The 5-in-1 Google Tool

What I would like to point out with this video is how you can combine 5 Google keyword sources (Google keyword suggestions, Google related searches, Google synonyms, Google Insights for search and Google search-based keyword tool) into 1 easy and convenient tool.

Using the Google tools directly can be an extremely troublesome process because you may have to copy and paste the keywords into another application. Some tools like the Google AdWords Keyword tool allows you to export keywords into a text file but not all Google tools have this feature.

Expand Your Google Keyword List with Multiple Countries

Did you know that you get a different set of keywords if you specified a different country in the Google keyword tools?

You will be amazed at how many more keyword suggestions you will get if you select more than one country. However, the Google keyword tools do not allow you to select more than one country at a time. If you wanted to get the keywords of the USA and UK, you would need to select the country in the form (if there is such an option) and submit the form twice!

The bottom line is, the Maverick Keyword Researcher saves you a lot of time and effort. Once you use our Google keyword tools, you won’t want to go back to Google to get your keyword suggestions any more.

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What is the Maverick Keyword Researcher?

It is a web-based keyword research application that is hosted on your own web server or web host. You may install it on your personal computer as long as you have a PHP-enabled web server installed.

What Can the Maverick Keyword Researcher Do?

• Brainstorm a virtually unlimited number of niche ideas for your online business.
• Uncover profitable niches by separating the goods ones from the duds.
• Generate keyword suggestions from Amazon, Ask, Google, Yahoo, Bing and other undisclosed sources.
• Get the Google search results, Google search volume, number of Google AdWords ads, average Google AdWords CPC, Google PageRank, KEI, R/S ratio and OCI of your keywords.
• Gain more control and flexibility of the Google Matching Options with the following options:
  • Broad
  • Phrase
  • Exact
• Gain more control and flexibility of the Google Search Volume with the following options:
  • Local Search Volume
  • Global Monthly Search Volume
• Gain more control and flexibility of the Google PageRank with the following options:
  • Highest Google PageRank on the first page of the search results
  • Average Google PageRank on the first page of the search results
  • Highest Google PageRank of the top 5 search results
  • Average Google PageRank of the top 5 search results
• Enables you to outsource the boring and tedious job of keyword research to someone else.

What Makes the Maverick Keyword Researcher Different?

1. You Can Finally Outsource Keyword Research!

I created this keyword research application because I was sick and tired of doing the keyword research myself. I wanted to be able to outsource my keyword research activities to my freelancers so that I can do more important things.

With desktop software, I had to deal with licensing issues because some software can only be installed on 1 or 2 computers and I found it very troublesome to activate the licenses on my freelancer’s computer because they are based overseas. I knew a web-based solution would solve this problem once and for all. You install it on your web host for all your freelancers to use without the drama of purchasing more licenses and managing them when you hire a new freelancer.

2. It is All-In-One

I wanted all the keyword sources to work seamlessly with one another and to have them all in one place to save me time and money. I did not want to have to copy and paste keywords from some web site, import a keyword file from another keyword tool or use a paid membership site to get my keywords.

3. Loads of Keyword Sources

Amazon, Ask, Google, Yahoo, Bing, undisclosed shopping sites, eBay, Alibaba and other search engines…. I dare you to find another keyword research tool with more keyword sources than the Maverick Keyword Researcher.

4. Flexibility is the Key

Other keyword research software try to force you to adopt their own proprietary SEO formulas. The Maverick Keyword Researcher allows you greater control and flexibility on how you choose to filter your keywords. Everyone has their own idea on what makes a good niche. That is why I included as many common SEO statistics like the R/S ratio, KEI, Google PageRank etc so that you may have greater control and perspective on your keywords.

I have also completed the user guide for this application and I hope to get feedback on both the user guide and application during the beta.

The public beta will begin once I have set up the newsletter and squeeze pages for the public beta.

Thanks to everyone who has shown support and encouragement during the development of this product. Let’s make the Maverick Keyword Researcher the best web-based keyword research application in the market!

I found a way to do it in PHP and it was not as hard as I thought. My tool saves a lot of time because I can get the OCI values of multiple keywords automatically one at a time.

If a keyword has commercial intent, the OCI value will be displayed as it is. If a keyword has no commercial intent, the OCI value will have a negative sign in front of it. I followed John’s format for this because it makes sense.

I am almost done with the Maverick Keyword Researcher. A couple more tweaks and bug fixes and it will be ready for launch.

The keyword research tools of the Maverick Keyword Researcher come in 3 general categories. The first bunch of tools are for generating ideas for a niche/topic. The second group of tools are for getting as many alternative keywords of a niche. The last group is for analyzing the real-world statistics of the keywords.

Saved Searches

Every keyword search you make will be automatically saved into text files. I am working on a project module that assigns keywords to a project. The screen shots above do not have that at the moment. I added a lot jquery effects to make the interface more user-friendly. You may check out the list of keywords, download the keyword files and mass delete them with a few clicks of the mouse. The table design was inspired by WordPress.

Non-Google Search Engines

There are a lot of top searches and buzz lists from some non-Google search engines. I won’t reveal these search engines because I don’t want to receive another letter from them. The keywords from this tool generates the most popular keywords that are being searched on the internet through non-Google search engines.

Google AdWords Keyword Suggestions

Did you know that you get a different set of keywords if you select a different country from the Google AdWords Tool? That was what I discovered. I created a custom tool to import as many keywords from Google AdWords by selecting multiple countries. You may select up to 233 countries but it would take a long time. Most of the keywords are repeated but you may find a couple of gems in there. Usually, I simply click on the “popular countries” link to get keywords from the most popular countries.

