The Latest Trend for Maximizing Sales: Search Term Data, Part 2

Per our last article on the new rise of using consumer search term data, here are some free search term research services you can take advantage of right now:

1. Yahoo - Enter a term related to your site and they will show you related searches that include your term and how many times that term was searched last month.

2. Microsoft’s Adlab - Enter keywords to see monthly history of trends and impression counts, keyword age distribution, and keyword gender distribution.

3. SEO Book - Driven off the Overture keyword suggestion tool, and offers monthly regional search volumes by market for many top search engines.

4. Digital Point - Will show you the results of your query to see how often your phrase is searched for, as well as offer suggestions for alternate keywords.

5. Wordtracker - Tells you the most popular keywords for your business. Offers 330 million keywords immediately upon registering.

6. Google Trends - Lists today's hot trends, along with search volume, and comparison data.

Whatever your objectives, adding term data analysis to your marketing mix is showing itself to be a proven way to delve more deeply into your audience’s needs—to help snag big rewards.

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