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Keywords

The only 2 easy to use tools for searching keywords and
keyword phrases are

www.wordtracker.com and
www.keyworddiscovery.com. Both sites offer
limited free trials.

  1. www.wordtracker.com- Wordtracker has been the leading site and source for finding Keywords and Keyword phrases for more than a decade.
  2. www.keyworddiscovery.com- KeywordDiscovery compiles keyword search statistics from over 180 search engines world wide. (Including multi-lingual.)

SEO

There are so many SEO company sites on the Internet that it would futile to try and list some of the best. Don’t be fooled by the fact that
if a company is on the front page that it must be good. (Although that could do as a start.)

For those that want to learn or can self teach by reading and practicing then I suggest.

News Letters

  • Google alerts - Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or
    topic.Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: **Monitoring a
    developing news story. **Keeping current on a competitor or industry.
  • Wilson Web - Follow the link and sign up for his weekly news letter. This news letter is unique because of Dr. Wilson’s integrity and does not use his letters to (over)sell you his personal products.
  • Robin Nobles - Sign up for her newsletter which is full of never tiring
    ideas.
  • John Alexander - Sign up for his newsletter which gives useful daily tips on all aspects of SEO.

Articles

  • All Top - collects stories from “all the top” sites on the web. Also: a “dashboard,” “table of contents,” or even a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet.
  • EZine articles- searchable database of hundreds of thousands of quality original articles

Top 10 Search Engines

Search Engine

About
1 Google.com Hyper-fast searches, consistent relevance, a
gigantic catalog, curious features like archived pages, spell check,
toolbars, froogle, a phenomenal
image search, a banner-free interface, and publishing in nearly 100
different languages… nobody can offer what

Google.com offers. Consistently the favorite choice of millions
of Internet searchers, Google (Google.com,
Google.ca, Google.fr, Google.de, Google.co.uk) has rightfully
earned the spot as Top Search Engine.
2 Yahoo.com Originally managed by a human editor staff,
Yahoo switched to “automated-crawling” with its own spider similar to the one that Google uses. With the acquisition of
Alltheweb,
GoTo (Overture), and
Altavista, Yahoo is now an
amalgam of many different database technologies. Furthermore, Yahoo
is also a full-featured consumer portal like
MSN, providing shopping, news, and
other services beyond searching.
3 About.com About, like Yahoo directory and DMOZ, is a search “directory”. The links you find at About are hand-picked by human editors, not auto-indexed like they are at Google.
4 Ask.com Ask.com, (also known as AJ.com and AskJeeves.com), is powered by the Teoma.com search engine.
5 Kartoo.com (Personal Favorite) KartOO is a search engine, with a delightful twist on searching! KartOO shines with its graphical presentation. By using a visual “mind map” to display its results, users can see how keywords branch out to specific hits. If you’re in no rush to do your searching, then try this beautiful Flash interface!
6 Fast search Also know as ‘All The Web’, it’sintetion has always been to index as much of the web as possible. It has a consistently large index and was the first search engine to break the 200 million results mark.
7 Lycos Lycos started as a spider-based engine but changed to a directory acouple of years back. It gets listings from the Open Directory, with secondary results coming from FAST and Direct Hit.
8 MSN Microsoft’s MSN Search is part of its popular MSN portal site. Powered by Looksmart, displaying secondary results from Inktomi. Internet Explorer’s integrated search toolbar uses this index as its default.
9 AOL search AOL Search allows its members to search both the web and AOL’s own content. External category and site listings come from the Open Directory and crawler-based results come from Inktomi.
10 GoTo In order to get a good listing in GoTo, you have to pay. Other non-paid results are taken from Inktomi. The paid results also show up in other engines like AltaVista, AOL Search, Lycos, HotBot and Netscape Search.