The Free Keyword Tool — Better PPC & SEO Keyword Selection

Learn More about The FREE Keyword Tool

Want to know more about The Free Keyword Tool, like where it gets its data, what "relative volume" means, or how it compares to other free keyword tools? Then, keep reading or you can use the links to the right to jump down to a particular topic of interest.

What People are Saying about The FREE Keyword Tool

Here’s what some of the biggest names in search marketing have to say about The Free Keyword Tool.

"The coolest feature it offers is that it allows you to download thousands of keywords at once."

- Aaron Wall, SEOBook

"WordStream has launched a free keyword research tool that is better than Google's limited one."

- Frank Watson, Search Engine Watch

"In a time where most willingly pay for multiple commercial tools, it's refreshing to see one free tool deliver great results that render the others useless."

- SEO expert Eric Lander

"An awesome alternative to paid Wordtracker or Keyword Discovery."

-  Ann Smarty, Search Engine Journal

Video Tutorial for The FREE Keyword Tool

Yes! Our Keyword Research Tool is 100% Free!

Believe it or not, The Free Keyword Tool is 100% FREE! So use it as much as you want, for as long as you like. And unlike some other “free” keyword research tools, we won't show you only a portion of the possible keyword suggestions and then make you pay for the rest. We will email you the entire keyword list for FREE!

Data Sources for The Free Keyword Tool

People often ask us where we get the keyword data that fuels The Free Keyword Tool. The answer is we purchase the data through a number of search industry partnerships, which include:

• Internet Service Providers
• Browser Toolbars
• Search Engines

Once we’ve acquired this keyword research data, we apply sophisticated statistical models to aggregate the different keyword data sets, applying various weightings and powerful semantic algorithms to compute related terms.

About Our Free Keyword Suggestion Tool CAPTCHA

We use a CAPTCHA to verify that you're a real person interested in keyword analysis. This helps us prevent abuse so our computing resources aren’t bogged down by spammy bots, allowing the tool to run much faster like a truly efficient keyword generator should. To avoid filling out the CAPTCHA form, just sign up for a free account. It’s that easy.

Don’t Worry…All Your Keywords Data is Private

First, here’s some background on us. Besides free SEM products, WordStream provides a full suite of paid Keyword Management Solutions, which includes PPC software, a keyword analyzer and a host of next generation keyword tools, for conducting proprietary keyword discovery, keyword research, keyword grouping and keyword organization. That said, the private keyword data that users plug into any WordStream product (paid or free) is never shared, sold or in any way integrated with any of our keywords tools.

Relative Volume in The Free Keyword Tool: What Does it Mean?

Relative volume is our estimate of how often particular keyword phrases are searched on. The higher a keyword’s relative volume, the more frequently that keyword is searched.

Our Free Keyword Search Tool is Not Only Fast, But Its Extremely Accurate

We believe that The Free Keyword Tool provides the most comprehensive and accurate keyword suggestions and relative volume estimates of any free or paid keyword suggestion tool or keyword software on the market. The WordStream Free Keyword Tool was designed to generate more accurate keyword suggestions than the Google Keyword Tool, Google's AdWords Keyword Tool and other keyword tools by aggregating over 1 billion unique keywords, including:

• AdWords keywords
• Keywords for websites
• Keyword phrases
• Long tail keywords
• Negative keywords
• Meta keywords
• PPC keywords
• SEO keywords

This aggregated keyword data represents over a trillion search queries and hundreds of millions of related terms from diverse keyword sources. Using this method enables us to provide a more comprehensive and less biased mix of both head and long-tail terms for you to use in SEO and PPC marketing activities.

Comparing Free Keyword Tools: How Ours Stacks Up

When pit The Free Keyword Tools against other keyword suggestion tools, there’s really no comparison. With our PPC and SEO keyword tool, you get:

• More: We give you more keyword suggestion results than even the paid version of any popular free keyword search tool
• Faster: The Free Keyword Tool is blazingly-fast, returning instantaneous keyword suggestions and related keywords
• Free: You get more keywords, faster, all for FREE!

Keyword tools in general are notorious for supplying dubious keyword results and inaccurate search volume estimates. In designing The Free Keyword Tool, our goal was to devise a means to overcome known keyword discovery tool problems, such as:

• Google's keyword suggestion tool and their Adwords tool for keywords have a tendency to suggest only the most popular keywords, or “head terms,” while greatly overestimating keyword search volume. Also, you may have noticed that Google’s tools are slow in returning results.
• Wordtracker and other keyword search marketing tools, on the other hand, grab their data from obscure and seldom used resources, like Metacrawler and Dogpile, which tend to favor less popular keyword searches ("long-tail" terms), and the results aren't particularly accurate, either.

Here's a quick visual of why we think the Free Keyword Tool adds more value than a traditional keyword analysis tool:

Our Philosophy on Giving Away Free Keywords

In a nutshell, we think keywords should be free. For a more detailed explanation on this thinking, read WordStream founder Larry Kim's blog post on this subject.

Comparing The Free Keyword Tool Account and a Keyword Management Account

Keyword Tool Account	Keyword Management Account
Purpose: Unlimited Free Keywords!	Purpose: To organize, manage and optimize your keywords!
Cost: FREE!	Cost: Varied

How to Sign Up for a Keyword Management Trial Account

If you've already signed up for The Free Keyword Tool but you want to trial WordStream's Keyword Management Solutions, just visit this page and enter the same email address and password you used for the Keyword Tool Account and we'll create and email you a profile name.

What Do I Get With My Keyword Management Trial Account?

A WordStream Keyword Management Trial Account includes all our advanced keyword research capabilities including:

• Keyword discovery tools
• Keyword grouping and organization tools
• Content creation tools (WordStream SEO for Firefox)
• Keyword analytics

A WordStream for PPC trial account also includes all our PPC campaign creation and ad text tools.

Can I Try WordStream SEO for Firefox?

Yes, click here to download the WordStream SEO for Firefox plug-in. This content authoring tool connects your keyword research to your content management system or blogging platform to help you write keyword-optimized, targeted content for your blog or website. To learn more:

• Watch a video tutorial
• Read the FAQ
• Read the product documentation

I Already Have a Keyword Management Account. Now I Need a Free Keywords Tool Account

The good news is that you already have one. By signing up for a trial of our Keyword Management Software, you automatically get access to The Free Keyword Tool. Just sign in up top with the same email address and password you use for your Keyword Management Account.

Reasons to Purchase WordStream's Keyword Management Solution

Keyword research is an important step in the search and inbound marketing process, but not the only step. To succeed in the long run, you need actionable PPC and SEO tools and strategies to enable ongoing keyword discovery, organization and analysis...what we call "keyword management." Many in search engine marketing use Microsoft Excel for keyword grouping and organization tasks. Trouble is, Excel wasn't designed for this function. The WordStream Keyword Management Solution, however, WAS built specifically with the needs of search marketers in mind. It has a number of advantages over Excel:

• It's dynamic and actionable
• It's easy to maintain and update
• It easily aggregates data from multiple sources
• It lets you create complex relationships between data sets
• It's scalable and collaborative

To Learn More about WordStream's Keyword Management Software:

• Sign up for a free trial
• Watch the video demo
• Download one of our white papers