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A problem with search…

When I’m not doing ‘internet plumbing’ — website development and social media optimization — I’m working on the problem of getting found in what Google calls the ‘Zero Moment of Truth’. The big issue I’m trying to solve my clients and myself is “when people are searching for what I do will they find me”? It’s a difficult problem to solve and I rant about it here…

By the way, here is a list of the top 10 tools that I have found in my quest…

Keyword Research Tools

Keyword Research Tools

Here's a list of keyword research tools that SEOs should be using.

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    1. SEMRush

      SEMRush

      This keyword research tool is a great way to conduct competitors research. SEMrush shows organic and Ads keywords for any site or domain.

    2. Soovle - Let the web help.

      Soovle - Let the web help.

      Search suggestions and completions from the top providers on the internet. Easy to use, fast and efficient. Hit the right arrow to change engines, and use your arrow keys to search without all the typing. Let the web help.

    3. iBoogie - MetaSearch Document Clustering Engine and Personalized Search Engines Directory

      iBoogie - MetaSearch Document Clustering Engine and Personalized Search Engines Directory

      iBoogie MetaSearch Engine with automatic document clustering.

    4. Yippy.com - Yippy Search Engine

      Yippy.com - Yippy Search Engine

      Yippy.com - a research-oriented search engine, perfect for education or the family PC. Private, secure searching of billions of documents that are clustered for refined research. Yippy!

    5. Carrot2 Clustering Engine

      Carrot2 Clustering Engine

      Carrot2 organizes your search results into topics. With an instant overview of what's available, you will quickly find what you're looking for.

    6. Google Keywords Tool

      Google Keywords Tool

      Part of adwords.google.com

    7. Google Contextual Targeting Tool

      Google Contextual Targeting Tool

      Part of adwords.google.com

    8. Google Trends

      Google Trends

      Explore Google Search trends with Google Trends.

    9. PolyMeta

      PolyMeta

    10. KBucket: Start your search with Someone’s research

      KBucket: Start your search with Someone’s research

      KBucket is a user indexed search site. A place where experts “content curators” organize, comment, tag and publish their research. All KBucket pages are organized in multiple related lists of links. Each link is commented and tagged by an author. KBucket can be lists and directories of products like blogs, web applications or on topics like health, politics and economy.

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