Before I start reviewing available tools showing which keywords your competitors rank high in Google, let me describe how you can use this information:
- do not just copy-paste your competitors’ keywords, use it as additional help for your keyword research;
- compare which keywords your competitors optimized their pages (i.e. tried to rank for) and which keywords they ended up ranking for. Thus you’ll be able to avoid their mistakes.
1. SEO Digger (paid with free trial) will show you Google keyword position, check date (International style: DD/MM/YYYY) and Wordtracker rank:
2. SpyFu (paid with free trial) spies for both your competitors’ organic search rankings and Google Adwords campaign keywords:
3. KeywordSpy (paid with free trial) will show you both the keyword your competitor ranked for and the total number of results returned for this keyword. While the tool does have some really user-friendly interface, it lacks some sorting options.
4. KeywordRemix (if the tool is back, please comment) also offers some interesting data on keyword rankings such as total number of results in Google, Google News and Google Blog Search competition, data age and synonymous phrases (the tool also has some bugs: it shows one and the same key term multiple times):
Final note: all these tools showed me different keywords. So my advice is to try all of them before you decide which one is better for you.
I found this tool to be very useful and cool…
Thanks ann for sharing !!
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Spyfu FTW. I have found it to be scary accurate
Exactly what I’ve been looking for! TY!
Some excellent tools there. I’ve always found that KeywordSpy works well but wasn’t actually aware of KeywordRemix… will try that out shortly.
Just tried KeywordRemix and found the results very interesting. Thanks for the advice. Am learning something new everyday.
Thanks for the info. This is what I needed.
Thanks Ann, very useful as usual.
Very interesting list Ann, great job rounding all these up and relaying it to all of your readers. Recently we developed our own too for use in-house that was primarily intended for keyword and ranking research. I have found it to also make a pretty decent competitor tool for anyone interested in learning what keywords they are targeting and where they might rank on G, Y and M. Thought your readers may be interested in trying it out. We encourage feedback so please let us know what you all think.
http://www.visible.net/tools/keywords/
(Note: the link above is reported to have viruses.)
The last note is really fun: “Final note: all these tools showed me different keywords.” But anyway, they seem like great tools, thank you for the article.
Research your online competitors (adcopy, adwords, and landing pages) here for free.
There are no limitations on the number of results nor how many times you can use the service and it is completely free.
If you’re already using adwords in some form then a great way to check these tools is to see what they say about your own campaigns.
Comparing their results to what you know your doing shows how reliable they are.
Thanks! I found these tools useful for both PPC and SEO. Awesome find!
Yup, these are also my picks for keyword research. You can use these tools for regular SEO or for making targeted Adsense Websites
http://www.visible.net/tools/keywords/
is coming up with a online virus, beware
http://keywordremix.com/domain-tool/ appears to be a parked page now.
@IWG, thanks, the post is edited.
Good little tool with semrush. I don’t think their info on search volume is correct though. For we design they said the average monthly search volume was only 18,000 but in my Googe account they say that the search volume is 2 million nationally and 4million globally, so not sure what to think about that.
This is crap. What is it with everyone and their no-follow tags in the links of blogs. I thought that was the whole point of blogs to trade links post articles and generate good indexing and backlinks.
I’m caught between SpyFu & KeywordSpy. Not too sure which one I should sign up too. Also considering http://www.urltrends.com ….. anyone got experience of the above?
Excellent review and very helpful info. Hope you make a post for software that can do the job too, rather than websites. Thanks
Are there any reputable tools that have enough features and at the same time are free? There is always an upsell when you see “free”.
Hi Ann
Nice post as many internet user don’t know these very useful tools.