2 Desktop Tools to Help You Manage Your Keyword Lists

September 19th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 14 Comments

I have previously covered ways to organize your keyword list depending on your purposes. Still there is no limit to improving your organizing skills. Besides, key terms are so numerous and diverse that I for one can spend hours trying to manage them to full potential.

So, as usual, to find new ways to organize your keywords and more options to get help with the overall keyword research, I turn to 2 desktop tools - both offering handy keyword list managing options.

1. Organize key phrases into “sets” of words based on the core term: Traffic Travis:

Traffictravis

Price:

~ $100 (with a free basic version)

Process:

let the tool search for keyword suggestions or import your own list;
go through the keyword list, choose any (hold <Shift> to choose multiple phrases) and send the selected ones to the ’sorter’;
search the list for the core term(s) and save the search results as “sets”.

Benefits:

helpful filtering options:
- remove phrases containing more than XX words;
- remove duplicate phrases.
find “partial” or “inverted” duplicate phrases (e.g. ‘carb diets’/ ‘diet carb’);
easily organize your site hierarchy (from two- to three-, four-, etc word combinations with one core term).

2. Organize your keywords in baskets based on your own criteria: Web CEO:

Web CEO

Price:

> $199 with free (limited) trial version

Process:

you can either let the tool search for keyword suggestions or import your own list;
then you go through the keyword list, choose any (hold <Shift> to choose multiple phrases) and sort them into baskets.

Benefits:

you have unlimited freedom (you can sort your keywords based on search volume or competition, term topic (e.g. general; location-targeted; brand-related searches; etc), query type (navigational vs informational), keyword potential (commercial vs informational) or any other you invent);
you can save notes for each basket to remember why you saved it;
you can save one key phrase in multiple baskets (some keywords really fit into many directories).

Disclaimer: I recommend to only use the above tools for informational purposes. No tool is 100% accurate and nobody knows the exact algorithms that the search engines use. Thus no tool should be used as your sole tool for Search Engine Optimization.

Comments

14 responses so far ↓

Nick Stamoulis on Sep 19, 2008 at 8:38 pm

Awesome tools..will definitely consider them!
Jason Lancaster on Sep 20, 2008 at 9:56 am

I’m not a big fan of Web CEO - I’ve used this software in the past and it’s sort of clunky.
Deep Arora on Sep 20, 2008 at 11:40 am

Hey thanks for sharing this to us. I would agree with you that keywords play a major role in the online success of any campaign. Be it an info campaign, product campaign, services campaign, promotions campaign… whatever it is, using website keywords correctly means you are equipping your website to be found. Equipping search engines to index you properly, equipping your target audience to find you quickly.

I think to be very sure that you’re using the write keywords, if you can afford it, you must get the help of a professional. Your ISP or even your webmaster can help you get in touch with a professional to guide you.
Internets Was Yes on Sep 20, 2008 at 2:38 pm

hey thanks a lot, this should make managing my keyword list a little easier. Now I just have to figure out what keywords I should use…
Timeblogger on Sep 21, 2008 at 2:47 am

Thanks a lot, coz I was looking for programs like these. May be, I will buy one of these programs.
Car Hire|Car Rental TIPs on Sep 21, 2008 at 4:53 am

Thanks for the great tools!very easy to use and will consider to have it!
Seo in Abruzzo on Sep 21, 2008 at 11:13 am

Great tool suggestion Ann … I’m the Traffic travis. I’m waiting for download link.
About Web Ceo, I prefer don’t spen any words.
Dev Basu on Sep 21, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Neat tools Ann! I’ve used Web CEO before, but the other tool is new to me. I wish there was some sort of uber tool that pulled data from all kw research sources, then sorted based on the correlation between each of them, weighted the results, and gave an end result estimation. I think Epiar’s tools may offer something similar, but it’d be great if everyone could have access to a tool like that
Antonio DePalma on Sep 22, 2008 at 6:29 am

i like the ideea to get some help to my keywords.

Should i pay for that software?
It will work for pages with german keywords like this one?
http://www.artikel32.com/physik/physik-101.php
If youe can you tell us some more details about the prodcut company, prces etc?

Many thanks
Michael on Sep 23, 2008 at 9:00 am

Yet again very good tools.

I always end up using excel and manually swapping all my keywords around as I want them.
Budget Hotels In Delhi on Sep 29, 2008 at 1:13 am

really a gr8 tool
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f150 Nerf Bars on Apr 13, 2009 at 7:35 pm

Thanks for the info. I’ve tried Traffic Travis the last week or so and was going to buy it. Now I’ll try Web CEO too.
Richard Vanderhurst on May 9, 2009 at 1:52 am

Thanks for sharing this keyword tools. I’ll try to get one after I try the free version and will see how it goes. Thanks!