How to find the right keywords for a website SEO ?

[Expertrake438]

Hi!
I`we read a lot of articles about SEO and in most of them I found out that the most important step in SEO is to find the best keywords for my site and to optimize my site for those keywords. But I don`t know how to find these keywords: I`we tried to use google adwords keywords tool and market samurai (trial), but useless...
My biggest problem is that I can`t find out a good main keyword that describes my site:
My site is http://www.tutorialswindow.com - It`s a tutorial indexing site where people are coming to submit or to read tutorials.

Please give me some keyword suggestions
Thanks in advice!

[Tiarta]

I checked out your site, and I must say that it was pretty hard for me to understand what is the purpose of your site.

To have good SEO, there are a lot of basic things that will help, such as updating it regularly. With most search engines, key words are only effective if they are also listed on your site and relevant to the content on your site. I had a hard time figuring out what those should be. "Tutorial" should definitely be one; however, that is a less straight-forward term and not always intuitive. Any other versions of that word that are commonly utilized in your industry would work as well. Here are a few others I think may work, based on your website: "photoshop," "business applications," and "programming."

[?]

Use google keyword tool its by far the best!

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

It will help you find what people are searching for and your competition take into consideration the competition sometimes its best to go with a keyword that has medium search volume but low competition the one with high search volume and high competition.

[Micky]

I think this is best keyword i chosen for you. Tutorial Update Globally 18K searches via adword

Business Website
http://www.internationalarticle.com

[Joseph]

Free Keyword Resources
Below is a list of free keyword research tools:


Webmaster Toolkit Keyword Tool => http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/key...rch-tool.shtml

SEO 20/20 => http://www.seo2020.com/seo-tools/key...research-tool/

WordTracker FREE Keyword Tool => http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

SpyFu => http://www.spyfu.com/

Digital Point => http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
Nichebot Classic => http://www.nichebotclassic.com/
DomainCountry Keyword Tool => http://www.domaincountry.com/
WordPot => http://www.wordpot.com/
Freeaddlink => http://freeaddlink.com/domain/research.php
Daily “Top 500” Keywords => http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/keywords/

[Kim Cunnings]

There are a ton of
- Google AdWords Keyword Tool
- Related searches in Google, Bing and Ask
- Autocomplete feature in major SE's
- SemRush
- Keyword Discovery
- Wordtracker
- Word Mixer

Some other things to consider when doing keyword research:

- capitalize on misspelled words especially if the term is hard to spell
- look for keyword insights offline - pick up a trade magazine for your niche and get keyword insights from there
- pay attention to the number of searches and number of sites competing for the same keyword (found on Google keyword tool or Rank Tracker tool -see below)
- an even better approach to keyword research would be to calculate a KEI ratio for a keyword:

Search Volume (squared) / # of Competitors. This ratio helps you find most profitable SEO keywords that are popular among searchers yet relatively easy to rank well for.

Here is the kicker: you can use all the above keyword research methods, calculate KEI and then do keyword rank checks for your site with Rank Tracker software tool.

I won't post any links for the tool. You may wonder why...

A. for the sake of avoiding spam
B. I am sure you can find it online - its pretty popular and usually comes up in top search results.
C. you need to do research before choosing the right keyword tool, and hopefully this answer inspires you to do just that