Fantastic sources of keywords are available virtually to everyone - you only need to know where to find them.

When I am looking for new ideas for articles or when I'm trying to optimize some of my content for specific keywords, I very often rely on my own keyword bookmarklet that many of my readers seem to like as well.

The trick is really to find a good starting point for this bookmarklet. Today, I am going to share with you 5 of my best and proven methods (sources) for working with this tool.

 If you've been following this blog, you probably know that I like to develop some custom tools to help me with generating keywords or niche ideas.

As effective as they are, the one key component still missing is further analysis. It's very easy to generate hundreds or even thousands of promising keywords using these tools, but you really need an automated way to tell the really good ones from the probably less profitable ones.

Here's an extremely simple tool that I developed to scrape keywords offered by the Google Suggest feature. What's cool about this tool is that it scrapes more than just the default 10 results.

The basic concept is that the script takes your root (seed) keyword and adds each letter of the alphabet, effectively generating suggestions starting with each of these letters. It means that within 1-2 seconds you can get over 200 related phrases for your root keyword.

I am not quite sure when exactly it happened, but it seems that Wordtracker has dropped its 1–day subscription plan.

This plan, in fact, offered you full three days of access to the Wordtracker database for as little as $8. It was great value for money – you could do very extensive research and save it for later use. Perhaps, this plan turned out to be too good, taking customers away from more profitable plans (weekly, monthly and yearly).

This may come as a rather unfortunate news for some because now, you have to shell out at least $27 to use this service. On the other hand, this may actually be beneficial to more business-oriented niche marketers. $27 is still a very little investment, but it should stop at least some people from competing against you for every possible term found in the Wordtracker database.

Keyword Discovery is one of the better known commercial keyword research services, but it also offers some great free resources.

Today, I am going to highlight one of them – a service, which shows you the top keywords driving traffic to individual sites in the DMOZ directory. The demo version is limited to just the top 10 keywords for each category, but you can dig deep into categories, so you can still get fairly specific keywords – a great start for further research using other tools.

With this post, I am starting a new series of reviews of different products, both free and commercial, which may help you on your way to conquering the niche markets. If you want your product reviewed, please contact me via the contact form (link in the upper-right hand corner).

Because you’re reading this blog, it’s highly probable that you’re involved in a never-ending race for better keywords and SERPs. Therefore, I am also sure that you would appreciate any tool that could accelerate this process, while also making it immensely more powerful and fruitful. Today, it’s my pleasure to review one of such tools – Keyword Results Analyzer.

I've not yet discussed analytics here, but if you're serious about any of your niche websites, it's then essential to know where your traffic is coming from and how it's converting.

One of the best and free solutions available is Google Analytics. It's probably more powerful than any other free analytics solution you may find (actually, it's based on the Urchin analytics system that used to be offered commercially before Google acquired it).

However, the problem is that it may be somewhat overwhelming for the beginners. The sheer number of statistics and views is difficult to manage and to use effectively.

Keyword research is more of an art than science. However, with the abundance of both free and (very) expensive tools, you can be misled into quite the opposite belief, especially by some marketers who want you to believe that their keyword research software will catapult you magically into the first page of SERPs and make you tons of money.

Would you mind making a great browser even better? Well, I guess I know the answer... Especially if you're an avid keyword researcher and you've run into one of the few shortcomings that Firefox has, i.e. how it handles copying tables.

Well, it was a pretty busy weekend and the keyword bookmarklet evolved quit a bit.

To show you all the new features, I've recorded another video, which basically shows how to use it. Please watch it to make sure that you discover all the new features.