National Keyword Selector Tools

Targeting the right keyword is essential when you are optimizing and building links to your web site. Search engine optimization is time consuming and it takes a while before you see the results of your work. Its pretty frustrating to find out months later that you have optimized for the wrong keyword phrase, or are using a highly competitive keywords which provides little or no traffic because of poor ranking.

Overture offers an excellent keyword selector tool. The service is free and below is a list of Overtures country specific keyword selectors.

Asia/Far East

• Australia
• Taiwan
• Japan
• Korea

Northern Europe

• Denmark
• Finland
• Norway
• Sweden

Central & South Europe

• Austria
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherland
• Spain
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom (UK)

North America

• USA

South America

• Brazill

The Overture networks share of the search market is roughly 40 to 50%. You can multiply the search frequencies by 1.8 to estimate the total search volume for a keyword.

To avoid the most competitive keywords its recommended that you use “long tail” keyword terms. This is terms of 4 or more words with lesser competition that can provide a good amount of qualified traffic.

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Tony Gregson | SEO facility