3 Cool Twitter Keyword Research Tools

When it comes to researching keywords for your next big project, you shouldn’t just focus on tools such as WordTracker. Times have changed, you see. A few years ago, you’d have to work hard to find keywords and content people were searching for. Not anymore with sites such as Twitter and Facebook making it so easy. Don’t get me wrong. There is a lot of value in using those premium tools to get your SEO campaigns going. At the same time, you can rely on services such as Twitter to find out what people are talking about at the moment. It’s like getting instant feedback and seeing what people desire and need in real time.

There are plenty of Twitter tools that you can take advantage of to do all kinds of things with Twitter. At some point, you are better off picking and choosing a few tools and use them to improve the quality of your keyword lists. Considering that a lot of these tools are for free, they are well worth a try. In fact, here are 3 Twitter research tools that come handy for your SEO research:

Topsy: in the past few months, I have started moving away from Google search and use Topsy as my main research tool. If I want a story on let’s say “iPhone,” Topsy makes finding those hot juicy story easy. It also can help you find influential users on Twitter and track trends.

Twendz: a real time topic tracking tool for Twitter that let’s you figure out what people are talking about on Twitter and use the information to optimize your keyword lists. You may even find new projects to work on by using this tool.

Social Mention: a powerful search engine that allows you to search through blogs, microblogs, comments, bookmarks, and everything in between for your favorite topic. It shows you top keywords related to your search and top users talking about your keywords. Very addictive tool.

There you have it. These 3 tools may be free, but they are quite powerful. You shouldn’t stop using those top premium SEO tools, but these Twitter tools do add value to your campaigns.