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Let’s cut back on the dialogue about traditional keyword research and instead, let’s talk about learning how to quickly tap into legitimate data and quickly explore it using a few free tools first.

If you enjoy using various free cool tools for SEO (and who doesn’t) then let’s give you a list of 10 %free online tools for SEO% Some of these you may have heard of before, but there are 10 that I’m listing so you might also find something helpful that you didn’t know about.

• - CopyScape http://copyscape.com
• - Domain Monitor - http://www.domaintools.com/monitor/
• - http://validator.w3.org/checklink/
• - http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-playground.php
• - http://webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php
• - Yahoo Site Explorer http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
• –HTML Reference Guide - http://html-tags.info/
• - We We Monitor - http://futurenowinc.com/wewe.htm
• - http://webconfs.com/anchor-text-analysis.php
• - SpyFu - http://spyfu.com (for spying on competition)

Enjoy the free tools!

Finally, here is a free video for those who are interested in finding better word relationships and assuming that you are a member of the Wordtracker keyword research tool. Hope you find the video helpful too:

Next let’s give you a few interesting ideas for how to beef up the content on your Web site.

Your high performance, information rich pages might be any of the following (but not limited just to these either):

1.You might consider an educational page that teaches your audience something that is often misunderstood.

2.An introductory story related to the appropriate Web site theme (something that is compelling or human interest topic).

3.Consider statistical topics or common nostalgia that may relate to your industry.

4. People love to read about other peoples experiences and or opinions and views. Why not interview someone in your industry.

5. Create a page with an emphasis product reviews and identify benefits of each product in comparison.

6. Create an article related to something going on in the real world current news.

7. People love pages that offer how to information or nicely done tutorials.

8. Your information page might even be a biography about someone’s life that people are looking for detail on.

9. Your pages might something with a current events or newsworthy or seasonal news.

10. Your information rich pages might want to contain detailed historical comparisons.

One of the best ways to come come up with original ideas is to think laterally about “your audiences needs” in comparison to how they are searching on the major search engines.

If you do more PPC than you do SEO then here is something else that is pretty interesting. Dynamic keyword insertion made easy. This tool is not free, but very easy to use and VERY well worth knowing about if you get frustrated with PPC and want to ramp up more sales and response to your campaigns. Watch the video demo here

John Alexander teaches students and business owners a variety of skills in Search Engine Workshops as well as offers distance learning through %seo courses for distance learning%

Filed under: Fun Stuff on August 31st, 2009