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What Is Keyword Explorer?

Keyword Explorer provides a simple method of analyzing the keyword phrases you want to use in your web pages. Just type in the keyword phrase you want to use in your web page title or heading and click Analyze. You will soon get a snapshot view of how that keyword phrase is used by different web pages that are listed in Google. You will also see a list of all the competing URLs and the titles used by these web pages.

The snapshot competition count view

The top panel in the software interface displays the keyword phrase along with the result counts in Google for various searches.

• InTitle #: Shows the total number of pages that have used the same keyword phrase in web page title (allintitle search).
• InAnchor #: Shows the total number of web pages that have in-coming links with the keyword phrase used as anchor text (allinanchor search).
• Phrase #: Shows the total number of web page results in Google when you search for the keyword phrase (phrase search).
• Search #: Shows the total number of web page results in Google when you search for the words in the keyword phrase (normal search).

These numbers give you a quick snapshot view of what the competition is for your keyword. The InTitle # is very important because it tell you the number of pages that have the exact same keyword phrase in the web page title.

How To Use Keyword Explorer

The URL and Title View

The lower panel contains a tab with multiple lists. These show the top ranking URLs and the titles for each keyword phrase in the four different search modes. Use it to check the actual listings.

You can right click within the lists to copy the data to clipboard (and then to other applications) . You can also visit the web pages in your browser.

• Start Keyword Explorer. If you don’t have it you can get it here. It is free to download and use.
• If you want to start fresh, you can use the Wipe [1] button and clear the existing data.
• Select the market region [2] you are interested in. If you change it from your current setting the software will ask you if you want to clear the existing data. it is a good idea to clear the data if you change the market region.
• Otherwise you will have a mix of data based on different regions.
• Type in the keyword phrase [3] you want to check and click Analyze [4]
• The status bar [5] will display the status of the lookup and the data will be retrieved. You will start seeing the results on the top panel [6].
• Since the software requires 4 different lookups these will be done one after another in sequence (because we don’t want to sent multiple automated queries to Google). After each lookup the software will wait for a while before doing the next lookup. The status bar will show [http connection wait] when it is waiting.

Checking out the competition

• The lower panel in Keyword Explorer contains four lists within a tabbed view [7]. Each of these will show you the search results for your lookup [8]. The URL and the web page title are displayed.
• Right click within the list and use the Copy All > Titles menu option to copy the titles to the clipboard. Open your Windows NotePad and then use the Edit > Paste menu option to paste the titles into notepad. If required take a hard copy print out.
• Study the titles used by your competition. Is there an interesting idea or angle you missed? Are there keywords in there you had not thought of? Take a paper and write down any new idea, keyword or phrase you may want to research again.
• Create a few more headings and titles based on your new found ideas and thoughts. Go back to Keyword Explorer and check out the new phrases.
• You may also want to redo the keyword research at this point. Use a software like Good Keywords to do this.

Download Keyword Explorer Now! (Keyword Explorer will work on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2K, XP and Vista.)

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What Is KeywordPad?

KeywordPad is a Windows software for managing large keyword lists used in your Internet marketing campaigns (organic search engine optimization, PPC advertisement campaigns, etc).

What Does KeywordPad Do?

• Remove duplicate keyword phrases from large lists
• Sort keyword lists alphabetically or based on word count (ascending and descending)
• Clean keyword phrases by removing words at start, end, in the middle or any where in the keyword phrase.
• Clean keyword phrases by removing unwanted characters (even based on where they occur)
• Search and replace words in a large keyword list.
• Find and remove unwanted terms (at the start, end, middle, etc.) from each keyword phrase in your list.
• Create and add common misspellings of existing keyword phrases in list.
• Create large keyword lists by replacing a term with another and then duplicating the list. Perfect for creating long tail keywords!
• Merge keyword lists.
• Remove leading, trailing characters (punctuation, spaces or any other)
• Remove repeated characters (for example, spaces)
• Create larger keyword lists by recombining the words in the existing phrases.
• Convert the keywords to upper, lower, First letters to upper, etc.
• Create Google phrase, exact matched keyword phrases.
• Add prefix and suffix words to every keyword phrase in your list.
• Copy and move keywords between multiple keyword lists. The software supports loading up to 6 different keyword lists.
• Export the keyword lists to text files.
• Import large keyword lists from text files.

Download KeywordPad Now! (KeywordPad will work on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2K, XP and Vista.)

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