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Something beginning with ….Keywords!

Recently I posted an Article over at theInfoPreneur talking about free tools and resources that you can use to ‘steal SEO and Keyword secrets from the Pro’s, by basically copying what the guys already ranking on page one are doing.
I strongly recommend that you go and check it out if you have not already done so. The post is called How to Steal SEO secrets from the Pro’s and talks about two fantastic free resources that if used correctly are a great asset to any niche marketer or serious blogger:

• The Google Toolbar
• SEO Quake (Mozille Firefox plugin)

Now these two tools are fantastic to have in your arsenal, but recently I discovered a service that just blows my mind in terms of accuracy, speed and usability. The fact that it is completely free certainly confuses me some, but reaffirms how much crap there is out there that really shouldn’t cost a dime!  I’m starting to rant here so let me get back on track…

Want to find out what the Top Ten are up to?

I won’t go into too much detail about the process of finding and optimising keywords within profitable niches but I will say this, Part of the process of researching niches and keywords involves checking the top ten ranked sites for that phrase. This can take a while if you want to check each in detail… until now.

SecretPageSpy is a new free membership site that basically allows you to ‘spy’ on the competition and find out what they are up to in Keyword and SEO speak. This is a fantastic tool because part of the process of finding a profitable niche to build a site around involves making sure the top ten ranked sites for that keyword are going to be sites you can compete against, and even though a simple look over of the top ten can help you ascertain whether or not to ‘go for it’ imagine if you could find out everything that the top ten are doing, both in front of you and behind your back.

Secret Page Spy

SecretPageSpy offers two main parts to their service, Keywords and Domain names.

• Enter your Keyword and get the listing of the top ten sites ranked for that phrase instantly. You can see not only what their position and pagerank is, you can also view incoming and outgoing link count as well as a comprehensive list of ALL the keywords they happen to be ranked for. That is incredible detail and there is so much insight you can garner from that information, I am not even going to start going into it here.
• Enter your URL and this is where it gets tasty. When you input a URL it spits back a list of the site SEO details (like link count and title) but more importantly it provides a list of ALL the keywords that site is competing for. This is a fantastic way to come up with ideas for keywords that you may not have thought of yourself, or to see what other keywords you might try and compete for instead.

As I mentioned earlier, this tool is completely free and even if you never utilise it as part of a marketing strategy, I strongly recommend you go and have a play, even if it’s just to find out what your blog buddy down the street is up to.

But Wait! There’s more…

I spy with my little eye  (a Guest post at TechnShare)

This seems to be the trend in this post, because I quickly want to link you to another awesome tool that I recently came across called Keyword Eye. (check it out!)

I won’t go into too much detail here because that is what my first Contribution post over at TechnShare is for, so if you want to get the goss on the coolest ‘blogger friendly keyword research tool’ I have ever seen, then get over to TechnShare and read my post titled ‘How to get Traffic in 45 seconds’

That’s it, I’m out – under 700 words and THAT is a record for me (does it count though considering part of this post relied on linking to two others which now brings the total word count to….a lot!?)

Hope you enjoyed the tools & references provided  here and that they help you in your Keyword Optimization Journey.

• If you have heard of or use any other cool free tools, please feel free to share them with us in the comments below.

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Tagged as: keyword eye, Keyword Research Tools, secret page spy, SEO Quake