Keyword Suggestion Tool Window
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The purpose of the keyword suggestion tool is to find keywords that online users are likely to use when they search for information on the Internet. It will also suggest additional keyword phrase combinations you may not have thought of.
All you need to do is type in a base word (or phrase) and click the Go button. The software will use one of the online tools (made available by search engines) to find additional words and phrases related to the base keyword.
Note: You can resize the various tool windows of Good Keywords using the mouse.
Search Suggestion Tool Options
Base Keyword
The base keyword is the starting point for your research. For example, if you are looking for keyword suggestions for comics you would type in comics as the base keyword and click the Go button.
Research Using... (dropdown box)
Good Keywords obtains the keyword suggestions from the various public tools offered by search engines. These include the different Overture keyword suggestion tools and the additional keyword suggestions offered by the web searches from Yahoo and Ask (Teoma in earlier builds).
The Overture suggestion tools also provide additional data on the number of times each keyword phrase was searched for during the previous month.
For example, if you type 'computer' the Overture US suggestion tool will tell you that during the last month the word 'computer' was searched 3127749 (these numbers are not exact and are used as examples only) times at Overture US. Similarly 'computer game' was searched 158666 times. Also, given one word it will tell you all relevant combinations of that word (again this is based on actual searches done by people).
If the word you typed in not a common search term you will not get any results. It simply means that very few people actually searched for that word during the last month.
If you research using Yahoo or Ask, the suggestion tool will tell you the other combinations of keywords similar to the one you typed in (related searches). If these search engines have no suggestion it doesn't mean that there are actually no search results. Please note that the results are different from the Overture suggestion tool, though Overture is actually Yahoo Search Marketing.
The software is useful for researching how people search the web and then optimizing your own web pages so that more people find your web site.
Clearing the previous search entries from the dropdown box
To clear the drop down boxes (containing the base keywords etc.) in each tool window, simply type
<clear>
(including the angled brackets) and click the Gobutton.
Local Cache and Cache Life
The software will save all your keyword research to a local cache. This will allow you to build your own local keyword suggestion database automatically. If you try to do a lookup for a base keyword again, the software will pick up the data from the local cache instead of doing an Internet lookup.
There are two ways to force the software to do a real lookup instead of cache lookup. You can right click within the current results and select Remove this result from history menu option or you can use the Settings button in the main window to change the cache life from the default 14 days.
If Lookup Fails
This is most probably due to a firewall or security program blocking the software from accessing the internet. Do you have any security software (McAfee/ Norton etc) installed in your system?
Please check your firewall or security program settings and allow the software to access the internet.
