Good Keywords is a free tool offered by India-based Softnik Technologies that allows you to type in a keyword and find out how many searches for the term were made over the last month using Yahoo.
Because it is limited to Yahoo searches only, and has no real definition of what constitutes a “search,” it is of fairly limited use.
They also include a Link Popularity tool, which shows how many other sites are linking to yours, using information gathered from AltaVista, Hotbot, MSN, and Google.
Although the mechanism for calculating the figures isn’t provided, this is certainly an interesting option.
A new version is due to be released soon that will offer enhanced features, most still free, but some of which will have a cost associated with them.
The key aspects to the next version of Good Keywords are a keyword organizer, a web page explorer (no details provided on exactly what that entails), a misspelled keyword generator, and a keyword phrase builder, in addition to the site and link popularity checkers.
Softnik Technologies hopes that by visiting the Good Keywords site you will become interested in their paid product, PPC, Toolkit.
Available on another website, PPC Toolkit includes Bid Reporter pro, a tool that studies the patterns of bidders and identifies just who those bidders are at search engine properties, including “Yahoo, Espotting, FindWhat, and others.”
It also includes a product called “AdMaker” and Good keywords, for a package price.
When one runs a keyword through the tool, PPC Bid Reporter Pro returns a report containing information on the first, last and median bid at various search engines, and the ranking of the keyword in 12 different search engines.
It will also show you competitor ads on Google AdWords (based on keyword) so you can tweak your own ad to compete more effectively.
You can also save different scenarios to Excel spreadsheets and download them for comparison later.
The Softnik websites have undergone recent redesigns with nice changes made to clearly offer the PPC Toolkit as a separate item.
With good screenshots showing the various products and short, but clear, explanations, the tools are easy to understand, but do not appear to offer as many functions as similar tools.
For example, there is no auto-bidding feature or automatic notification of a dip in the ranking of your ad.
A free download trial of the PPC Toolkit is offered, which is strongly suggested before purchasing this tool.
It costs $99 for a single user license (good for two years worth of upgrades) and $195 for a site wide license.
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