Here’s a preview of the Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool:

You need to be gentle with this tool because Google does not like it when you use their free tools too frequently. I created a random search timer that spaces out the import queries every 15 to 30 seconds.

User Accounts, Installation, Password Reminders, Login etc

The first public version of the Maverick Keyword Researcher will not use a MySQL database to store its data. I have developed it to use text files for the time being. It is easier to sort keywords with MySQL than text files. So the first version will have limited sorting features.

The installer is pretty straightforward. You upload all the files to your web server or your local server and launch index.php. The installer will make sure you have certain files and folders with the right permissions. Since we will be using text files in version 1, we need to set the file permissions of a couple of folders and the text files in them. This is the troublesome part but it is easier than creating a database in cPanel.

Maverick Keywords Researcher will be encrypted with ionCube’s PHP Encoder. The industry’s top 2 PHP encoders are Zend and ionCube. Most web hosts have them installed by default. If not, they should be able to install it on your web server for you if you ask them to.

I am thinking of making it more user-friendly in future releases by using ionCube’s Package Foundry. This software will help you to upload and and configure all the folder and file permissions. It may be able to install the ionCube loaders on your web server if you don’t have it installed. I will purchase ionCube’s Package Foundry with the initial sales of this product. I also need to upgrade my ionCube PHP Encoder to a better version to generate license files and stop the licenses of customers who have refunded. I could also give away free trials with limited licenses.

Google Keyword Research

I combined a few Google keyword tools on a single page. I am working on adding Google’s Search-based Keyword Tool too. At the moment, my Google tool grabs related keywords from Google.com home page (Google Suggestions), Google’s related searches, Google Synonyms and Google Insights for Search.

I discovered a way to generate more keywords by searching multiple countries. Most countries will give you duplicate results but if you select the most popular countries (I got this list from the countries listed at the top of Google’s country drop down lists…), you should be able to get a very nice list of keywords. If you’re up for it, you could select all 233 Google-supported countries.

I am still working on getting keyword suggestions from Google AdWords. The Google AdWords Keyword Tool has to be on a different page because it requires a captcha. It would be irritating for the users to mix it with the other Google tools that don’t require a captcha.

KwBrowse Keyword Research

This KwBrowse tool took me a long time to complete. I could not find a way to automate it completely because it returns a lot of unrelated keywords. I created a select box on the right to filter out the unwanted keywords that are returned from the searches.

It isn’t easy or fast to get a complete keyword list from KwBrowse but it is worth the effort because you will get a huge list of related keywords.

Wordtracker Keyword Research

Wordtracker has a free keyword tool that generates the top 100 related keywords of the keyword you enter in their form. Sometimes, this keyword tool requires a captcha before you are allowed to search. I have programmed the Maverick Keyword Researcher to deal with that issue. The problem with a lot of free keyword tools online is that they don’t give you an easy way to copy and paste the keywords. With my tool, they are returned nicely in a text file.

Others…

I created a list of categories that can be easily copied and pasted for mySimon and Shopping.com. You could grab these keywords and find potential niches for your online business. This list has over 500 keywords and you should be able to find a few profitable niches in there.

I also created keyword suggestions from Alibaba, Ask and Yahoo. Some of the keyword suggestions cannot be copied and pasted in the browser. For example, if you enter a keyword at Yahoo.com or Google.com, the web page returns a list of related keywords in your browser. The only way to get that list manually is to type the keywords you see on the screen to some application on your computer. That’s just stupid and a waste of time. I figured out a way to get these keyword suggestions quickly and easily.

Alibaba, Ask, Yahoo and Google all have a suggestion list when you type in a keyword at their home page. Ask.com has additional keyword suggestion on their search pages and I have added those into the Maverick Keyword Researcher too.

I am thinking of adding keyword suggestions from eBay and DHgate.com. Another source would be Keyword Discovery. For version 1.0, all the keyword sources would be free. I might include paid keyword sources from Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery and Wordze in the future. Maybe I could make it a monthly subscription thing at a lower rate than the amount you pay for these keyword tools every month.

You need a Google AdWords account to retrieve Google.com’s statistics. You would assume that the information you get from the software would be similar to what you would get if you check it out at Google AdWords, right? Unfortunately, there is a bug with Keywords Analyzer 7.68, which is the latest version at the time of this post. This software has been around for quite a few years and it is disappointing that it still has bugs like this.

For this example, I did a search on the keyword “acuvue”, in quotes for Google’s phrase matching. Keywords Analyzer gave me 550000 searches and 791000 search results. This made the KEI extremely high. There is something seriously wrong here.

I did a check for the keyword at the Google AdWords keyword tool. What I found was the monthly search count for the phrase match of “acuvue” was only 301000. Keywords Analyzer‘s stats must be wrong. I sent a support ticket to the author of the software he said, “At this point KA does not keep track where the data was downloaded so it doesn”t know whether it needs to multiply by 30 or not”.

Wow! You don’t know where the data was downloaded from? I thought I selected Google and entered my Google AdWords account information.

Another problem with this software is it does not display the CPC prices of the keywords in the main window. You need to click on another button to get the CPC prices of the keywords. You cannot compare and sort the keywords by CPC and that is frustrating for me.

Keywords Analyzer seems like a great software if you do some PPC arbitrage. You may scan for the CPC prices from some PPC search engines to find potential keywords to bid on. Other than Google.com, you may use a few other keyword sources for your searches.

Conclusion

Save your money. There should be better keyword research software.