One of the recent posts by Site Visibility informed that Google has updated their keyword suggestion tool. In fact, even we also noticed the same thing. The update tool will help you target local keywords during research.

Here's a screencapture of the Google Adword keyword Tool:

We all know that Wikipedia offers a huge list of information, which is quite helpful during topic and keyword research. The three most factors that contribute to this fact are user-generated, well-moderated and heavily interlinked.

According to one of the recent blog post at SEJ following are some of the Wikipedia visualization tools that can help in researching relevant keywords and topics.

All those who grieved the retirement of overture, can find some consolation in new section by Yahoo! Search Marketing Help Center now provides industry-specific keywords that could be related to your business! At the same time, it offers Industry-specific market research articles to help you get a deeper insight on a particular search.

SEMPO Institute by Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO) has come with the launch of their new course to help people improve their skills in keywords and copywriting. The course is meant for both beginners as well as professionals to enhance their accomplishments and adroitness in a competent manner.
“Supported by SEMPO , SEMPO Institute has been able to tap into the knowledge and experience of SEMPO’s members and sponsors to deliver courses which have developed best practices and standards. Our course authors consist of more than 35 industry leaders. Additional experts have peer-reviewed the courses to ensure that all the information is accurate and truly is a best practice.” – SEMPO Institute

Keyword Discovery has added “Question Phrases” to its list of searchable database. With the addition of this feature, users can now enter a keyword and get a list of related questions that have been asked instead of getting the list of related keywords. The features is really alluring and easy way to get new content ideas as well.

Snapshot of Question Phrases:

Google has launched a new keyword tool, namely the Search Based Keyword Tool. The tool comes up with keywords and landing pages that are extremely relevant to your website. What sets apart the Skool (Search Based Keyword Tool) from other Google tools is the fact that it gives you the keywords that you are presently missing out on in terms of search queries for your website's product or content.

Wordtracker has announced the launch of “Keyword Questions”, that allows the webmasters as well as users from the SEO world to find certain questions that are frequently asked by the visitors in the search engines. With the help of this tool, webmasters would be able to get answers to all the FAQs and can get interesting web copies to get plenty of traffic on their websites.

Recently, I had informed our readers about the new Search Volume Numbers, that Google had incorporated in the Google AdWords Keyword Tool. Now, what I came to realize from this new Google move was that, by displaying approximate search counts or search volume numbers, whichever way you want to see it, Google has effectively rendered the paid keyword tools such as 'Keyword Discovery' and 'WordTracker' almost useless.

Over at the Search Engine Herald, Noel has come up with a post that talks about a very little known topic of 'Keyword Mining'. It is a common known fact that, every website has it own web statistics. These statistics enable the Webmasters to get information about their website such as, the number of visitors, visiting frequency and other details as well.

Google has introduced the Approximate word counts in the Google AdWords keyword tool, with the color graphs, that until recently were the only indicators of the data in the keywords tool. When you perform a search on the keywords tool, you'll be presented with 'Approx Search Volume' and 'Approx Avg Search Volume' as data indicators along with the color graphs.