I have seen many people asking about free keyword tools and niche finders. There are a lot of great paid tools out there to help you drill down to a specific niche. These tools are great because they save you a lot of time. There are several free ones you can use that may take a little more manual digging to get to the right long tail keywords. Then there are some that take a little less work.

Free Niche Finders:

The Dogpile Searchspy lets you see what people are searching for in real time:

Code:

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/

eBay Keywords lets you see what terms people are looking for on eBay.

Code:

http://buy.ebay.com/

Yahoo Buzz shows topics and the top searches through Yahoo:

Code:

http://buy.ebay.com/

The Lycos top 50 shows the top 50 searched terms through Lycos:

Code:

http://50.lycos.com/#

Google Trends shows the top searches through out the day and is updated often:

Code:

http://www.google.com/trends

eBay pulse can help find niches:

Code:

http://pulse.ebay.com/

Shopping:

Code:

http://www.shopping.com/

Google Product Search:

Code:

http://www.google.com/products

Free Keyword Tools:

Wordtracker with Gtrends:

Code:

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends/

Wordpot:

Code:

http://www.wordpot.com/

Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery:

Code:

http://www.submitexpress.com/keytracker.php

Seobook:

Code:

http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

Google Search-Based:

Code:

http://www.google.com/sktool/#keywords?site=www.seobook.com/&spm=true&q=

7search:

Code:

http://conversion.7search.com/scripts/advertisertools/keywordsuggestion.aspx

Google Adwords tool:

Code:

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

Google Insights:

Code:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

Keyword Discovery:

Code:

http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html

Wordtracker Keyword Questions:

Code:

http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions/questions?seed=shoes&commit=Search

MSN Search Funnels:

Code:

http://adlab.microsoft.com/Search-Funnels/index.aspx?kwd=dell&direction=out&filter=top&filternum=5&newsearch=true

Spacky:

Code:

http://www.spacky.com/

Free Backlink Analyzers:

Analyze Backlinks:

Code:

http://www.analyzebacklinks.com/

Backlink Watch:

Code:

http://www.backlinkwatch.com/

Yahoo Site Explorer:

Code:

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

I hope I was able to help someone.

good jobs, they are really useful to me, hope everybody try and like them

I especially love the wordtracker questions URL. Thanks

Thanks, rep given -- awesome list of tools!

great post, I must say some people are really strange, here are some searches from dogpile......pvc catsuits??? my god half the searches are sex related hah

i just saw a search on dogpile : horses fucking men...wtf???