I looked at WordStream's keyword tool last week but waited till it was formally announced before writing about it. According to Wordstream, their keyword tool compares favorably to Google's and WordTracker:
I almost have to wonder why anyone bothers with WordTracker anymore - I'm not sure that paid keyword tools are really worth it - esp with so many free tools, including an excellent one by SEOBook (though it might be packed with too much information).
But in another way, using different keyword tools leads to different ways you'd want to use them, ending up with different results, overall.
I did a search on Netbooks (I just bought 2 netbooks, today)
What I like the most about Wordstream's keyword tool is the related keyword sections on the right - I started with "Netbooks" by itself, but the volume of that keyword must be low, since no suggested words were present - then I added "laptop" and got several - I can use the related keywords to build out a better keyword list than I can get from WordTracker, alone, and perhaps, from Google's Keyword Tool - which is more focused on sales.
In the interest of being transparent - I am doing some freelance work with WordStream - though this review of WordStream's keyword tool is not part of that work. What I'd like to see WordStream do - is make this keyword tool a widget - and let people embed it whereever they want.
The WordStream Keyword Tool is also a nice way for WordStream to do lead generation - you can get the entire list of keywords on any query by giving them your email address - and WordStream has a guide to show you what to do with the information you get out of their new free tool.
If anything, WordStream's new Keyword Tool is another free resource you can use to write better copy for your website. Using WordStream's new Keyword Tool as a guide - here's an example of how I'd write a little review for my new netbooks -
I bought two new Acer Notebooks today, both Eee PC 1101HA Seashell (though my are black) with 11 hours of battery life (though I 'm not sure that's true - since it depends on which of the 3 battery types came with the laptops - 3 cell, 6 cell, etc).
While at Best Buy, today, I was looking at the Samsung netbook which was a little more expensive, but didn't as far as I could tell, seem to have any better features - and it was about 70 dollars more than Acer Netbooks I decided to buy. True, the MSI Wind netbooks with 2GB of Ram built in, might seem, a better deal than the Acer Netbooks that I bought and had to add an extra GB of ram to; the reviews on MSI Wind netbooks in technical forums suggests a netbook will outperform many laptops that are more than 2 years old.
One more nifty feature of WordStream's Keyword tool is the ability to easily remove words from the keyword results.
All you have to do is hover over a keyword in a phrase and delete any term you don't want to be part of your results.
I could definitely see myself myself WordStream's new Keyword tool for SEO Analysis and copy writing.
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