the reviews at the Affiliate Marketing website and see how it can be used with other tools such as Keyword Elite .