Where can I find unused keywords?

Thinking of trying the contrarian approach...

[intwo]

I've used the G keyword tool, and the Overture keyword tool, but is there a free tool out there that can find unused keywords (meaning: popular KW's that don't have ads running on them)?

Or if that's too much to ask, just some way to find keywords based on popularity of search?

On a side note, is it just me, or is the Webmasterworld.com site search facility absolutely terrible? It returns the worst results of any search I've ever seen! They oughtta whack a G search box in there instead.

Thanks!

I2

[shman]

Hi

when you find the place do let us know :)

[StrayPixel]

If I told you, I'd have competition.

^_^

[Ozdachs]

Not quite the same as finding words with NO bids at Google, but I subscribed to a database service last year that kept track of searches for different keywords on a number of different data bases. They also watch the bids at PPC sites. In the end they offer to compute the most traffic keywords which have the least competition.

It worked pretty well, but my clients are small businesses and didn’t need that much sophistication and analysis. The database access is fairly expensive (about $250/year), although they offer a free demo and daily, weekly, and monthly rates, too.

I’m off to dinner now, but tomorrow a.m. I’ll sticky mail the company name I used if it will help. I’ll be interested to see if other people post info on other approaches.

[eWhisper]

On a side note, is it just me, or is the Webmasterworld.com site search facility absolutely terrible? It returns the worst results of any search I've ever seen! They oughtta whack a G search box in there instead.

[webmasterworld.com...] post 4.

I doubt anyone would publish such a list, those KWs would not stay empty for long as many would rush up sites to promote them. If I had such a list, I certainly wouldn't make it publically available.

[intwo]

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum19/1572.htm post 4.

That is fantastic. Thanks heaps!

I doubt anyone would publish such a list, those KWs would not stay empty for long as many would rush up sites to promote them. If I had such a list, I certainly wouldn't make it publically available.

That, however, is unfortunate. And might explain why all the stickies I've gotten are for pay services.

Thanks to all who suggested, but Tracker and Analyzer are not what I had in mind.

Surely there's a simpler way to determine overall KW popularity? Didn't Lycos or somebody once have a top 40 or something? Wouldn't G have statistics like that published somewhere?

What happened to all those university kids that thought info should be free? Haven't they created an algo "for everyone"?

Don't mind me, I'm just dreaming. It's very late here.

I2