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<p>One of the basic foundation of every <a href="../search-engine-optimisation">search engine optimisation</a> campaign is the keyword. This is because of the fact that keywords are the ones used by search engines when indexing your website. The keywords would similarly serve as the call number of a book in a library. Target websites will be classified under the most optimised keyword orkeyphrase found in your website. The chosen keyword is also considered as the expected query that will be entered by the internet user when looking for certain information over the internet. This means therefore that if the keyword is being searched by a lot of people using the search engines then your website will have the capability or the potential to gain considerable amount of traffic which in turn increases the chances of conversions for your website, thus the importance of keyword research.</p>
<p>Researching for the right keyword therefore is a very important task and a very tedious task at that. Keyword research is a very tedious task because there are millions of words and millions of combination of words which can be used as keywords manually looking for them without any statistical help would be an endless trial and error process. Thankfully, there are tools that can help and provide you statistical data that would narrow down your keyword choice. There may be a lot of tools being sold in the web but sometimes you just have to look harder in order to realise that such tools are provided for free. The following are three of the keyword research tools that is provided by Google.</p>
<p>1. If you are looking to research for keywords and keyword combinations you can utilise Google adwords’ keyword research tool, although this tool was provided in order for one to efficiently find keywords for his or her <a href="../pay-per-click">PPC</a> campaign this keyword research tool can also be used in SEO campaigns.</p>
<p>2. To check on how viable your chosen keyword is, you can check whether such keyword is currently trending or have already trended by using Google Trends.</p>
<p>3. Finally to check the number of searches and the location of where the searches emanated you can use Google insights which is a really helpful search tool especially if you are targeting specific locations.</p>
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